Top Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

Lead the engineering organization owning data architecture, platform decisions, and delivery discipline. Be a hands-on technical leader setting engineering standards, driving ML/AI ops, ensuring federal-grade compliance, and hiring and growing high-velocity teams to align engineering output with commercial and federal product needs.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work onsite with government clients to deploy, customize, and support advanced software platforms and solutions, while ensuring mission success.

The role involves building AI applications for government, architecting deployments, collaborating with research, and ensuring effective customer integration.

Design, build, and maintain cloud-native full-stack applications and backend services that support investment risk analysis. Own end-to-end delivery, contribute to architecture, apply automated testing and CI/CD, collaborate with stakeholders, reduce technical debt, and ensure reliable, observable data and analytics for portfolio risk and simulations.

Develop and ship production-quality mobile apps using React Native and native iOS/Android technologies. Write performant, maintainable code, participate in design discussions, support prototyping and internal testing, and test/debug across multiple mobile devices.

Provide 24x7 production and non-production Microsoft SQL Server DBA support including installation, configuration, patching, backups, recovery, performance tuning, capacity planning, migrations, change management, SSIS/SSRS development, T-SQL coding, security and technical documentation within an Agile, multi-tenant environment.

Design, build, test, and deploy wargame-specific software and integrated GIS-based common operating picture tools. Create multi-user front-end interfaces, integrate and dynamically update databases, and support planning, execution, and post-game analysis for HQ USAF wargames.

Customize and enhance the ServiceNow platform within a Nuvolo environment. Develop applications using JavaScript/GlideScript, perform system integrations, gather stakeholder requirements, create documentation, test solutions, troubleshoot issues, and implement best practices to ensure optimal performance and scalability.

Design, build, and scale the Substantiation Platform for validating and reconciling financial data. Provide architectural leadership and mentor engineers.

As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, partner with high-impact public sector customers by developing full-stack applications and providing technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle.