Entry Level Software Developer

About the role

The Leidos Maritime ASET team has an opening for a junior (entry level) software developer to work on the design and coding with software solutions for a 6 month – temporary to permanent hire position. The ideal candidate has a familiarity with and a baseline understanding of software development concepts, developing coding skills using different tools, and ambition towards future projects in support of the mission.

Primary Responsibilities

• Possess competence with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Work with Docker, AWS Cloud, and have familiarity with JSON APIs.
• Create and document new and existing functionality within software version control repositories (GitLab).
• Utilize DevOps principals and tools to deliver new features within an Agile construct.
• Develop configurations and features for processing Safety of Navigation (SoN) data through an Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Machine Learning (ML) application.
• Develop API and integrate databases for interaction with React frameworks, using various open-source packages for visualization and data filtering.
• Apply best practices in unit and build testing.
• Collaborate with team members to assess tickets ensuring proper testing and functionality per User Story Acceptance Criteria.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 0+ years of prior relevant experience.
• 0+ years of experience with Python.
• 0+ years of experience with modern JavaScript development framework.
• 0+ years of experience with unit testing, continuous integration tools, and Gitlab version control.
• Proactive self-starter with a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in software development projects or software integration projects in a service-oriented environment (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) or virtualization environment.
• Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work, follow tasks to their logical conclusion, and make sure everything is done to the right standard.
• Good attention to detail.
• Able to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing.
• Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context.
• US Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• 0+ years of experience with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and/or Computer Vision (CV) Technologies (AWS Textract, Tesseract, OpenCV).
• 0+ years of experience with AWS cloud formation templates and/or AWS CDK.
• Experience with 2D data (HTML Canvas, OpenLayers, Leaflet, GeoJSON, Godot).
• AWS Solutions or DevOps certification.
• Team Collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence).
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range: $57,850.00 - $104,575.00

Additional details about pay and benefits are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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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