Senior Software Engineer

About This Role

Join CTI as a Senior Software Engineer focusing on Frontend/UI development to design and implement interfaces for operators and analysts, visualizing and acting on mission-critical data. This role involves full project lifecycle participation and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain USSOCOM’s MCS/COP government-owned software solution
• Own and evolve the frontend architecture for a large-scale React-based mission control application
• Design and maintain reusable UI components, patterns, and design systems to ensure consistency and scalability
• Lead a team of junior and senior software engineers
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship for frontend and full-stack engineers, with emphasis on UI quality and maintainability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Partner closely with UX/design, backend, and systems engineers to translate complex mission workflows into intuitive user interfaces
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Implement frontend-focused testing strategies, including component, integration, and UI behavior testing

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in software development, computer science, or a related field
• Minimum 7 years of professional software development experience, including significant ownership of frontend or UI-heavy applications
• Advanced experience building large-scale React applications using modern patterns (functional components, hooks, context, Redux Toolkit, and TypeScript)
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, state management strategies, and component-based design
• Excellent development and leadership abilities
• Experience leading technical decisions, including the ability to break down problems, identify solutions, and communicate the process and conclusions to an engineering team
• Active U.S. government Top Secret security clearance and SCI eligible (TS/SCI)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software development, computer science, or a related field
• Minimum 7 years of professional software development experience, including significant ownership of frontend or UI-heavy applications

Nice to Have

• Master's degree in software development, computer science, or a related field
• Ability to communicate effectively via multiple mediums and with management, co-workers, and customers, both technical and non-technical
• Ability to write clean code and leverage best practices for implementation, documentation, and testing
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases
• Passion for developing customer-focused solutions
• Experience designing or contributing to shared UI component libraries or design systems
• Proficient with container-based software solutions such as Docker/Kubernetes, gateway managers such as Envoy/nginx, and security authentication systems such as Active Directory and Keycloak
• Microservices and/or distributed computing development experience
• Experience with monorepo and microfrontend architecture
• Experience visualizing complex data sets or operational workflows in web-based user interfaces
• Experience with Tactical Assault Kit, Common Operational Picture (COP) platforms, and working with government teams

Skills

* Required skills