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Job overview
SAIC seeks a senior Java/JEE Developer for its Enterprise Application Support Program in Ashburn, Virginia. The role designs and implements Spring microservices, develops and tests enterprise software, and presents and documents solutions. It is on-site four days per week during the first year, with a later hybrid option. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain and hold a public trust position.
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Description
SAIC is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Java/JEE Developer (Senior) to begin an exciting and challenging career with our large Enterprise Application Support Program to support one of our project delivery teams in Ashburn, VA.
This position will be on-site in Ashburn, VA 4 days per week for the first year of employment. After the first year, you will have the option to work 2 days on-site per week.
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 9+ years of technical experience
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Provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS (or equivalent cloud providers)
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Java design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems
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Strong hands-on experience using Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
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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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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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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
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High level of self-motivation, desire to deliver stellar solutions and willingness to work in a distributed team environment
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Ability to lead and mentor junior level developers
Desired Skills and Experience
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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, CSS and JavaScript, Angular, React, React-Native, NodeJS
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Mobile development experience (Android & iOS)
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React Native framework experience
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Docker, Konvoy, Kubernetes
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Jenkins, Gitlab, Monitoring Tools
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Masters in Computer Science or related field is a plus
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 – Required to be on-site in Ashburn, VA 4 days per week for the first year of employment. After their first year, they will have the option to work a hybrid schedule (2-3 days on-site) depending on the needs of the team.
Target salary range: $140,001 - $180,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2619020
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$140–180K/yr
- Virginia median$125–202K/yr1,649 salary ranges
- US median$133–216K/yr32,012 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $160K, is 3% below the Virginia median midpoint ($165K) — in the middle half 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
- Capital One205 open
- Amazon136 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 9 years of experience — more 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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