Junior Software Engineer — AI-Driven Cloud Apps

MetaPhase Consulting; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

MetaPhase Consulting is seeking a Jr-Software Engineer to join our Reston, VA team. You will work directly with customers and mission users to translate challenges into working solutions across cloud, APIs, data, and front-end and back-end layers.

You will prototype, deploy production capabilities, and continuously refine them using AI-assisted tools, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and modern engineering practices, while staying customer-focused and eager to learn.

Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years of software engineering experience or related technical discipline.
• Experience building or supporting modern applications in a cloud environment.
• Familiarity with AWS or Azure compute, networking, IAM, storage, monitoring, and security concepts.
• Experience with Git, GitHub, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers and mission users to understand challenges and translate them into technical solutions.
• Rapidly prototype, build, test, and deploy capabilities using cloud-native architectures and APIs.
• Design, develop, integrate, troubleshoot, and improve application functionality across front-end, back-end, data, API, and cloud service layers.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated tests, observability, security controls, and deployment workflows.
• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate development, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and operations.
• Partner with customers to demonstrate working software early and refine solutions as needs evolve.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and release coordination.

Skills

AWS / Azure

React

TypeScript

Python

CI/CD practices

Customer collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Docker

Job description

MetaPhase Consulting is seeking a Jr-Software Engineer to join our Reston, VA team. You will work directly with customers and mission users to translate challenges into working solutions across cloud, APIs, data, and front-end and back-end layers.

You will prototype, deploy production capabilities, and continuously refine them using AI-assisted tools, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and modern engineering practices, while staying customer-focused and eager to learn.