Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

MORSE Corp is an employee owned, small business based in Cambridge, MA, Arlington, VA, and Seattle, WA with a history of fielding cutting-edge technology. MORSE boasts a specially selected team of scientists, engineers, and software developers to deliver best-in-class technical solutions that solve difficult multidisciplinary problems faced by the US National Security Ecosystem.

MORSE is seeking a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer to join one or more projects in big data, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicle mission planning, decision systems, and their accompanying cloud applications. Our applications provide cutting-edge, algorithmic-based simulation, situational awareness, machine learning, analysis, and mission planning capabilities to a wide variety of DoD customers. As a technical lead of a small interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and software developers, you will lead Agile development processes and embrace DevSecOps to ensure fast and secure delivery of software services.

Responsibilities:

Lead Agile teams of 3-8 engineers and scientists

Plan sprints, delegate tasking, and drive technical execution

• Communicate with customers to elicit requirements, provide updates, and iterate through technical decisions

Develop and maintain web applications hosted on cloud infrastructure

Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to containerize applications for cloud deployment

Implement web page UIs from design documents

Write backend APIs that interact with cloud services

Work closely with team members to design, develop, and deploy software applications

Stay up-to-date with the latest web development and cloud computing trends

Contribute to the development of new code bases that are heavily object-oriented, extensible, and maintainable

Skills and Requirements:

U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance (Secret or Top Secret)

5+ years of software engineering experience with 1+ years leading technical teams

Experience with React and front end development

Experience with Python

Knowledge of Cloud technologies, including AWS, Azure, or GCP

Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes

Experience with Agile development

BS or MS in computer science or equivalent degree, or significant professional experience

Desired Skills:

Experience with HCI and web design

Experience with microservice architecture

Experience with IAC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation

Experience with scalable cloud infrastructure

MORSE Corp’s salary range for this role carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to, prior experience, education, skills and expertise, location, internal equity, and other factors that are job related and consistent with business need. Therefore, final offer amounts may vary from the amount stated. Depending on role eligibility, total compensation may also include bonus, stock, 401(k) match, paid time off, medical, dental, vision and life insurance.

Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year. MORSE maintains an “open” leave policy that does not restrict exempt, regular full-time employees to a specific number of paid sick or vacation days. However, this policy is not an “unlimited” paid leave policy.

Compensation

$100,000—$190,000 USD

The team at MORSE takes pride in being the smart team that is easy to work with. We focus on steady, long-term success with an emphasis on exceptionalism and delivering mission-critical impact to our customers. For more information, please visit www.morsecorp.com.