Java Developer Junior

Job ID: 2617483

Location: Ashburn, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-09-30

Category: Software

Subcategory: SW Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_HYBRID

Description

SAIC is currently seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented junior-level Java/JEE Developer to join our team in Ashburn, VA to begin an exciting and challenging career.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop Use Cases for implementing new technologies that solve “real world” problems found in enforcing border security
• Influences the adoption of new technologies to be used by other project teams to promote the adoption of new technologies across the organization
• Develop and maintain Enterprise Systems best practices; support knowledge sharing across the enterprise
• Follow tool adoption processes and bring innovative ideas that promote forward thinking, optimization, security and savings across the enterprise
• Ready to provide hands-on application team surge support:
  • Design and implement microservices using the Spring framework
  • Use modern software engineering tools including Eclipse, VS Code, and Atlassian Suites for design, development, and testing the software
  • Work with users in an Agile development approach to understand and document requirements in JIRA, then elicit feedback and refine solutions through demonstrations
  • Present the solution at formal and informal design reviews, and document the design according to the Government’s system lifecycle methodology

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related engineering field with 2+ years of technical experience
• Provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS (or equivalent cloud providers)
• Development of microservices using Spring. Primarily Spring Boot.
• Experience wiring up code to perform highly efficient CRUD operations on DBMS such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB with JDBC, JPA, Hibernate etc
• Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Angular, React, React-Native, NodeJS
• Developing and debugging complex SQL queries
• Some experience and familiarity with Unix, Linux systems and commands along with some shell scripting
• Experience with object-oriented analysis and design techniques
• Thorough understanding of developing scalable web applications - infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security etc.) and have experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution
• High level of self-motivation, desire to deliver stellar solutions and willingness to work in a distributed team environment

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience working on an agile team such as Scrum
• Experience writing code to interact with AWS services (e.g., S3, SQS, Lambda, Elasticache, MongoDB etc)
• Experience developing use cases, developing the solution and presenting outcomes
• Docker, Konvoy, Kubernetes
• Jenkins, Harness, Gitlab, Monitoring Tools
• Masters in Computer Science or related field is a plus
• Ability to work in a high-pressured, tight-deadline environment
• Must be able to multitask efficiently and progressively and work comfortably in an ever-changing data environment

Customer Requirements

• Clearance – Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation
• Citizenship – Must be a US Citizen
• Location – Hybrid with on-site (Ashburn, VA) visit 1 day per week and if a mission need. All candidates must be within the GWA/commutable area

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.