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Software Engineer III

Swoop Staffing
Annapolis, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 1/12/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/11/2026
Salary: $200,000-$220,000
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Job Type: Full Time
Citizenship: USC
Clearance Level: Minimum Secret (client will sponsor TS/SCI with FSP)

Qualifications:

  • 20 years of experience architecting, developing, and maintaining software solutions, with an emphasis on performance optimizations
  • Bachelor’s or Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical discipline
  • Technical leadership and/or mentoring experience
  • Demonstrated experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining complex software systems in cloud environments such as AWS
  • Experience with provisioning, virtualization and containerization orchestration, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) tools 
  • Demonstrated success troubleshooting and solving complex problems
  • Experience developing and maintaining software solutions using a variety of languages
  • Ability to perform scripting (e.g., Bash, Python, Ruby) on Linux platform
  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases
  • Deep understanding of software and infrastructure engineering best practices
  • Strong monitoring/metrics skills 
  • User documentation and support experience
  • Deployment and management experience with binary software repositories such as Nexus, Artifactory
  • Experience working with, deploying, and managing Linux-based OS systems

Nice To Have:

  • Proactive technical customer service experience
  • Experience optimizing workflows across network domains
  • Experience with AWS
  • Contributions back into open-source community
  • Understanding of open-source libraries and tools
  • Container (Docker) and Container Orchestration understanding
Labor Category Description: Software Engineer 3 (SWE - III)

The Software Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems (e.g.,. processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements. Works individually or as part of a team. Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. Resolves software problem reports. Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment. Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS)/Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components. 



Salary : $200,000 - $220,000

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