When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.
Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.
Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.
Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.
Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.
What are we looking for?
At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.
Working@AIS
At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Software Engineer.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Works across multiple languages and platforms, designs and implements architectural decisions, applies design patterns, cloud-native services, IAAS/PAAS/SAAS basics, and secure coding practices (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
Work & Complexity: Performs complex tasks under limited guidance, integrates and troubleshoots distributed or cloud services, and optimizes performance and scalability.
Quality & Independence: Sets a high bar for code quality, multitasks effectively, owns and corrects errors quickly, and drives continuous improvement.
Teamwork & Communication: Leads code reviews, mentors teammates, and translates technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
Consulting & Engagement: Works directly with clients without oversight, writes technical RFP content when needed, nurtures client relationships, and manages routine client concerns.
The Full Stack Developer will provide development and operations & maintenance (O&M) support for a mission-critical, production Java application supporting a Postgres backend and running on Tomcat/JBoss application servers. This role supports a secure AWS cloud environment and requires close collaboration with both government and contractor teams. The developer will be involved throughout the full application lifecycle, from requirements gathering and development through deployment and production support.
Key Responsibilities
Provide full lifecycle development and O&M support for a production Java-based application.
Gather, analyze, and develop enhancement specifications and technical requirements based on system owner and stakeholder input.
Design, develop, test, and deploy new application functionality in an AWS cloud environment.
Support production environments, including troubleshooting, issue resolution, and ongoing maintenance.
Develop and maintain responsive, user-friendly interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks.
Collaborate with cross-functional government and contractor teams to ensure mission objectives are met.
Participate in code reviews, system testing, and implementation planning.
Ensure application security, performance, and scalability in compliance with government standards.
Required for This Opportunity
Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI eligibility.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (Master’s preferred but not required).
Minimum 8 years of hands-on full stack development experience.
Strong experience with Java (JEE development).
Advanced JavaScript and AJAX application development skills.
Angular (version 14 or higher) with 5+ years of hands-on experience.
Experience with Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA.
Hands-on experience with Tomcat and/or JBoss application servers.
Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL databases.
Experience working in an AWS cloud environment.
Ability to work full-time onsite in Chantilly, VA.
Nice to Have Skills
Experience using Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.).
Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
What We Do
AIS (Applied Information Sciences) provides software and systems engineering services to government agencies and businesses across the United States. We specialize in cloud services, DevOps, custom application development, and IT services. Our areas of expertise include custom application development, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Office 365, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, User Experience (UX), business intelligence/advanced analytics and IoT, and Managed Services. Our customers include a broad range of organizations, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, and include state and local governments as well as defense and national security agencies. Our analysis-driven approach to solving business problems—combined with our commitment to deadlines and budgets—results in successful projects and long-term relationships with our clients. We're a top-tier cloud partner for Microsoft, Amazon and Equinix with proven capabilities and a track record of success. AIS is a Microsoft gold partner with six competencies and a Microsoft National Solution Provider (NSP). From over 750,000 Microsoft partners, there are less than 50 partners that have been selected for inclusion in the NSP organization. Microsoft chooses partners for this program that have proven capabilities to scale to the needs of large enterprises across the United States. Founded in 1982, AIS is a growing and privately held company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with offices in Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Indiana, and India. Check out our opportunities at careers.ais.com.
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