Junior Application Developer 675

About the role

We are seeking a Junior Application Developer for one of our PRIME CONTRACTS that offers exciting opportunities to support essential services and mission critical activities across the enterprise. Potential to telework up to 2 days a week!

Our mission supports the Government Corporate Management Services (CMS) by providing full life cycle support services through the sustainment, modernization, and transformation of the enterprise corporate applications.

These applications are used across the government enterprise and are critical to the daily functions of thousands of users across acquisition, business, finance, HR, training, recruitment, program management, security, logistics and more. Come join our diverse and growing team with lots of opportunities!

• Collaborate within an Agile development team supporting and modernizing multiple business and financial enterprise applications, including a recently modernized Corporate Management Information System (CMIS).
• Develop new features, enhance existing capabilities, and maintain applications across a modern enterprise technology stack.
• Support multiple mission-critical enterprise systems with similar architectures and technologies, while contributing to future modernization initiatives.
• Troubleshoot user-reported issues, resolve defects, and optimize application performance to improve system reliability and user experience.
• Design and implement proactive monitoring and alerting solutions to identify potential system issues before they impact operations or availability.
• Develop and maintain applications utilizing technologies such as Python, Django, Docker, AWS, Java, JavaScript, and ReactJS and/or Vue.js.
• Manage and optimize Docker containers to support efficient application deployment, scalability, and streamlined development workflows.
• Rapidly diagnose and resolve technical issues spanning application code, infrastructure, integrations, and data environments.
• Apply best practices for security, data integrity, and compliance to safeguard sensitive business and financial information.
• Participate in Agile development activities including sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, demos, and iterative delivery cycles.
• Adapt quickly to evolving priorities, customer requirements, and modernization efforts within a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, plus three (3) years of software development or engineering experience.
• A master's degree in technical discipline and one (1) year of experience.
• An additional four (4) years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Experience developing and maintaining enterprise applications using Python.
• Experience working with front-end technologies such as JavaScript, ReactJS, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving application, infrastructure, and system integration issues in a production environment.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies, including participation in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and iterative development cycles.
• Ability and willingness to quickly learn new technologies, tools, and enterprise platforms in support of modernization efforts.
• Experience developing, updating, and maintaining technical documentation, system documentation and user support materials.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Must be able to work between the core hours of Monday-Friday, 10:00AM-2:00PM. Exceptions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Technology Stack of application(s) with which this role will interact

• Java
• Python
• Django
• AWS
• ReactJS
• PostgreSQL
• Docker
• Vue.js

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting business, financial, or other enterprise applications in a secure environment is preferred.
• Experience managing the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) to include requirements definition, design, development, test, deployment, and sustainment
• Experience supporting applications in cloud or containerized environments, including technologies such as AWS and Docker.
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with the CI/CD

Pay and benefits

The estimated salary range for this position is between $140,000-$190,000 (annualized USD). This range reflects the typical pay for the role and is one part of the company's comprehensive compensation package. Actual salaries are influenced by several factors, such as location, the individual's education, skills, experience, and competencies, as well as contract affordability and organizational needs.

What's in It for You?

• Flexible work environment
• A team mentality - work with friendly, like-minded professionals
• Work with innovative, cutting edge technologies

Enjoy extremely competitive compensation and benefits

• A work-life balance you can count on
• Opportunities to grow and advance your career on our dime

The Benefits You Get with Freedom

• Amazing benefits including matching 401k, fully paid medical, and more
• Generous paid time off - including paid site closure days
• Competitive salary offerings
• Paid training and tuition reimbursement
• Referral bonuses
• Fully paid life and disability
• Annual logo wear allowance

Company sponsored events (game nights, holiday party, summer party, happy hours)

• Interested in learning more about Freedom and our culture?
• Contact us today!
• We're constantly hosting hiring events in our office and elsewhere, to help you get a sense of what life is like at Freedom before joining the team.