Full Stack Software Engineer

Brandes Associates Inc.•, DC

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Agile Empowerment Technologies (AET), a division of Brandes Associates, is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to support the continued development, modernization, and sustainment of secure mission software products used in DoD, Intelligence Community, and allied mission environments. AET’s products support secure data movement, message transformation, information sharing, and interoperability across mission-critical customer environments. This position offers the opportunity to work across the full application stack while contributing to secure messaging, data integration, CI/CD modernization, AI-assisted software engineering workflows, and future product capabilities. This position is approximately 85% work from home, with limited in-person collaboration as required, and is well suited for a hands-on software engineer who wants to contribute to mission-focused product development within a small, experienced, and technically disciplined team. Candidates should reside in, or be willing to relocate to, the Baltimore/Washington DC metro area to support periodic in-person collaboration, customer-related activities, secure-environment requirements, team meetings, or other business needs. Opportunities for career advancement, excellent benefits and stability are some of the advantages of our well-established, employee-focused company.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience; exceptional candidates with 3+ years of highly relevant full-stack, integration, or secure systems experience may be considered
Strong Java development experience; ability to work on existing Java codebases and modernize/refactor safely
JavaScript and preferably TypeScript; experience with modern web UI development
Ability to work from UI through API/service layer, integration/messaging components, and database persistence
Experience with REST APIs, XML, JSON, message transformation, schema-driven data exchange, and custom message formats
SQL and relational database experience, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle
Comfortable developing and troubleshooting on Linux and Windows
Experience using Jira, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or equivalent tools for issue tracking, documentation, source control, code review, and team coordination
Git experience, including branching, pull requests, code review, and disciplined commit practices
Unit testing, integration testing, debugging, and defect resolution
Proven ability to work effectively in a mostly remote, geographically dispersed team
Ability to explain technical work clearly to product owners, Mission Systems Engineering, QA, support, and leadership
BA/BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Seven years of relevant experience may substitute for degree requirement
Applicants must possess an active DoD Secret clearance at the time of hire.
The selected candidate will be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
The selected candidate must be eligible and willing to be submitted for a TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph after hire.
Ability to maintain required clearance eligibility is a condition of continued employment in this role.
The applicant must have US citizenship at the time of application.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise messaging, message brokers, ESB/integration frameworks, Apache Camel, Mule, JMS, AMQP, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ/Artemis, or similar technologies
Experience supporting DoD, IC, federal, or classified software environments
CI/CD pipelines, automated analyzers, SBOM generation, security scans, build gates, and release automation
Docker or containerized development/test environments; Kubernetes helpful but not mandatory
Willingness to document design decisions, support runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, and engineering practices
Experience balancing roadmap work, customer issues, defects, technical debt, and release readiness
Familiarity with ISO/QMS, configuration control, change control, or regulated development practices
Familiarity with least privilege, auditability, secure coding, dependency risk, vulnerability remediation, and controlled release practices

Responsibilities

Design, develop, unit test, integrate, and maintain Java and JavaScript-based software capabilities.
Support message transformation, routing, and integration involving XML, JSON, custom message formats, and mission-specific data exchange patterns.
Contribute to enhancements, defect resolution, refactoring, and technical debt reduction within AET’s existing product baseline.
Participate in product planning, backlog refinement, technical design discussions, code reviews, implementation, integration testing, release preparation, and post-release support.
Support Git-based workflows, CI/CD improvements, automated testing, static analysis, dependency review, SBOM generation, security scanning, build automation, release quality gates, and repeatable deployment-support practices.
Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to improve productivity in code analysis, test generation, documentation, troubleshooting, refactoring support, and workflow automation.
Support the interface between software development and Mission Systems Engineering by investigating field-reported issues, reproducing defects, evaluating operational feedback, supporting release packaging, and improving product supportability.
Document design decisions, implementation notes, troubleshooting procedures, support-relevant technical information, build and release practices, test approaches, and lessons learned.