Job ID: 2611421

Location: Ashburn, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-04-14

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_ON_SITE

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.

This position will be 100% on-site in Ashburn, VA for the first year of employment.

Job Responsibilities

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
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

MUST be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related engineering field with 2+ years of technical experience
2+ years of Java J2EE/JEE design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems.
2+ years of working with Applications on Cloud utilizing serverless hosted services like AWS lambda.
Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Angular, React, React-Native, NodeJS
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 NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, DocumentDB, DynamoDB etc.
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
High level of self-motivation, desire to deliver stellar solutions and willingness to work in a distributed team environment

Desired Skills and Experience

Master’s degree in computer science or related field
First-hand experience working with large project teams (working with the Federal Government a strong plus)
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)
HTML and CSS
Docker, Konvoy, Kubernetes
Jenkins, Gitlab, Monitoring Tools

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 – This position will require on-site work in Ashburn, VA 5 days per week for the first year of employment. All candidates must be within the GWA/commutable area.

Java Developer Junior

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