2 days ago
Base Salary
$108k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead Agile sprint planning and align team priorities, deliverables, and project objectives.
- Mentor team members, provide technical leadership, remove roadblocks, and foster continuous improvement.
- Design, develop, and maintain microservices-based applications.
- Translate requirements into working software with systems engineering and program teams.
- Contribute to system design, technical decisions, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and continuous improvement.
- Integrate services with databases, messaging systems, and external APIs.
- Develop clean, maintainable, and testable code using CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
- Implement unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end automated testing strategies.
- Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, refactoring, debugging, and test creation.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, QA, DevOps, and platform teams in an Agile/SAFe environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with at least 6 years of relevant experience.
- Hands-on experience building and supporting microservices-based systems.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, or C++ on Linux.
- Experience or exposure to AI/ML-enabled systems, automation, or intelligent platforms, including Claude-Code.
- Understanding of APIs and distributed system concepts.
- Experience working in Agile environments.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust investigation.
- U.S. citizenship and successful completion of government-required background investigations.
- Preferred experience includes Git-based version control, CI/CD pipelines, SAFe, relational or NoSQL databases, Kafka or other event-streaming technologies, AWS, Azure, or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and automated test-suite integration.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring 3 days onsite and 2 days working from home.
- Work location is Gaithersburg, MD, or Egg Harbor Township, NJ.
- Opportunity to work on mission-critical, safety-critical systems supporting national air traffic operations.
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About Leidos
Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.