Early Career Full Stack Software Engineer - NASA NTTS
Qualified Technical Services, Mountain View, CA, United States
Work Location: NASA Ames Research Center - Mountain View, CA
Minimum Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
JOB DESCRIPTION - Early Career Full Stack Software Engineer - NASA NTTS
QTS is looking for an Early Career, Full Stack Software Engineer to develop new capabilities and extend the existing features of the NASA Technology Transfer System (NTTS) software platform of both public and internal web portal applications, custom built workflow, data consolidation, integration, search engines, and reporting tools. Must be a motivated team player and able to work independently in a small agile software development team.
Join an agile technical team as an early career, full stack software engineer working on diverse range of NASA web-enabled IT/data systems for supporting and streamlining technology transfer. The early career software engineer will be immersed to the full NASA agile lifecycle software engineering and full-stack development process, splitting time between two NASA projects: (1) providing enhancements to the NTTS software platform and suite of both public and internal web portal applications, custom built workflow, data consolidation, integration, search engines, and reporting tools, and (2) supporting the development of the National Campaign’s test infrastructure, including data integration and enhancing existing software applications.
Project Description:
The NASA Technology Transfer System (NTTS) is a suite of data systems, web applications, and IT infrastructure for the Agency’s Technology Transfer (T2) program containing 60,000+ technology portfolios supporting all ten NASA field centers and HQ. NTTS enterprise system utilizes custom built workflows, reporting, data consolidation, integration, and highly configurable search engines, to manage NASA’s technology transfer process, which includes reporting of new technologies, protecting intellectual properties (e.g., patents), and commercializing technologies through various technology licenses, software releases, spinoffs, and success stories.
Additional information available at NTTS general public Technology Transfer web portal: https://technology.nasa.gov
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other software intensive disciplines
Year(s) of Experience: Up to 2 years of technical work including the time spent on academic software development and/or contribution to open-source software projects
Citizenship: ***Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident***
Qualifications, Skills and Traits:
- JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON. Knowledge of Angular framework is a plus.
- PHP or Python
- Practical knowledge of asynchronous communication between client/server
- Experience developing web applications on Linux based platforms as well as using UNIX/Linux command line interface (CLI) and scripting languages such as Bash
- NoSQL databases such MongoDB
- Knowledge of Virtual Machines (VM) and/or Container technologies (i.e., Oracle VirtualBox, Docker Containers, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Configuration management experience with systems such as git, bitbucket
- Strong verbal and written communication, particularly writing technical documentation and presenting to technical audiences
Desired Skills:
- Agile software development methodology.
- Experience and/or knowledge of software Quality Assurance (QA) testing methodologies, such as black-box and/or white-box for unit testing and its testing frameworks, such as Mocha/Chai, Jasmine, Karma, JSUnit, PHPUnit, etc.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of the QTS is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. QTS hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. QTS believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables them to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.