Backend Software Engineer

Mantech seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Backend Software Engineer to join our team in Ft. Meade, MD.

In this role, you will develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Responsible for analyzing user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements, design and coding new software or modifying existing software and debugging existing software and correcting defects.
• Design and develop new backend components or enhance existing software using best-in-class tools and languages.
• Responsible for developing simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories and will design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries.
• Will make recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards and will develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards.
• Responsible for designing or implementing complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints.  Will design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Will partner with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university; An additional 4 years of related experience might be substituted for a degree.
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with Python.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing applications which will be deployed in containers using Docker and Kubernetes

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Current/Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.
• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.