Junior Systems Engineer — Agile Delivery & Govt

Reflexive Concepts, LLC; Maryland; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a Junior Systems Engineer to join our team. You will assist with planning, design, and implementation of mission-critical systems and work directly with government customers, engineers, developers, and UX teams to ensure capabilities are defined, built, tested, and delivered.

You will translate requirements into user stories, support sprint planning, and participate in Agile ceremonies while collaborating across stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Ability to elicit, analyze, and document functional requirements from stakeholders.
• Translate requirements into Jira user stories and epics for development teams.
• Experience conducting functional/manual testing of application features.
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical work to non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with software development concepts (e.g., Java or JavaScript frameworks, RESTful microservices) to communicate with developers.

Responsibilities

• Requirements Gathering & Decomposition: Elicit and document functional requirements from the government customer and stakeholders, decomposing them into detailed technical requirements.
• User Story Development: Translate technical requirements into well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria for the development team.
• Sprint Curation: Curate and groom the sprint backlog, ensuring stories are appropriately sized and sequenced so each developer has sufficient, well-scoped work.
• Developer Support: Serve as a point of contact for developers, addressing implementation questions and helping remove blockers throughout the sprint.
• Initial Testing: Conduct initial functional testing of new development to validate features against requirements before broader QA and customer review.
• Customer Presentation: Present new development and completed features to the government customer, gathering feedback for future iterations.
• UX Collaboration: Partner with the UX team on new designs, ensuring requirements and user stories reflect usability and design considerations.
• Agile Ceremonies: Participate actively in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, demos, retrospectives) and support the broader development lifecycle.

Skills

Requirements gathering

User stories & backlog

Agile / Jira / Confluence

Testing (functional/manual)

Communication skills

Technical understanding (Java/JS/REST)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a Junior Systems Engineer to join our team. You will assist with planning, design, and implementation of mission-critical systems and work directly with government customers, engineers, developers, and UX teams to ensure capabilities are defined, built, tested, and delivered.

You will translate requirements into user stories, support sprint planning, and participate in Agile ceremonies while collaborating across stakeholders.