Defense Unicorns is seeking a Full-stack Software Engineer with a deep passion for understanding mission heroes. You'll be joining Defense Unicorns’ US Navy team and be responsible for designing and implementing scalable solutions, owning end-to-end project delivery, and ensuring usability of a new application. In this role you will work closely with other software engineers, end users, designers, and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities:- Develop the application UI ensuring the use of best practices, clean code, and high-quality standards
- Continually implement features and functionality to enhance the user experience
- Collaborate with designers, stakeholders, and product managers to architect and design a UI that meets the needs of our users
- Ensure project code is well tested using appropriate unit, integration, and user acceptance tests as appropriate to ensure the reliability and robustness of the application
- Proactively identify and resolve ambiguity in product requirements
- Integrate software products with existing defense systems, ensuring seamless interoperability and adherence to security protocols
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in UI development, and apply this knowledge to improve our products
- Work with engineers internal to the company, and within the open source community on feature and bug fix requests
- Comfortable in an asynchronous, all remote environment communicating via Gather, Slack, GitHub, and GitLab
Travel Expectations/Requirements: 10-15%
The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.
Preferred Experience and Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience with full-stack development teams
- Proficient in JavaScript and ASP.NET technologies, with experience in front-end frameworks such as Svelte, HTML, and CSS; familiarity with TypeScript is a plus
- Hands-on experience modernizing legacy .NET systems, including migrating business logic, refactoring and enhancing APIs, containerizing applications, and establishing observability and monitoring pipelines
- Familiarity with continuous delivery, distributed systems and architecture, containerization, and cloud native applications (Kubernetes, Helm, etc..
- Familiarity with UI/UX design principles, tools, and systems
- Proven ability to analyze complex problems, propose innovative solutions, and implement them effectively
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities
- Ability to work independently, manage time efficiently, and thrive in a remote work setup.
Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience. Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.
Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.
What We DoWe create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.
Who We ServeDefense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.
What We Work On- Kubernetes
- Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
- Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
- Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
- GitOps
- Containers
- CNCF projects and open source products and packages
- Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
- Building and improving security delivery
- Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Year’s Day)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed.
At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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Defense Unicorns Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Office
555 E Pikes Peak Ave, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, 80903
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