Software Development (JAVA)

Peraton is looking for a Senior Java Software Engineer in Melbourne, FL to join our satellite ground terminal application development supporting our Intelligence Community and DoD customers. You will become a member of our integrated team of talented, high-performing engineers developing, testing, fielding, and maintaining our Java-based ground terminal applications. As part of this team, your work will enable critical satellite communications, emerging services, and distributed computing technologies providing reliable data exchange with multiple satellite platforms across several ground terminal locations. Key areas of support include the development of new system interfaces, integration of new system hardware, migration to updated infrastructure services, testing of system enhancements, and direct support of emerging customer needs.

Responsibilities of Position:

Design, develop, test, and maintain Java software components implementing our distributed ground terminal application. Critical technologies include remote systems network communications, event-driven and state-driven response management, hardware interface management, error logging, and exception handling.
• Perform all aspects of software engineering required to implement highly integrated and internetworked hardware and software systems.
• Perform software requirements analysis, develop new component architectures, software design, programming, and integration of new services at the unit, module, component, and system levels.
• Work with the customer and application users to identify emerging needs and user interactions to define new system and application-level needs.
• Work with Ground Terminal (GT) Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to design, develop, and maintain GT management software systems.
• Adhere to customer guidance, security requirements, open standards, modern software development best practices, and Industry standards to the extent that operational requirements will allow.
• Provide technical reports, white papers and other documentation as required to document all software engineering service activities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience in Java (minimum of Java 17) including usage of Stream APIs, Future APIs, Lambdas, Records, and other modern Java development features.
• Must be a US Citizen
• This position requires the candidate be capable of obtaining a U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI clearance and pass a polygraph.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building applications in Spring Framework/Spring Boot and Swing.
• Experience with Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) and hibernate.
• Experience with SQL relational databases especially MariaDB.
• Experience with JavaScript, Angular, and/or Go.
• Experience with cloud application development, especially AWS.
• Experience developing and testing software that directly interacts with hardware components such as modems, antennas, timing equipment, etc.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.