System Software Engineer, Level II, Washington, D.C. area, Current Job Openings, Valex LLC

Current Job Openings

System Software Engineer, Level II, Washington, D.C. area

A challenging position in computer software engineering. We are looking for an innovative software engineer who will drive all aspects of the software development lifecycle: requirements, design, development, test, and release to customer success.

Must have a minimum of 5 years of full-time experience in computer software engineering.

The candidates for this position should be able to perform the following duties:

Develop innovative software in small teams using cutting-edge technologies;
Perform monitoring and performance tuning;
Collaborate with program managers and prospects to gather and define requirements;
Deliver projects on-time and to specification with an appropriate level of quality;
Develop automated functional tests;
Set operational specifications and formulate software requirements;
Collaborate with technical writers to create customer-relevant documentation;

Essential Skills:

C/C++;
MS Windows and UNIX/Linux software development environment;
Visual Studio Suite, gcc, g++, make, gmake, emacs, vi;
Dynamic linking and loading;
Multithreaded applications;
Networking and Distributed computing;
Inter Process Communication;
Debugging tools: gdb, strace, valgrind, totalveiw, etc;
UNIX shell scripting;
SQL server, Postgres SQL;
Experience with version control tools: CVS, SVN;
Effective verbal and written communication skills.

Knowledge of the following operating systems and platforms:

UNIX / Linux
MS Windows

Other:

Experience with Perl/Python is a plus;
Must complete a Technical Assessment;