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Software Engineer / Computer Science Developer (Mid-Senior Level)
Location: Huntsville, AL
Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a SECRET clearance (no active clearance required to apply)
Crossflow Technologies, Inc. is looking for a mid- to senior-level software engineer who can both design solid systems and explain why they chose one approach over another. You will be part of a tight, highly collaborative scrum team delivering business-to-business applications for commercial nuclear energy customers and advanced multi-domain operations analysis for the Department of Defense.
If you enjoy building real systems, thinking through architectural tradeoffs, and communicating clearly with both engineers and non-engineers, you will fit in well.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications in a fast-moving Agile/Scrum environment
- Work across domains including commercial nuclear energy analytics and defense modeling and analysis
- Develop and evaluate multiple architectural approaches for a given problem
- Clearly articulate cost, performance, scalability, risk, and schedule tradeoffs between design options
- Collaborate with technical leadership to make informed architecture decisions
- Design and optimize backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
- Own your code from design through deployment and ongoing sustainment
- Contribute to software architecture standards and long-term technical direction
What We're Looking For
Core skills (must have):
- Strong background working in Agile / Scrum teams
- Python development experience systems
- Full-stack development experience across frontend and backend
- Strong SQL database design and utilization skills
- Demonstrated focus on efficiency, performance, and optimization
- Containerization experience with Docker
- GitLab CI/CD pipeline experience
- Strong software architecture and design background
- Ability to produce and explain UML diagrams and architectural views
- Comfort working in Linux environments
- Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly to mixed technical and non-technical audiences
Nice to have (strong plus):
- Orchestration experience with Docker Swarm and or Kubernetes (k8s)
- Experience with Cameo Systems Modeler or other MBSE tools
- Experience performing or supporting architecture trade studies
- Familiarity with nuclear, defense, modeling, simulation, or analytical workflows
- Experience supporting secure or regulated environments
How We Work
- Small, focused teams
- Short feedback loops
- Pragmatic engineering over buzzwords
- Clean designs matter, but shipping matters too
- Decisions are expected to be reasoned and explainable
Why Join Us
- Work on technically serious problems in commercial nuclear energy and national defense
- Real ownership and influence over system design decisions
- Engineers are trusted to think, decide, and explain their reasoning
- No endless bureaucracy or pointless demos
Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field
Travel Requirement: Up to 25% travel
Clearance Type: Ability to Obtain SECRET
Type of Job: Full Time
| Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer: Crossflow ensures that employment decisions and personnel actions are administered fairly, equitably, and in compliance with the federal, state, and local laws and regulations governing EEO and personnel management. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Why Crossflow? Crossflow Technologies is proud to offer such wonderful benefits and perks to our employees; however, we feel the biggest perk is our company culture. We harbor a culture that extends down to the individual level by hiring people who understand and embrace our company values. Values like fervently protecting work-life balance and celebrating the achievements of others. To help guide and shape this environment, we strive to solicit feedback as frequently as possible through direct conversations and anonymous input. We take great pride in the fact that we've won the Best Places to Work award for the past four years - particularly when paired with having made the Inc. 5000 list for growth the same four years. To us, this demonstrates our ability to effectively scale our culture showing that Crossflow has been and continues to be, a place that people want to be. |
Benefit-Eligible Employee Perks:
EXCEPTIONAL HEALTH, DENTAL, AND VISION COVERAGE
Crossflow is pleased to offer employees with exceptional single and family options for health, dental, and vision coverage. Payments are taken from the first two paychecks of each month. At a glance,
• Health coverage choices (including an HSA) ranging from $0.00 to $146.40;
• Dental coverage ranges from $4.00 to $15.00; and
• Vision coverage ranges from $4.33 to $11.41.
CROSSFLOW KUDOS SPOT BONUS PROGRAM
We created a unique performance bonus program called Crossflow Kudos. Throughout the year, employees are nominated by other employees, company leads, and even individuals outside of Crossflow to receive additional compensation and personal recognition for their positive work. There are six broad categories in which employees can earn Kudos awards.
401(k) RETIREMENT PLAN & COMPANY MATCHING
Crossflow uses Principal as our 401(k) plan sponsor. Employees can choose payroll deduction and fund investing options. Payroll deductions will begin the month following your enrollment. Crossflow matches 100% of the first 3% of compensation, plus 50% of the next 2% of compensation.
HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Crossflow offers education assistance to benefit-eligible employees for degree programs at their director's discretion. Crossflow feels that a well-rounded education, even outside of an employee's current role, can enhance an employee's skillset and increase the company's value.
GENEROUS PTO ACCRUAL & FLEXIBLE LEAVE POLICY
Crossflow currently grants 11 federally observed paid holidays. In addition to these holidays, Crossflow offers a minimum of 2 weeks of paid time off (PTO) to all full-time employees. Employees may utilize PTO for any reason (sickness, vacation, personal day, etc.) and can carry over a maximum of 120 hours from year to year. Many employees are authorized to work additional hours within a normal, forty-hour pay period. This approval is included in the employee's offer letter for employment. These extra hours may be banked for compensatory (comp) time off.
PAID PARENTAL & BEREAVEMENT LEAVE
To help our employees be present with family during major life events, Crossflow provides additional PTO. We offer varying types of paid Parental Leave to aid birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents transition into parenthood. Crossflow also recognizes the importance of supporting employees who endure a death in their family by providing up to 5 days of paid Bereavement Leave a year.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUNDING
We support employees who seek out personal or professional growth opportunities through a myriad of enabling programs to further equip themselves. Professional Development includes, but is not limited to, training courses, certificate programs, memberships to industry groups, and materials.
EMPLOYEE DRIVEN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
We create as many opportunities as possible for employees to meet and build community. We offer monthly team bonding activities, allowing team members to assemble on a different level than at work. In addition to these gatherings, in 2021 we established Crossflow Cares, an employee-owned and operated charitable organization focused on awarding grants and providing volunteers to local non-profits. Furthermore, Crossflow Technologies is committed to serving the public by investing a large portion of our net income in the greater Huntsville/Madison County area.
MENTORSHIP PROGRAM & MORALE LUNCHES
The most successful people in the world always have a terrific team behind them, and Crossflow chooses to be the team behind the people, cheering our employees on to meaningful successes. Our Mentorship Program involves strategically pairing a protégé with a mentor who understands an employee's career aspirations and provides coaching towards that goal. A less structured version of this is our Morale Lunch program. We committed a portion of our budget to support our leads to meet with their team members over lunch and facilitate quality catch up sessions. The morale lunches have become a great tool for maintaining open communication and gaining insightful feedback.
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