Junior software developer Jobs in Washington, DC

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at .

We are seeking a Lead Software Developer to join our team and support our federal customer.

The Lead Software Developer will provide senior development leadership responsible for building, maintaining, and enhancing the core application components supporting operations.

*This position is contingent upon contract award.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead development of enterprise applications supporting all business operations.
• Build new API-based integration services supporting communication with CMS enterprise systems and external healthcare data providers.
• Design application enhancements supporting legislative changes including Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) implementation and future Medicare policy changes.
• Lead code development activities across Agile sprint cycles including technical estimation, backlog refinement, code reviews, and release execution.
• Collaborate closely with architects and DevSecOps teams integrating automated testing, code scanning, and release automation processes into development workflows.
• Develop operational dashboards, business intelligence integrations, and user-facing administrative applications supporting CMS stakeholders.
• Maintain application performance optimization supporting large-scale transaction processing workloads.
• Troubleshoot production application failures, investigate root cause analysis, and support high-priority production incident resolution.

Work Experience and Job Skills:

Required Experience:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software development, designing and building enterprise-grade applications.
• At least 5 years of experience serving in a technical leadership role, leading software development teams and providing technical direction.
• Extensive experience designing, developing, and maintaining complex, high-volume enterprise applications.
• Strong experience developing business-critical applications supporting high-volume transaction processing.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, microservices, and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience developing and maintaining business rules engines and workflow-driven applications.
• Hands-on experience building cloud-native applications using modern application architecture patterns.
• Experience supporting the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Proven experience working within Agile development environments using Scrum or Kanban methodologies.
• Experience utilizing modern DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment automation.
• Experience developing secure, scalable, high-performance applications for enterprise production environments.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with internal and external systems using APIs, messaging, or event-driven architectures.
• Experience supporting applications within federal healthcare, healthcare claims processing, financial transaction systems, or other highly regulated industries is strongly preferred.
• Experience mentoring software engineers, conducting code reviews, and establishing development best practices.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and driving continuous application performance, scalability, and reliability improvements.

Preferred Experience:

• Healthcare application development
• Medicare claims processing systems
• Business rules engine development
• Large-scale transaction processing systems

Required Technical Skills:

Development Languages

• Python (primary development language)
• SQL
• Scala
• Bash scripting
• YAML configuration management
• Groovy scripting

Software Development

• Full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• REST API development
• Application architecture design
• Object-oriented programming
• Secure coding standards
• Enterprise application debugging

Development Tools

• GitHub source control
• Visual Studio Code
• Jenkins integration
• Code review tools
• Dependency management frameworks

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree required with a concentration in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Information Systems or related experience.

Communication Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written skills, ability to present proposals and performance data, comfortable interfacing all levels of organization
• Ability to write clear and concise creative content in a highly confidential manner

Travel:

• This position is primarily remote with occasional travel (up to 5%) as required.

Environmental Requirements:

• Mainly sedentary; in an office environment.
• May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds.
• Flexible in working extended hours

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.

Unissant, Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets)