Four Sea Group
Senior Software Engineer
Colorado Springs, CO · Senior
No sponsorship$194k-$262kDetected 20 days ago
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About the role
- The ideal candidate brings deep software engineering expertise, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to guide complex work in secure, high-performance environments while mentoring other engineers and influencing technical direction.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex software workstreams spanning multiple components, services, or engineering teams.
- Define and drive technical approaches related to architecture, performance, reliability, maintainability, and testability.
- Develop, enhance, and sustain complex software solutions in support of mission-critical systems.
- Collaborate with systems engineers, test teams, integration teams, and program stakeholders to support successful execution.
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to engineers and technical leads across the team.
- Maintain awareness of customer priorities, program evolution, and technical opportunity areas to support future program needs and organizational growth.
Requirements
- Experience with Git or comparable distributed version control systems.
- Experience with software debugging, root cause analysis, automated testing, and technical tradeoff analysis.
- Experience with service integration, APIs, or distributed application behavior where relevant to the environment.
- Experience working in Agile or iterative development environments.
- Experience with multithreaded development, low-latency systems, or high-performance compute environments.
- Experience with containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, or DevSecOps tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab, or similar platforms.
- Experience with secure software development in defense, aerospace, ISR, sensor, radar, or other mission-critical environments.
Nice to have
- This role works across ambiguous technical challenges, defines engineering approaches that others follow, and helps improve reliability, scalability, quality, and delivery performance across teams or program areas.
- Troubleshoot and resolve high-complexity software issues, integration challenges, and cross-team dependencies.
- Establish or improve software patterns, standards, and engineering practices that strengthen execution quality.
- Participate in technical planning, estimation, roadmap development, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Identify technical risks, communicate tradeoffs, and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience leading complex technical efforts across multiple components, systems, teams, or program areas.
Compensation
- The salary range for this role is $193,700.00 - $262,000.00 per year.
- The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels.
- Application Deadline: This position is expected to remain open through July 31, 2026.
- The company may adjust this deadline based on business needs and will update the posting as appropriate.
Benefits
- Our model is intentionally built to keep more value with employees through salary, retirement, benefits, and ownership.
Company info
- This position is expected to remain open through July 31, 2026.
- The company may adjust this deadline based on business needs and will update the posting as appropriate.
- We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead complex, high-impact software efforts supporting mission-critical programs.
- Four Sea Group is a 100% employee-owned technical mission support company based in Denver, Colorado.
- Founded by an aerospace industry veteran and PhD astrophysicist, we support complex defense, space, software, systems, and mission-focused programs for government and industry partners.
Equal opportunity
- Four Sea Group is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital or familial status, age, disability, veteran status, military service or application for military service.
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