Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Confidential

Public Trust/Other Required:

Other

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Angular, Java (Programming Language), Software Development, Spring Boot

Certifications:

AWS certification - AWS

Experience:

7 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER PRINCIPAL

• Education: Related Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience: 7+ years of related experience
• Location: Fully remote - East Coast core hours M-F 9am-4pm
• Clearance: Current Public Trust Preferred
• Required Technical Skills and experience:
  • Must be AWS Certified
  • Strong hands-on experience in full stack development with back-end services and implementing capabilities to support web applications using microservices.
  • Experience and evidence of proactive and clear communicating with business stakeholders.
  • Experience taking ownership of code changes to meet user needs- evaluates current systems to develop solutions to stakeholder challenges, and applies a user-centric mindset in analysis and implementation.
  • 7+ years of Java/J2EE (Java 19 or higher preferred) work experience
  • 7+ Spring Boot experience - Building and coding backend applications and/or models using Spring/Spring Boot framework
  • Java Rest API’s / Microservices
  • Angular 19+
  • 5+ years of AWS experience with ECS (Building docker images and deploying them in cluster) ECR (Docker)
  • 2+ years of Oracle 19 (SQL and PL/SQL) and/or PostgreSQL experience – ability to write and understand SQL queries
  • Experience in federal Agile, remote environments using tools like Rally or Jira
  • Terraforms and Gitlab pipeline configuration
  • Node / NPM
  • Gradle / Maven
  • Gitlab Runner, Docker
  • Junit and Karma testing frameworks
  • REST Web Services
  • Experience with Single Sign On / Okta

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop and modernize applications, including migration to cloud environments.
• Work within Agile/Scrum teams, using Rally to manage and update user stories and tasks throughout 3‑week sprints.
• Analyze and implement user stories to meet functional and non-functional requirements accurately.
• Write clean, maintainable code with comprehensive unit tests to ensure performance, reliability, and a consistent user experience.
• Enforce unit testing and code coverage standards before commits/merges in GitLab to reduce defects.
• Implement and maintain reusable, standardized components to improve development efficiency and UX consistency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, testers, product owners, and stakeholders) to deliver high-quality software.
• Attend and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives).
• Complete sprint tasks on time with minimal defects, proactively communicating status and blockers.
• Demonstrate completed work, obtain acceptance for user stories/defects, and incorporate feedback each sprint.
• Monitor and respond to emails and team communications promptly.
• Partner with the team to identify, prevent, and resolve defects before production release.
• Share technical and domain knowledge to mentor teammates and strengthen overall team capability.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts, frameworks, and tools to support continuous testing.
• Create and execute test plans ensuring thorough coverage, traceability, and alignment with requirements.
• Implement and execute performance tests to identify and help remediate performance bottlenecks.
• Conduct exploratory testing to identify edge cases and gaps in coverage.
• Analyze test results, document defects, and work closely with application teams to drive timely resolution.

The likely salary range for this position is $122,400 - $165,600. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

 

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.