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Senior Software Engineer

Steampunk


Job Location:

McLean, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 100000 - 185000
Posted: 22 August 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 19 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer you will work with a team of developers to deliver software features APIs and microservice-based solutions. We are looking for candidates with experience designing developing and delivering modern software solutions using Agile and DevSecOps practices including CI/CD build and release management automated testing and cloud-native application development.

Contributions

Responsibilities include:

  • Design develop and deploy microservice-based applications and cloud-native solutions using Java and React
  • Collaborate with stakeholders designers and business analysts to refine functional and technical requirements
  • Troubleshoot software quality security and reliability issues
  • Participate in code reviews quality assurance activities and the establishment of engineering best practices
  • Automate unit and functional tests
  • Identify technical problems perform root cause analysis and develop updates and fixes
  • Support debugging troubleshooting and testing of software
  • Document software code features and training guides
  • Utilize containerization technologies (e.g. Docker) and virtualization where appropriate to support scalable application deployment
  • Implement solutions and provide continuous improvement recommendations
  • Present technical solutions demonstrations and implementation approaches to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Qualifications

Required:

  • Ability to obtain a U.S. government Public Trust Security Clearance
  • Bachelors degree
  • 5 years of software development experience using Java and React in an Agile environment
  • Experience developing cloud-native applications RESTful APIs and distributed services
  • 3 years of experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
  • Experience developing deploying and supporting applications using Docker containers
  • Experience implementing automated testing frameworks including unit integration and functional testing

Preferred:

  • Experience supporting technical demonstrations or tech challenges
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary including but not limited to geographic location contractual requirements education knowledge skills competencies and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $100000 to $185000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunks total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Identity Statement

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Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland Federal Civilian Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story visit .


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