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 Lead Software Engineer.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Operates independently or as a team lead, selects appropriate persistence technologies (e.g., EF, Dapper), defines source control strategies, and designs subsystem infrastructure.
Work & Complexity: Tackles complex problems with thorough analysis, manages cross-functional delivery, and improves system reliability and scalability.
Quality & Independence: Consistently meets deadlines even under challenging conditions, enforces standards through detailed reviews, and establishes productivity benchmarks for the team.
Teamwork & Communication: Provides functional leadership by setting objectives, organizing resources, resolving conflicts, and engaging confidently with both internal and external stakeholders.
Consulting & Engagement: Troubleshoots advanced client issues, supports requirements gathering, and contributes to vendor presentations or proposal activities.
The Full Stack Developer will be a part of an agile software development team and integral in performing software development, O&M support, and adhere to agile methodology and scrum ceremonies. This role will design and implement backed APIs using Java and Spring Boot, design and build secure and responsive UIs using React, and develop optimized PostgreSQL schemas and queries. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated strong verbal and written skills, experiences with the technology and business tools listed below, and will have proven experience delivering large-scale enterprise applications from concept through deployment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide full-stack design and development support using Java, Spring Model View Controller (MVC) Framework/Spring Security/Spring Boot, React, and PostgreSQL.
- Design and implement modern UI components using React, Typescript/JavaScript, and reusable design patterns.
- Implement normalized PostgreSQL schemas and entity relationships supporting system scalability.
- Develop and maintain secure RESTful APIs for data access and integration.
- Support and document data migration efforts, ensuring integrity and consistency between legacy and new systems.
- Plan and execute application deployments, version control, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Assist in supporting all aspects of the project to include all phases of life cycle development.
- Ensure compliance with 508 accessibility, enterprise security practices, and other practices as needed.
Required For This Opportunity:
- Active Top-Secret Clearance and a minimum of 7+ years of experience is required. (Interim Top Secret will not be accepter)
- Computer Science background w/ degree (Bachelor’s or Master's) in field.
- Must have strong User Interface (UI) design and developing skills using React, JavaScript, and CSS.
- Must have strong development experience required in the following technologies/areas: Java, Spring Framework/Security 6+, Spring Boot 3+, Hibernate 6+, SQL/PLSQL, PostgreSQL, RESTful APIs, Maven build tool, and Git/GitLab.
- Must have experience with database design and data migration
- Additional experience required in the following technologies/areas: AWS (S3, EC2, ECS, Aurora, CloudWatch), Keycloak, Kubernetes, Maven, and Docker
- Experience with Agile and Scrum and Kanban frameworks/methodologies.
- Experience with Atlassian tools to include Jira and Confluence.
- Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and automation.
Nice to Have Skills:
- Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
- Self-motivated with strong initiative to help team grow.
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 (interim not accepted) and minimum 7+ years of experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Strong UI design and development skills using React, JavaScript, and CSS
- Backend development using Java, Spring Framework/Security 6+, Spring Boot 3+, and Hibernate 6+
- Database experience: PostgreSQL, SQL/PLSQL, database design, and data migration
- Develop and maintain secure RESTful APIs
- Build and manage projects with Maven and source control using Git/GitLab
- Experience with AWS services (S3, EC2, ECS, Aurora, CloudWatch)
- Experience with Keycloak, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Experience with CI/CD tools and automation
- Experience working in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)
- Exceptional analytical, documentation, planning, and time-management skills
- Self-motivated with strong initiative to help team grow
AIS (Applied Information Sciences) Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.






