Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack Software Discipline Lead

Northrop Grumman

Lead Full Stack Software Discipline area at Northrop Grumman, overseeing strategic vision, technical priorities, and fostering collaboration across engineering teams.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeSan Diego • California, Florida • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $157,800 - $289,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGraphQLGRPCJavaJavaScriptMongoDBNode.jsNoSQLPythonReactSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide leadership and define strategic vision for technical priorities within Software discipline, aligned to long-term sector strategy.
Regularly interface with EI&E discipline leads to identify program needs and close gaps in engineering tools, processes, digital solutions, and technical training.
Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of sector-wide engineering tools, standardized processes, digital solutions, and technical training-- ensuring they are relevant, scalable, and interoperable across programs.
Build and sustain a strong Software Community of Practice (CoP), ensuring alignment of sub-CoPs, strategies, and priorities while fostering collaboration across programs and sub-disciplines.
Act as a trusted advisor to help resolve technical performance shortfalls through root cause analysis, corrective action planning, long-term verification of improvement.
Capture, share, and embed lessons learned and best practices across programs to continuously raise the bar for technical performance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 14 or more years of experience in software engineering OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 12 or more years of experience in software engineering OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 9 years of software engineering experience
Subject Matter Expert in one or more technology areas: Front end client-side languages/frameworks such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React or TypeScript. Back-end server-side programing languages such as Python, Java, Node.js. API design experience such as REST, GraphQL or gRPC. Database knowledge in either SQL, NoSQL or MongoDB. Networking basics, such as HTTP or websockets. Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and containerization.
Must have an active U.S. government Secret clearance that is in-scope (granted or renewed in the last 6 years) and eligibility for TS/SCI.
Must be able to attain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR).
Ability to travel as needed (approx. 25%)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringHTMLCSSJavaScriptReactTypeScriptPythonJavaNode.jsAPI design

Soft Skills

leadershipstrategic visioncollaborationroot cause analysiscorrective action planningcommunicationproblem-solvingmentoringcommunity buildingperformance improvement

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreePhDU.S. government Secret clearanceTS/SCI eligibilitySpecial Program Access (PAR)