Principal software engineer Jobs in Ottawa, ON

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Job Title: Software Engineer
Job Location: Ottawa, ON
Job Code: 44919
Job Schedule: Day Shift
Compensation Range: Between $85,500 - $135,500 CDN annually

We are seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to the design and development of a next-generation communications management suite. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing robust software architectures, developing microservices-based applications, and delivering solutions that enable the monitoring, control, and management of complex communications networks. Working within a multidisciplinary engineering team, you will tackle challenging problems in distributed computing, networking, and real-time systems while supporting mission-critical operational requirements and simulation environments.

Essential Functions:

• Design software solutions and contribute to software designs;
• Understand and develop microservices solution that operates in a complex, multi-network environment;
• Conduct independent research and provide new solutions to problems;
• Interact with systems engineering on technical issues;
• Debugging software problems for near real-time simulation; and
• Conduct and prepare presentations and demonstrations.
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Computer or Software Engineering (or equivalent experience), or Electrical or Systems Engineering with software experience;
• Minimum 7 years software engineering experience which must include object-oriented design and programming, C#, ASP.NET and .Net Core;
• Experience building web applications, using web technologies and protocols such as C#, ASP.NET, .Net Core, REST APIs, Http, and SignalR;
• Experience with client-server and networking protocols, such as SNMP, Websockets, and TCP stack;
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL or others); and
• Excellent technical communication of ideas and design.
  

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with CQRS, Distributed Systems & Akka;
• Experience designing and developing highly available, fault tolerant and distributed systems;
• Experience with message broker systems such as RabbitMQ or similar;
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills combined with a strong technical presence;
• Work on problems of diverse scope, determining methods and procedures to be used on new assignments, and providing feedback and recommendations to other technical personnel;
• Able to work independently and in a team-based environment;
• Experience with web frameworks such as Vue.js or Angular is an asset;
• Knowledge and /or experiencing in developing or integrating applications is an asset; and
• Experience in military systems and standards is an asset.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Must be eligible for registration with the Controlled Goods Program; and
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a government of Canada Reliability status and Secret Level 2/NATO Secret security clearance.
  

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