Software Engineer - Junior Level

Leidos•Clarksburg, WV

5d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Junior-Level Software Engineer with full-stack capabilities to design, build, test and maintain scalable software systems. This role will play a part in creating front-end and backend services, developing APIs, and collaborating with the development team to deliver reliable, high-performance applications. The ideal candidate has experience in front-end and backend systems, cloud-native architectures, testing, and modern CI/CD practices and tools, while also being comfortable contributing across the full stack when needed. Duties include computer programming, documenting, managing configuration, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications and frameworks involved in a software release life cycle and resulting in a software product. Key Responsibilities: Responsible for writing and maintaining source code, creating and maintaining software applications and applying frameworks involved in a software release. Duties include computer programming, documenting, managing configuration, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications and frameworks involved in a software release life cycle and resulting in a software product. Expertise in one or more programming language is required. Works on day-to-day objectives with limited impact beyond the scope of own work area/ project team. Works under supervision on less complex projects/ assignments. Solves simple, routine technical problems following established procedures and policies. Develops products, solutions, processes using basic principles, theories and concepts within own technical specialty Communicates with peers to explain facts, basic analysis, processes and practices related to area.

Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, related field, or prior relevant, equivalent experience in software development and up to 2 years of relevant experience
Must hold an active Secret security clearance.
Expertise in front end web application development in one or more programming languages is required.
Java
JavaScript
Spring Boot
Knowledge of working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Experience with Agile project management software such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with version control systems such as Git.
Knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and system scalability.

Nice To Haves

Experience with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue).
Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices interfaces.
Experience with Automated testing experience in end-to-end testing, regression testing, integration testing, etc.
Spring Boot.
Hibernate
Hibernate using native queries
Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Gitlab.
Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools (Hashicorp Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Elastic Search).
A working knowledge and experience with the following are preferred as they will be used to complete Software Engineering tasks: SAFe 6, EDB Postgres, an IDE such as Eclipse or IntelliJ, Git, Python, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Argo, Docker, Red Hat Linux, SQL Developer, Jira, Bitbucket, OpenShift, SmartBear ReadyAPI, SoapUI, LoadUi, Java, Spring, Maven/Gradle, ActiveVOS, Camel, NEIM XML, EBTS, SecDevOps.

Responsibilities

Writing and maintaining source code
Creating and maintaining software applications
Applying frameworks involved in a software release
Computer programming
Documenting
Managing configuration
Testing
Bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications and frameworks involved in a software release life cycle and resulting in a software product
Developing products, solutions, processes using basic principles, theories and concepts within own technical specialty
Communicating with peers to explain facts, basic analysis, processes and practices related to area