Job Opportunities: full stack developer

Description

The Homeland Sector within Leidos is seeking a Full Stack Software Developer Team Lead, with strong systems, software, cloud, and Agile experience to support a complex program to provide Agile development. In this role the candidate will support the Passenger Systems Program Directorate (PSPD) within Customs and Border Protection (CBP). In this hands-on position, you will work collaboratively to architect, design, build, deliver, and enhance highly available, scalable, real-time systems. You will exercise your judgment in determining and recommending the best designs based on customer business objectives, timelines and other resource constraints. You will participate in and/or direct major deliverables of projects through all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing. The team lead will direct an Agile development team to successfully support all design, creation, maintenance, and testing of JAVA full stack applications.

**This position REQUIRES the candidate to be in Ashburn, VA, twice a week**

Primary Responsibilities:

• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.

• Directly guide, mentor, and coach a team of three senior developers.

• Monitor team performance; resolve impediments; develop and implement solutions for driving improvement.

• Coordinate schedule execution and plan program-wide software/architecture releases.

• Lead Program Increment (PI) Planning from technical aspect. Grooming the objectives and provide technical details, work on architecture.

• Lead cross-team collaboration in support of development, testing, and deployment efforts

• Brief customers on the development progress throughout the PI cycle on program status, including the status of testing, deployment, and release readiness

• Maintain application posture for code coverage and ensure the CM process defined is working for the team.

• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design and define needs for build APIs.

• Maintain high standards of software quality using software development best practices and automated testing.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.

• Collaborate with government customers on requirements development.

• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.

• Lead developers are expected to be hands-on; to contribute and participate as a senior developer when needed

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS and 12+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10+ years of prior relevant experience OR 4 years of directly related experience in lieu of degree

• Must be able to maintain and obtain a CBP Background Investigation prior to start

• Must be a US citizen

• 8 years of hands-on experience using at least 6 the following, but not limited to:

  • Angular,  JavaScript, CSS, & HTML, Springboot, Material UI, JAVA etc.

  • AWS Cloud, Amazon Elastic Kubernete Service (EKS), Ansible, GIT, Rafay

  • RESTful Web Services, Hibernate

  • Oracle/ MySQL/Postgres, microservices, Springboot, Java.

• CI/CD, Experience in Agile development, and UX/UI.

• Experience with wireframe software to formulate effective mockups.

• Must be a self-starter, strong leader, and can work independently with little supervision.

• Knowledge of software design patterns.

• Proficiency with MS Office Products (Word, Excel, Visio, & PowerPoint).

• Proficiency with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with DevOps frameworks.

• Experience with Jira, Confluence.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active DOD Top Secret or DHS CBP BI

• Solid experience as a full stack Java developer.

• AWS,  Microservices, User experience , containerization, CI/CD

• Experience in AWS App Development.

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.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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