About this opportunity
Leidos lists this Junior Software Developer - Python opportunity in alexandria, Virginia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Build Your Software Engineering Career on a Mission That Matters
Ready to take your software engineering skills beyond the classroom and into a mission where your work has real-world impact? Leidos is seeking a talented Junior Software Engineer to join the Chinook Program supporting an Intelligence Community (IC) customer and helping evolve an application that plays an important role in national security.
As a Junior Software Engineer, you’ll work alongside experienced engineers, architects, testers, and DevSecOps professionals while gaining hands-on experience developing, integrating, testing, and delivering modern software capabilities. The Junior Software Engineer will work within an Agile development team and will receive technical guidance from senior engineers while progressively taking ownership of software components and features. Develop, modify, test, and deploy software solutions that support our customer’s GEOINT mission under the guidance of senior engineers.
Implement software features based on established requirements and technical designs.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
Develop and execute unit and integration tests.
Troubleshoot software defects and assist with root-cause analysis.
Support integration of application components and services.
Work with REST APIs, databases, and application services.
Participate in agile development sprints and contribute to daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
Collaborate with mission users and product managers to refine requirements and improve user experience.
Use Git and established CI/CD processes to manage and deliver software.
Support deployment and sustainment activities for the application.
Build and maintain secure, containerized applications using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
Support DevSecOps pipelines and ensure code meets security and accreditation standards.
US citizenship is required per contract
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and 2-4 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience. Web: HTML, CSS, JSON, Ajax, and REST APIs
Object-oriented Programming: Python, Java, or JavaScript
Front-end and Back-end Frameworks: React, Angular, Vue.js, jQuery, Spring Boot, Django, Node.js, Flask, or Svelte
Cloud Development: AWS, Azure, or similar cloud platforms
Relational Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server
Operating System: Windows, Linux
Understanding of modern software design patterns and coding standards.
Experience architecting, developing, and delivering complex software systems into production.
Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins) and agile collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence).
Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS (C2S or GovCloud) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Understanding of secure coding practices and government system accreditation processes (e.g., Strong, self-motivated desire to learn new programming languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques.
Experience working on a customer contract or in the Intelligence Community (IC).
Frontend Web Development: UI/UX.
NoSQL Database: Cloud Exposure:
Multi-cloud architectures: AWS, IBM, Google, Azure, and Oracle.
Specific AWS Services: S3, SQS, SNS, EC2, CloudFormation and RDS.
Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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