Junior Software Developer

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Junior Software Developer to join our innovative team in Montgomery, AL.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Perform software engineering tasks, including requirements analysis, design, building, and unit testing of Change Requests (CRs) and Deficiency Reports (DRs) for the CPM FoS.

Exercise industry-standard Agile software practices, participating in release planning, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinements, and retrospectives.

Work directly with Requirements Managers and Business Analysts to refine technical solutions, translate user stories into software design, and ensure developed applications deliver at least 85–90% of agreed-upon sprint functionality without priority defects.

Read and interpret complex legacy codebase architectures, debug system interfaces, and build stable API integrations to pass data smoothly between CMOS, OLVIMS, and MARKS.

Provide software engineering services across development, test, and production environments hosted within Cloud One (AWS GovCloud, Azure) and DISA infrastructures.

Create, modify, and optimize database solutions for application CRs and sustainment activities using Oracle (SQL, PL/T SQL, SQL Developer) and MS SQL Server software.

Utilize modern version control (Git) and automated CI/CD tools to deliver quality source code to government repositories.

Integrate various static code analysis toolsets (e.g., SonarQube, Checkmarx) to audit code modularity and security. Resolve high/medium vulnerability findings prior to final delivery of software releases.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical equivalent.

2+ years of software development experience working across a mixed ecosystem of legacy enterprise applications and modernized cloud-hosted networks.

Strong proficiency in backend programming languages (such as Java, C++, or C#) and web technologies (Oracle ADF, JavaScript, ASP.NET, or XML).

Competency writing database procedures, queries, triggers, and views within relational management structures (Oracle, SQL Server).

Active DoD 8577 / 8140 Compliance (IASAE Level I or IAT Level II, such as CompTIA Security+ CE) prior to onboarding.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience modernization effort translating legacy features into cloud-native features.

Familiarity with containerized deployments or working within secure government DevSecOps structures.

Experience working across a large team to drive a security agenda and working with complex, intertwined systems and data flows.

Clearance Requirements:

An active Secret security clearance is required.

Physical Requirements:

Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.

Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

Frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.