Software Engineer

About Us

Be a part of a winning team that provides technical solutions with integrity. Cortina is a government contractor providing technical professional services. But we are so much more than that!

Cortina is very proud of the reach-back it offers to the local community. Not only that, we LOVE our employees and do all we can to ensure they have a great work experience. Come join a company that believes in being a part of something bigger than themselves!

Description

This role is responsible for the support of technical solutions, designs, and execution of yearly software build deliveries and integration. The Software Engineer will provide direction associated with analysis of system performance, remediation of issues, and modernization / performance improvements of the current and future planned software builds.

The Software Engineer will be responsible for building and maintaining the Deficiencies within Program related deliverables. This includes building new features, improving the existing features, and ensuring that the platform works as intended. The Software Engineer will work closely with the Engineering Team to build new features, improve existing features, and ensure that the platform works as intended.

The Software Engineer will have strong communication and team building skills and embrace modern development processes and techniques that improve product quality and team productivity. The ability to listen with empathy and seek to understand the perspective of others is one of the keys to success within our program teams and the customer. Individuals who love to learn and seek new challenges are highly valued.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in a STEM field
  


• Active Secret Security Clearance with eligibility for TS/SCI


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills


• Develop and maintain strong customer relationships.


• Write unit tests to verify that code works as intended.


• Write performance tests to monitor resource usage.


• Write documentation to describe how code works.


• Investigate issues (using system logs, source code inspection, database querying, etc.)


• Support program meetings in developing root cause and corrective actions.


• Collaborate with Program engineering for Software build and System improvements.


• Experience in post processing data analysis (MATLAB)


• Experience operating within a Linux-based environment.


• Familiar with Agile methodologies, Scrum, and CI/CD


• Solid understanding of real-time operating systems (RTOS)


• Experience in embedded programming


• Familiarity with Git, ClearCase, SVN, or similar


• Familiarity with the Python, Perl, BASH, and KSH languages.


• U.S. Citizenship

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of C++ software development

As our team members work on government sites, all potential candidates are subject to a background screening that fully complies with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.