Java Developer Junior
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Job overview
SAIC seeks a junior-level Java/JEE Developer to design and implement software solutions in Ashburn, Virginia. The role is hybrid-remote, with on-site work four days per week in Ashburn during the first year. The developer will work with Java, cloud services, databases, and web technologies, and present designs for review. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain and hold a public trust position.
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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 is hybrid-remote, 4 days per week on-site in Ashburn, VA for the first year of employment.
Job Responsibilities
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Design and implement microservices using the Spring framework .
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Use modern software engineering tools including Eclipse, VS Code, and Atlassian Suites for design, development, and testing the software.
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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
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Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related engineering field with 2+ years of technical experience.
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2+ years of Java J2EE/JEE design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems.
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2+ years of working with Applications on Cloud utilizing serverless hosted services like AWS lambda.
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Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Angular, React, React-Native, NodeJS.
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Development of microservices using Spring. Primarily Spring Boot.
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Experience wiring up code to perform highly efficient CRUD operations on DBMS such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB with JDBC, JPA, Hibernate etc.
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Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, DocumentDB, DynamoDB etc.
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Developing and debugging complex SQL queries.
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Some experience and familiarity with Unix, Linux systems and commands along with some shell scripting.
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Experience with object-oriented analysis and design techniques.
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High level of self-motivation, desire to deliver stellar solutions and willingness to work in a distributed team environment.
Desired Skills and Experience
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Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
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First-hand experience working with large project teams (working with the Federal Government a strong plus.)
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Experience working on an agile team such as Scrum.
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Experience writing code to interact with AWS services (e.g., S3, SQS, Lambda, Elasticache, MongoDB etc.)
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HTML and CSS.
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Docker, Konvoy, Kubernetes.
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Jenkins, Gitlab, Monitoring Tools.
Customer Requirements
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Clearance – Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation.
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Citizenship – Must be a US Citizen.
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Location – This position will require on-site work in Ashburn, VA 4 days per week for the first year of employment. All candidates must be within the GWA/commutable area.
Target salary range: $60,001 - $100,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618245
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 39,925 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$60–100K/yr
- Virginia median$125–202K/yr1,649 salary ranges
- US median$133–216K/yr32,012 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $80K, is 52% below the Virginia median midpoint ($165K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,954 open Software Engineer jobs in Virginia and 39,925 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 32,903 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 12,493 of the 39,925 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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