Mid-Level Software Engineer

Leidos; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave

Retirement

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Mid-Level Software Engineer to join the Chinook Program supporting an Intelligence Community customer. You will own features from design through deployment, build scalable services, and contribute to DevSecOps and modern cloud technologies.

Responsibilities include API development, QA, code reviews, and collaboration with test engineering to ensure acceptance criteria. Active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required for the role at multiple locations including Chantilly, VA.

Qualifications

• US citizenship is required per contract.
• 4–8 years of relevant software engineering experience, or a Master’s with fewer years.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, and delivering software.
• Experience with CI/CD and agile collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, test, deploy, and maintain software for GEOINT mission.
• Translate requirements into software solutions and APIs.
• Implement moderately complex features independently.
• Develop scalable and secure components; implement tests.
• Develop and consume RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Collaborate in CI/CD and DevSecOps processes.

Skills

HTML/CSS/JSON/REST

Python/Java/JavaScript

React/Angular/Vue/Svelte

AWS/Azure/Cloud

SQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL

Git

CI/CD (GitLab/Jenkins)

Docker/Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Master's degree in a related field

Tools

GitLab/Jenkins

Terraform/Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

JIRA/Confluence

Job description

Description

You’ve built your software engineering foundation. Now it’s time to take ownership of technology that truly matters. Leidos is seeking an accomplished Mid-Level Software Engineer to join the Chinook Program supporting an Intelligence Community (IC) customer and helping evolve an application supporting important national security objectives.

Turn Your Engineering Experience Into Mission Impact

As a Mid-Level Software Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to own meaningful features and software components from design through deployment. Independently you’ll design, develop, integrate, test, and maintain software capabilities. You’re expected to take ownership of assigned features and components while contributing to technical decisions, code quality, automation, and continuous improvement. You’ll solve challenging technical problems, collaborate with talented engineers across disciplines, and contribute to modern cloud, DevSecOps, API, and application technologies.

Position may be performed in the following locations below.

• Tucson, AZ
• Gaithersburg, MD
• Alexandria, VA
• Chantilly, VA
• Englewood, CO
• St. Louis, MO

Clearance Level Required:

Active Top Secret/SCI with the ability to successfully pass a Polygraph examination.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, integrate, test, deploy, and maintain a software application that supports our customer’s GEOINT mission.
• Translate functional and technical requirements into software solutions.
• Independently implement moderately complex software features.
• Develop maintainable, scalable, and secure application components.
• Develop and consume RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Work with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Troubleshoot application defects, integration issues, and performance problems.
• Perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Develop unit, integration, and automated tests.
• Participate in code reviews and establish high-quality coding practices.
• Support CI/CD and DevSecOps processes.
• Contribute to containerized application environments.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demonstrations, and technical working sessions.
• Collaborate with Test Engineering to ensure features meet acceptance criteria and quality expectations.
• Support deployment, monitoring, and sustainment of the application.
• Identify opportunities to improve application performance, reliability, maintainability, and security.
• Provide technical guidance to junior engineers.
• Maintain appropriate software and technical documentation.

Basic Qualifications:

• US citizenship is required per contract.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with less than 2-6 years of prior relevant experience. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Proficiency with the following technologies:
  • Web: HTML, CSS, JSON, Ajax, and REST APIs
  • Object-oriented Programming: Python, Java, or JavaScript
  • Front-end and Back-end Frameworks: React, Angular, Vue.js, jQuery, Spring Boot, Django, Node.js, Flask, or Svelte
  • Cloud Development: AWS, Azure, or similar cloud platforms
  • Relational Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server
  • Operating System: Windows, Linux
  • Version Control System: Git
• Understanding of modern software design patterns and coding standards.
• Experience architecting, developing, and delivering complex software systems into production.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins) and agile collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence).
• Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS (C2S or GovCloud) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of secure coding practices and government system accreditation processes (e.g., RMF, STIGs).
• Strong, self-motivated desire to learn new programming languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting Intelligence Community (IC) mission systems.
• Experience with geospatial, intelligence, or other mission‑specific data and workflows.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Vault, or Keycloak.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, or similar technologies.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and application performance management.

#Chinook

#NSBA

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Pay Range:

$87,100.00 - $157,450.00

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.