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Software Engineer I

Black Eagle DefenseFort Meade, MD🇺🇸United StatesPosted 14 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Salary
$124k - $181k/yr
Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Description

SALARY RANGE $124,000 - $181,000/year

DUTIES As a successful candidate for the Software Engineer I position on the CNO Section 7 Discovery Analytics Team (DAT), you will provide rapid software solutions to CNO analysts and operators. You will focus primarily on front-end UI development, with opportunities to work across the full stack and a wide range of technologies. You will work closely with analysts, operators, and other DAT team members to create and maintain UI tools that help address important mission issues, reducing friction in achieving mission goals. You will operate in a broad, fast-paced environment with the goal of delivering quick-turnaround solutions that provide as much benefit to the mission as possible.

Required Skills

SKILLS

  • Develop frontend UIs to display user data in intuitive ways
  • Communicate directly with users to gather and integrate feedback into software solutions
  • Understand the customer's mission
  • Collaborate often with team members and across other teams
  • Automate workflows
  • Desire to solve problems, even if you have minimal to no knowledge about how to do so at the start

QUALIFICATIONS Three (3) years of experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity are required. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Additional requirements:

  • JavaScript/TypeScript and HTML/CSS experience
  • Experience developing with UI frameworks (React, Angular, etc.)
  • Familiarity with relational databases (Postgres, SQLite, MySQL, etc.)
  • Knowledge of basic Docker containerization
  • Experience using Git for version control
  • Familiarity with the Linux command line

Desired Skills

NICE-TO-HAVES

  • CNO experience
  • Experience with non-relational databases (Elasticsearch, MongoDB)
  • Other programming language knowledge (Java, Python, Bash, PowerShell)
  • Other frontend or backend frameworks (Vue, FastAPI, Spring Boot, etc.)
  • Data science and machine learning experience
  • Experience with DevOps (GitLab CI, CI/CD, k8s, Ansible)
  • Any AWS or other cloud provider certification

Skills

Docker
FastAPI
MongoDB
MySQL
SQLite
Spring
Spring Boot
AWS
Machine Learning
Angular
Ansible
Bash
CSS
Git
GitLab CI
HTML
Java
JavaScript
PowerShell
Python
React
TypeScript
Vue

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