Specialist, Software Engineering (23163)

Job Title: Specialist Software Engineering

Job Code:23163

Job Location: Lynchburg VA or Rochester NY

Job Schedule: 9/80;Employees work 9 out of every 14 days totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies Inc. provides missioncritical communications solutions that give our customers a clear advantage making them safer faster and more effective. Our public safety and professional communications business sector is focused on radio and software products that serve first responders and commercial fleet users. As part of our team you will design and develop cuttingedge public safety products impacting millions of people for our critical communication radio systems used by police fire EMS military and commercial customers throughout the world.

We are looking for a software engineer to join a product development team chartered with high performance backend engines/servers that serve as the backbone on a land mobile radio system paired with featurerich user interfaces as well. Our software runs 365 days a year 24 hours a day in demanding environments such as 911 dispatch centers naval ships military bases and multistate public utility operation centers. We take pride in the fact that our customers depend on our software during the worst of times (natural disasters severe weather crime sprees wildfires evacuations personal tragedies etc.).

Successful candidate will be willing to develop large scale production software in a disciplined engineering environment. In this role you will focus on both backend service layer development as well as frontend user interface features. You will embrace the writing of automated tests in parallel with feature development taking ownership of product quality and supporting our DevOps environment. This position requires little to no travel.

Essential Functions:

• As a development team member the successful candidate will be personally responsible for:
  • Implementation of software components in an agile development environment
  • Writing automated tests to verify functionality
  • Participating in & creating requirements design and code reviews
  • Generating & maintaining personal schedules milestones and deliveries
  • Providing input for release notes and other technical documentation (users manuals etc.)
  • Use of configuration management tools for issue tracking and version control

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Database experience(SQL Server Sybase MongoDB etc.).
• Java application programing experience (especially server/desktop environments).

Preferred Additional Skills:

• BS/MS degree in Software Engineering Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Information Security Mathematics or equivalent work experience with a minimum 4 years of relevant professional development (2 with MS degree)
• Agile/scrum/Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline experience (ex:Jenkins Bamboo etc.)
• DevOps experience
• Distributed version control experience (ex: Git)
• Full stack experience (both frontend GUI development & backend business logic programming)
• Knowledge of multiprocessor & multithreaded application development best practices
• Automated testing experience (unit tests functional/product level automation etc.)
• Embedded software development (ex: C C)
• Microsoft Windows application programing (C# C Microsoft .NET etc.)
• Cloudbased software development (ex: AWS Azure NoSQL databases IoT frameworks etc.)
• Frontend web development (ex: Angular Bootstrap CSS HTML Javascript)
• Backend web development (ex: Java core)
• Lifelong learner; willing to continuously sharpen ones skillsets
• Strong communication skills both written and oral
• Excellent time management and problemsolving skills

In compliance with pay transparency requirements the salary range for this role is $83000 $154000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. 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 companypaid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire schedule type and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

The application window for this requisition is anticipated to close 7/21/2025.