Java Developer Junior

  • SAIC
  • VA
  • Aug 05, 2026

Job Description

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 will be 100% on-site in Ashburn, VA for the first year of employment. 2 days per week on-site after the first year.
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.
  • Citizenship - Must be a US Citizen.
  • Location - This position will require on-site work in Ashburn, VA 5 days per week for the first year of employment. All candidates must be within the GWA/commut.

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.