
Senior Software Back End Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology
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Job overview
The Senior Software Back End Engineer will deliver features and improve reliability across core services supporting customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination. The role involves identifying bottlenecks, solving product and system problems, contributing to modernization and architecture, and mentoring developers. The position is remote with approximately 0–10% business travel. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C.
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Full job description
Req ID: RQ231968
Type of Requisition: Regular
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Public Trust/Other Required: None
Job Family: Software Engineering
Skills:
Amazon Web Services (AWS),Cloud Computing,Software Solutions
Experience:
5 + years of related experience
Job Description:
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SENIOR
What You'll Do:
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Work in a unique environment and stack, offering challenging problems and interesting opportunities
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Deliver new features and improve reliability of our core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination
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Help identify system bottlenecks or flaws in business logic and work with the team to address them
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Take ownership over product problems, develop solutions you're proud of, and prove through data that they deliver impact
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Work across the stack to solve problems -- there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you
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Mentor junior developers and contribute to the technical growth of the team
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Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs effectively within your team
What We're Looking For:
Evidence of Engineering Accomplishment:
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Demonstrated track record of delivering impactful, production ready, software solutions of varying complexity
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Experience designing and implementing components of distributed systems (multi-tier architectures) including storage layers, caching layers, and application layers
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Working experience with microservice architectures, with exposure to high-throughput systems
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Familiarity with system transformation patterns and ability to contribute to modernization efforts
Technical Excellence:
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Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Java, Python, or similar)
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Solid understanding of cloud engineering paradigms, asynchronous systems, and service integration patterns
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Working knowledge of design patterns, reliability, and scaling principles
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Ability to contribute to architectural discussions and system design
Ownership, Collaboration, & Communication:
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Demonstrated propensity for taking ownership of problems and their solutions
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Quality driven, owns their output from communication, to code, to documentation
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Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to teammates and stakeholders
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Experience mentoring peers or junior developers
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Willingness to advocate for sound engineering practices within your team
Adaptability & Growth:
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Track record of learning and adapting to new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies
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Demonstrated embrace of AI and automation tools to enhance productivity and engineering outcomes
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Comfort with ambiguity and willingness to venture into new problem domains
Required:
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Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C
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Position is remote, with approximately 0-10% business travel
#EDopportunities
The likely salary range for this position is $122,275 - $165,431. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at https://gdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
How this job compares
Set against the 8,580 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$122–165K/yr
- Virginia median$152–225K/yr211 salary ranges
- US median$150–250K/yr6,456 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $144K, is 25% below the Virginia median midpoint ($192K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Engineering salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 285 open Software Engineering jobs in Virginia and 8,580 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- ByteDance45 open
- Capital One25 open
- Amazon20 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (6,596 postings).
- Education
- 2,271 of the 8,580 open Software Engineering jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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