Java Developer Junior

Job ID: 2615063

Location: Ashburn, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-07-29

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_ON_SITE

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 will be 100% on-site in Ashburn, VA for the first year of employment. 2 days per week on-site after the first year.

Job Responsibilities

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

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

2+ years of Java J2EE/JEE design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems.

2+ years of working with Applications on Cloud utilizing serverless hosted services like AWS lambda.

Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Angular, React, React-Native, NodeJS

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 NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, DocumentDB, DynamoDB etc.

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

High level of self-motivation, desire to deliver stellar solutions and willingness to work in a distributed team environment

Desired Skills and Experience

Master's degree in computer science or related field

First-hand experience working with large project teams (working with the Federal Government a strong plus)

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)

HTML and CSS

Docker, Konvoy, Kubernetes

Jenkins, Gitlab, Monitoring Tools

Customer Requirements

Clearance - Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation

Location - This position will require on-site work in Ashburn, VA 5 days per week for the first year of employment. All candidates must be within the GWA/commut

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .