Java Developer Junior

Job ID: 2618245
Location: Ashburn, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-10-21
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 junior-level Java/JEE Developer to join our team in Ashburn, VA to begin an exciting and challenging career.
This position is hybrid-remote, 4 days per week on-site in Ashburn, VA for the first year of employment.
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 4 days per week for the first year of employment. All candidates must be within the GWA/commutable area.

Target salary range: $60,001 - $100,000. 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 .