Lead Software Engineer

Your Impact:

The Fortify Aviator team is building a suite of tools to help our clients leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to review, audit, and resolve vulnerabilities. You will be Senior Software Engineer on the team and you will contribute to projects that aid in building these tools. You will work with bright, motivated teammates to implement solutions to some of the toughest code analysis problems in the industry.

Join our experts and help us expand our security team!

What the role offers:

• Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, or Internet- related computer programs, primarily for end users.
• Using current programming language and technologies, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications.
• Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
• May interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.

• Develops product architectures and methodologies for software applications design and development across multiple platforms and organizations within the Global Business Unit.
• Identifies and evaluates new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.
• Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
• Leverages recognized domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members to set an example of software applications design and development innovation and excellence.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• At least 8+ years of experience in software development
• Strong knowledge of the Java language
• Ability to learn rapidly in the quickly evolving technical landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLM)

• Collaborative and can be productive with loosely defined requirements.
• Knowledge and understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, microservices.
• Knowledge and understanding of Git
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in overall architecture of software applications for products and solutions.
• Designing and integrating software applications running on multiple platform types into overall architecture.
• Knowledge and experience of Agile development practices and working in global team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at business unit and executive levels.
• Knowledge and understanding of SQL databases (Postgres preferred), queries.
• Strong understanding of static and dynamic application security testing (SAST & DAST), the evidence it gathers, why users are interested in this evidence and how they use it to evaluate the security of their products.
• Prior experience leveraging LLMs to enhance a software application and getting results in a performant way, preferred but not a requirement.
• Evaluating and selecting tools and processes for software applications testing and methodology, including writing and execution of test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools.
• History of innovation with multiple patents or deployed solutions in the field of software design, preferred but not a requirement.
• Experience with Postgres
• Knowledge and understanding of Secure coding practices.