Job Description:
Quevera is seeking a highly experienced Principal Back End Developer with an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph to support mission-critical programs in Annapolis Junction, Maryland. This role offers flexibility of up to 16 hours of telework per week, based on program needs and mission priorities.
As a Principal Back End Developer, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for architecting, developing, and overseeing complex backend software solutions supporting national security missions. You will lead engineering teams, drive software architecture decisions, establish development standards, and ensure the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-performance systems. Working closely with software engineers, system engineers, and mission stakeholders, you will leverage cutting edge to develop innovative solutions that meet evolving mission requirements.
Job Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical lead for multiple software development teams supporting mission-critical programs
- Architect, design, develop, maintain, and enhance complex backend applications, services, and distributed systems
- Develop and oversee cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services and modern software architectures
- Design and implement RESTful APIs, microservices, complex algorithms, and high-performance software solutions using Python, Java, and C++
- Design, optimize, and maintain PostgreSQL databases, data models, and advanced SQL queries
- Analyze user and system requirements to derive software architecture, performance, and scalability solutions
- Integrate software components across applications, systems, and operating environments
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex software defects, performance issues, and integration challenges
- Lead code reviews, testing activities, quality assurance efforts, and software development best practices
- Collaborate with system engineers, architects, and mission stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle
- Mentor software engineers and provide technical guidance to development teams
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, design artifacts, and implementation plans
- Recommend new technologies, tools, and processes to improve software development and mission effectiveness
- Participate in Agile development activities, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and technical reviews
- Ensure quality control and successful delivery of all developed and modified software
Minimum Requirements:
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required
- Twenty (20) years of experience as a Software Engineer supporting programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university
- Four (4) additional years of Software Engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree
- Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead for software development teams
- Extensive experience designing, developing, and maintaining complex backend applications and distributed systems
- Expert-level experience with Python, Java, and C++
- Experience designing and implementing complex algorithms and high-performance software solutions
- Extensive experience with relational databases, including PostgreSQL
- Experience designing complex database interfaces, schemas, and advanced SQL queries
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), deploying API Gateway and Lambda’s
- Experience integrating software systems across diverse operating environments and mission platforms
- Experience developing and executing software test procedures and quality assurance processes
- Experience utilizing Git for source code management and version control
- Experience generating and reviewing technical documentation and software design artifacts
- Experience working within Agile software development environments
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, and related collaboration tools
- Experience ensuring quality control of developed and modified software
- Demonstrated ability to analyze system performance standards, derive technical solutions, and resolve complex software engineering challenges
- Proven ability to mentor engineers, oversee development teams, and drive successful project execution
Why Join Quevera?
Award-Winning Culture
Quevera was recognized as a Top Workplace in the Washington, DC/Baltimore region for 2025, marking our fifth consecutive year receiving this distinction based on employee feedback.
Outstanding Benefits
We invest in our employees and their families through a highly competitive benefits package, including:
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage (optional plan)
- Competitive options for Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
- Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Employer-paid life insurance
- $5,000 annually for education, training, certifications, and professional development
- Career advancement through our structured iQTouch Program
- Up to 6% 401(k) match
- Additional 4% profit-sharing contribution, at company discretion
Quevera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
- 20 years of software engineering experience supporting similar programs
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related (or +4 years experience instead)
- Demonstrated experience as a technical lead for software development teams
- Expert-level experience with Python
- Expert-level experience with Java
- Expert-level experience with C++
- Experience designing and maintaining PostgreSQL databases and advanced SQL
- Experience with AWS, including deploying API Gateway and Lambda
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices
- Experience designing complex algorithms and high-performance systems
- Experience integrating software across diverse operating environments
- Experience developing and executing software test procedures and QA
- Experience using Git for source code management
- Experience working in Agile development environments
- Experience using Jira and Confluence
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and provide technical guidance
- Experience producing and reviewing technical documentation and design artifacts
What We Do
Quevera provides custom software engineering services across the entire spectrum of the software development lifecycle. We have extensive experience in partnering with our customers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the business problems presented to federal agencies, local governments, financial institutions, health care organizations and educators. Quevera is a company founded by a core group of technologists and business professionals who shared a revolutionary vision for how a software company could succeed while adhering to set of core values that governed its partnerships with its customers, employees and corporate partners. With over a century of combined experience in the government, intelligence and corporate sectors, we have the experience and technical know-how knowledge to first listen, understand and deliver innovative products and services designed to reach the core problem for unique business problems.
