Software Engineer

About the role

Requisition ID: 4540

Standard Title:

Required Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

Work Type: On-Site

Shift: First

Referral Eligibility: Eligible

U.S. Citizenship Required? Yes

Position Summary

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Software Engineer who develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements. The role involves working individually or as part of a team to review and test software components for adherence to design requirements, document test results, and resolve software problem reports. The Software Engineer utilizes appropriate software development and design methodologies and provides input to system design including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, and requirements analysis from system level to individual components.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.

Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features.

Debug existing software and correct defects.

Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.

Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories.

Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.

Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards.

Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components.

Write or review software and system documentation.

Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, conferring with users or system engineers, analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes, and investigating problem areas.

Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project.

Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, or improve performance.

Design, develop and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design.

Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries.

Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure work is completed according to software development process constraints.

Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints.

Perform quality control on team products.

Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and obtain information on project limitations, capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces.

Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met.

Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.

Required Qualifications

Fourteen (14) years of experience as a Software Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university.

Four (4) years of additional Software Engineer experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Experience with Go, Python, Terraform, and AWS.

Preferred Qualifications

Not specified.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university with 14 years as a Software Engineer.

No bachelor's degree with 18 years as a Software Engineer (14 + 4 years additional experience substituting for degree).

Required Certifications

None specified.

Required Security Clearance

Active Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

Pay & Benefit Highlights Compensation

Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).

Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.

Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).

Health

100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.

100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

Income Protection

100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.

100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.

100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).

100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.

Retirement

401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).

401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.

Leave

Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).

11 paid floating holidays.

Work-Life Balance

Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).