Java Developer Principal

Job ID: 2618460
Location: Ashburn, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-10-27
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_HYBRID
Description
SAIC is currently seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Full-stack Java Developer (Senior) to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA.
Job Responsibilities

• Design and implement Micro Service Architecture JEE software applications.
• Use modern software engineering tools including Eclipse, VSCode, 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 14+ years of technical experience or Master's and 12.
• Provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS (or equivalent cloud providers).
• Solid experience with backend systems using Spring Boot.
• Java Frameworks such as Spring.
• UI development skills, specifically with Angular 19+.
• Database operations (Oracle and Postgres).
• Hibernate.
• JMS.
• XML, JSON.
• SQL, JDBC.
• Unix, Linux.
• Kubernetes.
• Experience with object-oriented analysis and design techniques.
• Thorough understanding of infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security etc.) and have experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution.
• React, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• High level of self-motivation, desire to deliver stellar solutions and willingness to work in a distributed team environment.
• Ability to lead and mentor junior level developers.
• Openness to working on all layers of the application.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Master's in Computer Science or related field.
• Familiar with OAuth.
• Developing 100% automating unit tests using SOAP-UI, Selenium, or equivalent tools.
• Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools (Git and Gradle/Maven).
• Load Balancing and Enterprise Service Bus frameworks (preferably under Cloud environment).
• Agile Scrum and possibly experience with leading a Scrum team as a scrum master or equivalent.
• Elasticsearch.
• Postgres, DynamoDB, HBase, MongoDB, Cassandra.
• JQuery, AngularJS, NodeJS.

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 office 2 days per week and if a mission need. All candidates must be within the GWA/commutable area.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. 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 .