Junior Software Engineer

Build Your Software Engineering Career on a Mission That Matters

Ready to take your software engineering skills beyond the classroom and into a mission where your work has real-world impact Leidos is seeking a talented Junior Software Engineer to join the Chinook Program supporting an Intelligence Community (IC) customer and helping evolve an application that plays an important role in national security.

As a Junior Software Engineer youll work alongside experienced engineers architects testers and DevSecOps professionals while gaining hands-on experience developing integrating testing and delivering modern software capabilities. The Junior Software Engineer will work within an Agile development team and will receive technical guidance from senior engineers while progressively taking ownership of software components and features. Youll have the opportunity to learn new technologies tackle meaningful engineering challenges and see your contributions become a part of a real operational mission.

Position may be performed in the following locations below.

Tucson AZ

Gaithersburg MD

Alexandria VA

Chantilly VA

Englewood CO

St. Louis MO

Clearance Level Required:

Active Top Secret/SCI with the ability to successfully pass a Polygraph examination.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop modify test and deploy software solutions that support our customers GEOINT mission under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Implement software features based on established requirements and technical designs.
• Write clean maintainable and well-documented code.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback from senior engineers.
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests.
• Troubleshoot software defects and assist with root-cause analysis.
• Support integration of application components and services.
• Work with REST APIs databases and application services.
• Participate in agile development sprints and contribute to daily stand-ups sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with mission users and product managers to refine requirements and improve user experience.
• Use Git and established CI/CD processes to manage and deliver software.
• Maintain technical documentation and development artifacts.
• Support deployment and sustainment activities for the application.
• Build and maintain secure containerized applications using technologies such as Docker Kubernetes and AWS.
• Support DevSecOps pipelines and ensure code meets security and accreditation standards.
• Resolve various tasks as prioritized by the team product owner.

Basic Qualifications:

• US citizenship is required per contract
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field and 2-4 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

• Experience with the following technologies:

Web:HTML CSS JSON Ajax and REST APIs

Object-oriented Programming:Python Java or JavaScript

Front-end and Back-end Frameworks: React Angular jQuery Spring Boot Django Flask or Svelte

Cloud Development: AWS Azure or similar cloud platforms

Relational Database:MySQL PostgreSQL or SQL Server

Operating System: Windows Linux

• Version Control System:Git

Understanding of modern software design patterns and coding standards.

Experience architecting developing and delivering complex software systems into production.

Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI Jenkins) and agile collaboration tools (JIRA Confluence).

Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS (C2S or GovCloud) and containerization technologies (Docker Kubernetes)

Understanding of secure coding practices and government system accreditation processes (e.g. RMF STIGs)

Strong self-motivated desire to learn new programming languages tools frameworks and techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on a customer contract or in the Intelligence Community (IC).
• Frontend Web Development: UI/UX.
• NoSQL Database: OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.

• Cloud Exposure:

Multi-cloud architectures: AWS IBM Google Azure and Oracle.

Specific AWS Services:S3 SQS SNS EC2 CloudFormation and RDS.

• Familiarity with geospatial tools and standards:

GeoServer

PostGIS

OGC APIs

ESRI ArcGIS

Exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform Ansible).

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