Software Engineering Lead

2 weeks ago


Hanscom AFB, United States Kessel Run Full time

**Who We Are**

Kessel Run is a U.S. Air Force unit revolutionizing Department of Defense (DoD) software development, acquisition, delivery, and sustainment. We aim to sense and respond to conflict in any domain, anytime, anywhere.

Yes, we are THE Air Force. If hired, you will join us as a civilian working alongside uniformed Airmen.

Serve your country and help us solve our nation's toughest, most complex challenges.

**The Position**

**What You Will Do**

**Who You Are**
- You have 5+ years of Software Development experience with demonstrable experience leading teams; hands-on experience building and maintaining production software using agile and lean methodologies and 12-factor principles in fast-paced product organizations.
- You have strong technical skills with Spring, SpringBoot, React, and API design
- You earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar.
- You have experience with virtualization, including containers and orchestration.
- You have strong technical and/or architectural experiences.
- You can translate the architectural direction into concrete, written architectural requirements to vendors, can monitor and assess vendor performance, and can take corrective action rapidly if needed.
- Superb communication skills, both written and oral, and exceptional time management.
- You don't mind working in older systems and technologies, even though the target is to re-architect, rebuild, virtualize and refresh them.
- You have experience working with data/integration partners.
- You have experience supervising and mentoring others.
- A service mentality - you look to help others.
- You value the mission of Kessel Run and the U.S. Air Force
- You take extreme ownership of the excellence of your work and performance
- You believe in creative, integrated teamwork and diversity of thought
- You foster and practice integrity and thought leadership.
- Bonus: You have mixed experience working for the government and industry, and is DevSecOps.
- Bonus: You have implemented or can articulate disaster recovery and continuity of operations.

**What Your Responsibilities Will Be**
- Breaking down requirements, creating plans and executing them are mandatory skills.
- Architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.
- Working with resources at your disposal, identifying areas of opportunity; weak points and correcting them, including external contracting companies that are partners with the Air Force outsourcing development and other services.
- Modernizing systems, off-the-shelf software or building in-house software, but also reshaping and upholding agile practices, step-by-step, and challenging bureaucracy and old waterfall methodologies. You will define engineering standards and best practices, fostering a continuous improvement mindset with our engineering staff.
- Growing and mentoring junior engineers and mentoring functional partners without modern, industry-leading software and technology experience.
- Communicating, both written and verbal, with non-technical peers and stakeholders to develop strategies.
- Driving teams to develop automated testing, testing plans and encouraging test-driven development culture.

**Locations**
- Boston, MA (Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford, MA)
- Langley, VA

**Additional Information**

This is a Federal civilian service position within the United States Air Force. We are hiring at the equivalent of a GS-14 up to GS-15 level for this position. This means you can expect a base salary of $104,604 to $159,950 **multiplied by your locality rate**, based on your experience. You can find your locality definition here and see the pay tables for the GS scale here. Our headquarters is located at Hanscom AFB, MA which would translate to a range from $138,046 to $191,900.

We also provide generous paid time off, health and retirement benefits, compressed work schedules, leave accrual—and so much more. There are also opportunities to diversify your employment experience in a variety of roles and levels after your initial appointment.

**You MUST be a U.S. citizen to apply** (does not include permanent residents), and you must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance (see eligibility requirements here).

Federal Service also requires adherence to Selective Service registration for male applicants.



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