Java Backend Developer Senior

Job ID: 2612914

Location: Ashburn, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-05-26

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 Backend Developer (Senior) to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA.

This position requires on-site work in Ashburn, VA 5 days per week for the first year of employment.

Job Responsibilities

• Working closely with the tech lead and senior developers, the Mid-Level Java Developer will participate in the system architecture design, systems engineering, development, integration testing and validation, and all aspects of the software life-cycle (requirements to design to implementation to test) for a java backend application involving extensive messaging and transaction processing.
• Design and implement Micro Service Architecture for Cloud based software applications.
• Use modern software engineering tools including Eclipse, Jira, 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 9 years of technical experience.
• 9 years of strong Java design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems.
• Extensive use of Java hands-on on most recent Job role (such as SW Developer or SW Engineer) or in the last 5 years.
• Effective Proficiency usage and Development with JavaEE, Spring, and Springboot relative to Microservices.
• Usage of JavaEE supported technology stacks in platforms, such as EKS, Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS, or WebLogic.
• Demonstrates capability for Operational Support and Analysis of Delivered Applications to resolve real-time issues.
• Demonstrates capability to modify and share code seamlessly via tools such as Maven and Artifactory while communicating its changes effectively to group members for rapid application rollouts.
• Ability to diagnose problems and support production systems.
• Experience working with Applications on Cloud utilizing serverless hosted services like AWS S3, DynanoDB, lambda etc.
• Java Micro Service Architecture frameworks such as Spring Boot.
• Experience with container platforms like Docker and Kubernetes.
• SQL DBs (preferably Oracle) and strong SQL/JDBC skills is required for this position.
• Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Document DB, Cassandra etc.
• Messaging and Streaming Systems (Kafka, SQS ans Kinesis.)
• XML/JSON.
• Unix/Linux.
• Experince with JPA/Hibernate.
• Experience with building RESTful webservices and experience with query language based APIs like GraphQL.
• Jenkins, Maven, Gitlab and Jira for CI/CD.
• Demonstrated expertise in software engineering practices (e.g., reading/generating software specs, design patterns, continuous integration.)
• Demonstrated ability to incorporate rigorous Unit testing as part of development activities is essential.
  
  

Desired Skills And Experience

• First-hand experience working with large project teams (working with the Federal Government a strong plus.)
• Proficient in applying core Java programming skills and using popular 3rd-party libraries to interpret data mappings and organize information for processing large-scale datasets across various representation formats such as relational databases, NoSQL Databases, XML, JSON, and raw flat files.
• Used Java for enterprise applications development involving real time operations.
• Proven Java custom framework development for supporting data processing, especially with extremely high-volume Transactional usage.
• Usage of real time analysis tools such as Dynatrace to diagnose issues and maintain situational awareness of issues.
• Usage of CI/CD tools such as Harness.
• Demonstrated ability to think critically and creatively to develop innovative solutions to software problems.
• Ability to develop and maintain components with stringent performance requirements.
• Agile development experience a plus.
• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field is a plus.
  
  

Customer Requirements

• Clearance - Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation.
• Location - Required to be on-site in Ashburn, VA 5 days per week for the first year of employment. All candidates must be within the GWA/commutable area.
  
  

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 .