Software Development Senior Specialist

Job Description

Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.
Job Title: Senior Specialist, Software Engineering
L3Harris is seeking highly skilled and motivated software engineering professionals to work in a dynamic classified environment to implement core functionality to support customization and UI teams by creating modular and generic services and REST endpoints. Working with technical Leads (TL) and Subject Matter Experts (SME) to design and implement new features. This team is primarily responsible for Java code and the PostgreSQL database. Successful candidates will join a development team in Ground Software and Image Science discipline, directly supporting solutions developed by L3Harris’s Space Ground Solutions (SGS) Group.
 
Maintain and add features to existing backend services. 
Design and implement new backend services. 
Maintain and create documentation about backend services and procedures. 
Provide daily status on work in the form of scrum updates and/or comments in JIRA/Bitbucket. 
Participate in software design, code reviews, testing, and configuration management processes 
Ensure software solutions meet mission, security, and performance requirements 
 
 
Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related STEM field and six years’ experience; Experience with Java, preferably Java 11 or newer. 
Experience writing unit tests, preferably JUnit and Mockito. 
Experience with SQL, preferably PostgreSQL. 
Experience with Linux. 
Experience with Java build tools, preferably Maven. 
Experience with Java IDEs, preferably Netbeans. 
Experience with collaboration software like Bitbucket or Gitlab. 
Experience with continuous integration (CI) software like Jenkins. 
Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI or SCI eligibility 
 
 
Experience in Java Enterprise development highly desired, preferably JBoss/Wildfly.  
Experience with scripting languages like Bash/Groovy/Python. 
Experience in C++. 
Experience with geospatial data and satellite imagery. 
Experience with OGC web services like WFS/WMS. 
L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The application window for this position will close on 11/1/2026.
 
#All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.
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