Software Developer (Journeyman)

DecisionPoint seeks ten Software Developers to develop, test, document, and maintain mission-critical software capabilities for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. These developers implement approved features, create unit tests, perform maintenance updates, correct defects, and prepare technical documentation supporting secure and reliable software delivery.

The Software Developers work with senior developers, architects, requirements analysts, UI/UX specialists, testers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, and Government stakeholders throughout the software-development lifecycle. They participate in Agile delivery activities and support software integration, demonstrations, testing, releases, and continuous improvement., The Software Developers will:

• Design, develop, test, integrate, document, and maintain assigned software capabilities.

• Implement application features based on approved requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical designs.

• Develop software components, services, interfaces, and supporting application logic.

• Write clean, secure, maintainable, and testable source code.

• Develop and maintain unit tests, integration tests, regression tests, and other automated quality checks.

• Perform application maintenance, component updates, refactoring, and technical-debt reduction.

• Investigate, reproduce, diagnose, and correct software defects.

• Support root-cause analysis and implement durable corrective actions.

• Assist with security remediation by implementing approved source-code, dependency, configuration, or application changes.

• Participate in peer reviews, code reviews, design discussions, and technical walkthroughs.

• Incorporate review feedback and comply with established software-development standards.

• Use approved version-control practices, including branches, commits, merges, pull requests, and release tagging.

• Support continuous integration, automated builds, testing, and deployment activities.

• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including code comments, interface descriptions, API documentation, build instructions, installation procedures, and release information.

• Support software integration and troubleshooting across application, database, interface, infrastructure, and cloud components.

• Collaborate with requirements analysts to clarify requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Collaborate with testers to resolve defects and verify completed corrections.

• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to address identified vulnerabilities and secure-coding concerns.

• Support Government demonstrations, user acceptance testing, operational validation, and stakeholder feedback.

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.

• Provide implementation estimates and identify technical dependencies, assumptions, constraints, risks, and impediments.

• Maintain accurate work status, technical notes, and delivery information in approved Agile and collaboration tools.

• Support deployment, release-readiness, and post-release validation activities.

• Protect sensitive data and comply with applicable federal, DoD, security, privacy, and configuration-management requirements.

• Participate in knowledge sharing, cross-training, and continuous improvement of development and testing practices.

Candidates must possess all the following:

• An active Secret clearance or higher.

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category.

• At least six years of relevant professional experience.

• Experience developing, testing, and maintaining software applications or systems.

• Experience implementing application features from approved requirements, user stories, or technical designs.

• Experience developing and maintaining unit tests.

• Experience investigating and correcting software defects.

• Experience performing software maintenance, updates, or component enhancements.

• Experience preparing or maintaining technical software documentation.

• Experience using version-control and structured source-code management practices.

• Ability to write secure, maintainable, and testable source code.

• Ability to collaborate with developers, architects, analysts, testers, cybersecurity personnel, platform engineers, and Government stakeholders.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively in an Agile software-delivery environment and manage assigned work through completion.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred:

• A relevant software-development or cloud certification from AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Oracle, Red Hat, or another recognized provider.

• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development or modernization programs.

• Experience developing mission-critical, regulated, security-sensitive, or high-availability applications.

• Experience with one or more modern development languages or platforms, such as Java, C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, or comparable technologies.

• Experience developing or integrating RESTful APIs, web services, or system interfaces.

• Experience with relational databases, structured query languages, data-access frameworks, or data modeling.

• Experience with automated testing frameworks and test-driven or behavior-driven development practices.

• Experience with static-code analysis, dependency scanning, software-composition analysis, or other application-security tools.

• Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevSecOps practices.

• Experience with cloud services, containers, microservices, or modern application-platform technologies.

• Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, or comparable development and collaboration tools.

• Familiarity with DoD security requirements, DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, configuration management, and software-release controls.

• Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility requirements and accessible web-development practices.