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.
Project Summary
AIS is seeking a .NET & React Full Stack Developer to join our team and support a mission-critical federal client in Washington, DC.
In this role, you will contribute to the development, enhancement, and maintenance of secure web applications and services that support high-impact operations. You will work hands-on with the .NET framework and modern front-end technologies to build clean, efficient, and reliable solutions that integrate seamlessly across backend, frontend, and cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack application features using C#, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, SQL Server, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
- Build responsive, user-friendly front-end interfaces using React and modern UI development practices
- Develop scalable and secure backend components and APIs to support application functionality
- Modify and enhance existing code to improve performance, usability, and maintainability
- Integrate third-party tools, APIs, and services as needed
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including planning, requirements analysis, development, testing, and deployment
- Write clean, maintainable, and secure code aligned with best practices and team guidelines
- Conduct unit and integration testing to ensure functionality and reliability
- Troubleshoot and resolve application, integration, and performance issues
- Use Git/GitLab for version control, branching, and team collaboration
- Assist with remediation of code and package vulnerabilities identified through security scans
Required For This Opportunity
- Active Top Secret clearance is required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- 3–5 years of professional software development experience using C# and the .NET framework
- Hands-on experience with ASP.NET, Entity Framework, and SQL Server
- Experience developing front-end applications or components using React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
- Familiarity with architectural patterns and API styles, including REST and/or RPC
- Experience integrating front-end components with back-end services and APIs
Nice to Have Skills
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
- Basic understanding of DevOps practices or exposure to CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred)
- Experience working with Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) such as Entity Framework
- Knowledge of relational or NoSQL database design principles
- Experience with containerization tools such as Docker
- Exposure to UI component libraries or modern front-end design patterns
- Relevant certifications in .NET development, React/front-end development, cloud technologies, or software engineering
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.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
- 3-5 years professional software development experience using C# and the .NET framework
- Hands-on experience with ASP.NET
- Hands-on experience with Entity Framework
- Hands-on experience with SQL Server
- Experience developing front-end applications or components using React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
- Familiarity with architectural patterns and API styles, including REST and/or RPC
- Experience integrating front-end components with back-end services and APIs
- Experience using Git/GitLab for version control and team collaboration
- Assist with remediation of code and package vulnerabilities identified through security scans
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)
- Basic understanding of DevOps practices or exposure to CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred)
- Knowledge of relational or NoSQL database design principles
- Experience with containerization tools such as Docker
- Exposure to UI component libraries or modern front-end design patterns
- Relevant certifications in .NET, React/front-end development, cloud technologies, or software engineering
AIS (Applied Information Sciences) Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AIS (Applied Information Sciences) and has not been reviewed or approved by AIS (Applied Information Sciences).
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee ownership via an ESOP is emphasized and contributes meaningful long‑term value to total rewards. Equity participation is positioned as a core part of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is consistently described alongside the ESOP. Together these programs are framed as key pillars of financial benefits.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan choices, plus dental and vision, are highlighted as part of a comprehensive offering. Health coverage is paired with PTO and paid holidays to round out the package.
AIS (Applied Information Sciences) Insights
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.







