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.