Software Engineer

Northwood Mortgage Ltd.; Chantilly, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel reimbursement

Company benefits

Job summary

NAOVI is seeking a Software Engineer to support the enterprise language services team with a deep understanding of Kubernetes, containerization and cloud-native technologies. The selected candidate will implement the project’s Kubernetes-based infrastructure and applications.

The role requires active TS/SCI w/FS polygraph clearance, U.S. citizenship, and experience in full lifecycle software development within Agile environments.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI w/FS polygraph clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Experience in full lifecycle software development and technical project management is required.
• Experience estimating and managing software schedules and deliverables.
• Experience in Agile development environments is required.
• Ability to translate requirements into design and develop software.
• Experience designing system interfaces and coordinating program meetings.
• Experience developing SPAs with HTML5, CSS3 and Angular 2+.

Responsibilities

• Implement Kubernetes-based infrastructure and applications for enterprise language services.
• Contribute to detailed software design and associated deliverables.
• Develop RESTful services and SPAs using Java, Spring, Angular, and related tech.
• Collaborate in a fast-paced, Agile team and coordinate with stakeholders.

Skills

Active TS/SCI w/FS polygraph

US Citizen

Technical project management

Software schedule management

Agile development

Software design

Requirements to design

System interfaces design

Program coordination

SPA development (HTML5, CSS3, Angular)

RESTful services (Java, Scala, Spring)

DynamoDB

Web services protocols

JUnit/Jasmine testing

Git/Jenkins/Nexus

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Nexus

Tomcat

Job description

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At Novel Application, we’re focused on finding and keeping top talent. We are looking for highly motivated and experienced personnel who are willing to learn and share that knowledge with fellow employees. We believe that together we can solve any challenge that faces our customers.

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Residency Status: ALL CANDIDATES MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN

Security Clearance: ALL Candidates MUST currently Possess an Active TS/SCI w/FS polygraph for consideration of this position. No clearance sponsorships for this position.

Time Type: Full-Time, Daytime Schedule - 100% onsite

Travel Reimbursement: Yes (within a 50-mile radius to the worksite)

Company Benefits: Yes

Close Date: Friday, September 25, 2026

Company Overview

NAOVI (Novel Applications, Inc.) is a premier technology services company that provides solutions in the areas of Cyber Security, Information Management and Systems Integration. NAOVI is a business that combines experience, creativity, flexibility, pragmatism, and cost-effective solutions in order to deliver measurable business value to our clients.

Headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, NAOVI employs engineers, analysts, IT specialists and other professionals who strive to be the best at everything they do.

NAOVI is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled. Visit our company website at www.novelapplications.com to review and apply for our current openings.

Job Description

NAOVI is seeking a Software Engineer to support the enterprise language services team. The selected candidate would have a deep understanding of Kubernetes, containerization and cloud-native technologies. The selected candidate will be responsible for the implementation of the project’s Kubernetes-based infrastructure and applications. The tasks are as follows:

Mandatory Skills

• Current Active TSSCI w/FS polygraph security clearance.
• At this time our company is not offering clearance sponsorships.
• All candidates must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Demonstrated experience in technical project management with full lifecycle software development.
• Demonstrated experience estimating and managing software development schedules and deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Demonstrated experience developing detailed software design and associated deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience in translating customer and system requirements into design.
• Demonstrated experience designing new system interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating, supporting, and participating in program meetings and reviews.
• Demonstrated experience developing Single Page Applications using HTML5, CSS3, and Angular 21+.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience developing Applications and RESTful web services using the following technologies or something similar: Solr, Elastic, Postgres, Java, Scala, RDS, Spring Framework, Spring Security, and Spring Boot.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience working with non-relational database systems such as DynamoDB (other on-the-job database experience accepted).
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with and troubleshooting of Internet/Web related protocols and technologies (e.g. Tomcat, Nodejs, Web Services, and SSL).
• Demonstrated hands-on experience developing JUnit and Jasmine tests and experience with testing platforms such as Jest or Karma.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience working with DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, and Nexus.

Desired Skills and demonstrated Experience

Skills and demonstrated knowledge that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:

• Demonstrated recent experience with the agency suite of applications providing repository and search services that enables the agency to find the information they need.
• Demonstrated experience working in a fast-paced, Lean Agile environment.
• Demonstrated recent experience with government agency profile and alerting services that represents a "prospective search" tool that sifts through incoming stream looking for items that match a user’s profile and alerts upon match.
• Demonstrated recent experience with the governments agency discovery and recommendation services that allows a user to discover data they wouldn’t ordinarily know about and represents an information filtering system that leverages content-based approaches to discriminate between interesting and uninteresting items for a user.
• Demonstrated experience with the government agency’s Pre -NLP processing pipeline to remove boilerplate text, portion marks and non-narrative content.
• Demonstrated experience with the government agency’s federated search service that allows users to federate searches across external data systems .
• Demonstrated experience with the government agency’s tagging and folder services and applications that allow users to curate and organize documents .
• Demonstrated experience with agency IT systems, missions, and strategies.
• Demonstrated experience communicating with senior customers, senior management, and implementation partners.
• Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining JIRA tickets.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS and Azure cloud services.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining constructive relationships among customers, stakeholders, technical teams, and contractors.