Junior Software Developer

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Junior Software Developer to join our innovative team in Montgomery, AL.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Perform software engineering tasks, including requirements analysis, design, building, and unit testing of Change Requests (CRs) and Deficiency Reports (DRs) for the CPM FoS.

• Exercise industry-standard Agile software practices, participating in release planning, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinements, and retrospectives.

• Work directly with Requirements Managers and Business Analysts to refine technical solutions, translate user stories into software design, and ensure developed applications deliver at least 85–90% of agreed-upon sprint functionality without priority defects.

• Read and interpret complex legacy codebase architectures, debug system interfaces, and build stable API integrations to pass data smoothly between CMOS, OLVIMS, and MARKS.

• Provide software engineering services across development, test, and production environments hosted within Cloud One (AWS GovCloud, Azure) and DISA infrastructures.

• Create, modify, and optimize database solutions for application CRs and sustainment activities using Oracle (SQL, PL/T SQL, SQL Developer) and MS SQL Server software.

• Utilize modern version control (Git) and automated CI/CD tools to deliver quality source code to government repositories.

• Integrate various static code analysis toolsets (e.g., SonarQube, Checkmarx) to audit code modularity and security. Resolve high/medium vulnerability findings prior to final delivery of software releases.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical equivalent.

• 2+ years of software development experience working across a mixed ecosystem of legacy enterprise applications and modernized cloud-hosted networks.

• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages (such as Java, C++, or C#) and web technologies (Oracle ADF, JavaScript, ASP.NET, or XML).

• Competency writing database procedures, queries, triggers, and views within relational management structures (Oracle, SQL Server).

• Active DoD 8577 / 8140 Compliance (IASAE Level I or IAT Level II, such as CompTIA Security+ CE) prior to onboarding.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience modernization effort translating legacy features into cloud-native features.

• Familiarity with containerized deployments or working within secure government DevSecOps structures.

• Experience working across a large team to drive a security agenda and working with complex, intertwined systems and data flows.

Clearance Requirements:

• An active Secret security clearance is required.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.

• Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

• Frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.