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Leidos

Senior Software Engineer

Leidos

. Lead the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment of software supporting the customer’s GEOINT mission .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $107,900 - $195,050 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AngularAWSAzureCloudDjangoFlaskJavaJavaScriptJenkinsjQueryLinuxMicroservicesMySQLNode.jsPostgresPythonReactSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQLSvelteVaultVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment of software supporting the customer’s GEOINT mission
  • Translate mission, systems, and technical requirements into scalable software solutions
  • Lead technical design for application components, services, APIs, and integrations
  • Develop and maintain high-quality production software
  • Design and implement scalable backend services and modern web applications
  • Evaluate architectural approaches and recommend solutions
  • Develop and integrate RESTful APIs, microservices, and data services
  • Design and optimize database schemas, queries, and data-access strategies
  • Troubleshoot complex application, integration, performance, and production issues
  • Lead root-cause analysis for significant technical problems
  • Develop automated unit, integration, and system-level testing strategies
  • Support CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud, and containerized environments
  • Identify and address technical debt, reliability issues, scalability limitations, and security concerns
  • Serve as Scrum Master for an Agile software development team, facilitating sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
  • Partner with Product Owners and development team members to manage sprint priorities, remove impediments, and support timely delivery
  • Promote Agile best practices, collaboration, continuous improvement, team efficiency, and software delivery
  • Mentor and guide junior engineers
  • Collaborate with Test Engineering, DevSecOps, Systems Engineering, Security, and mission stakeholders
  • Support production releases and operational troubleshooting
  • Evaluate emerging technologies for mission applicability
  • Contribute to technical documentation, engineering standards, and development roadmaps

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • US citizenship is required per contract
  • Active Top Secret/SCI with the ability to successfully pass a Polygraph examination
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience, or Master’s with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience
  • May possess a Doctorate in technical domain
  • Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of degree
  • Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JSON, Ajax, REST APIs, Python, Java, JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue.js, jQuery, Spring Boot, Django, Node.js, Flask, Svelte, AWS, Azure, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Windows, Linux, and Git
  • Strong experience with software architecture and application design
  • Strong experience developing APIs, services, and/or distributed applications
  • Strong database development and data-modeling experience
  • Experience with modern DevSecOps and CI/CD practices
  • Experience troubleshooting complex production and integration issues
  • Experience serving as a Scrum Master or performing Scrum Master responsibilities within an Agile software development team
  • Demonstrated understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog management, and iterative software delivery
  • Experience using Agile project management tools such as Jira and Confluence
  • Preferred: experience supporting Intelligence Community mission systems; Agile certifications; geospatial, intelligence, or mission-specific data; AWS and cloud-native architectures; Infrastructure-as-Code; GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Vault, or Keycloak; relational and search databases; event-driven architectures; observability, monitoring, logging, and application performance management