Mid-Level Software Engineer

Riverside Overview

Riverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. We provide high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the country’s most challenging technical problems. All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship.

Position Overview

Riverside Research is seeking a Software Engineer (Mid-level) with good experience to work in our Lexington, MA office. We are searching for a candidate that has worked in an environment with good software culture, promoting best practices and processes. We seek a motivated and collaborative employee who will be comfortable working within a cohesive software development team. This candidate will implement features and services in our software system, assist in the planning of designs, write code to fix bugs and expand functionality, and help to maintain a software system that includes multiple services, components, and clients, including a web client and a client-server thick client.

While no clearance is required as a prerequisite for this position it is a desired attribute. Without one, a candidate should be prepared and able to go through the process to obtain one as soon as possible after hiring.

Responsibilities

• Some level of participation in most parts of the software development life cycle, including providing input or review during feature conception and requirements generation as well as software architecture and design, implementation, build, deployment, testing, and support.
• Areas of focus may include some targeted areas of application architecture and software design, user-interface and experience , client-side and server-side development involving Spring, web application development, testing frameworks, and understanding and integrating with devops tools.
• Collaborate with project manager and other development team members to continue to support and develop a robust, high-quality software system that can be accessed on both desktop environments and web clients, with an eye for extensibility to leverage and display different types of data in the future.
• Ability to work directly with databases and other data stores in order to collect information and potentially perform certain levels of statistical analysis.
• Some interaction with stakeholders, customers, and users, or their capabilities and requirements documents, to understand operational strengths and weaknesses and help define roadmap and future focus areas for the software system.
• On occasion, provide direct customer support and technical assistance to users of the software.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

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Desired Qualitifcations and Skills :

Global Comp

$90,000 - $190,000 This represents the typical compensation range for this position based on experience, location and other factors.

Closing Statement

Riverside Research Institute is a not-for-profit, technology-oriented defense company, where service to our customers and support of our staff is our overall mission. Riverside is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. Riverside offers comprehensive compensation and benefit packages to our employees. Riverside bases its employment decisions solely on technical experience, qualifications and other job-related criteria related to our organizational purpose as a not-for-profit company, and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran’s status or any other status legally protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.