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Software Engineer II

Leidos

Reston, Virginiafull-timePosted 5 days ago

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Description Leidos is seeking a Software Engineer II to support the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) in improving, maintaining, testing, and supporting secure, reliable, accessible, and user-centered digital products and services. The Software Engineer II will provide hands-on software improvement across applications, application programming interfaces (APIs), integrations, automated testing, automation, and Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) capabilities supporting OJP product teams. Under the guidance of senior engineers and technical leads, the successful candidate will enhance existing software, correct defects, reduce technical debt, strengthen automated testing, and contribute to secure and maintainable solutions using modern Agile and DevSecOps practices. Primary Responsibilities • Develop, modify, test, debug, and maintain software components that support OJP digital products, integrations, APIs, automation, and internal platforms under established engineering guidance. • Provide software improvements to existing applications and services by implementing approved enhancements, defect corrections, refactoring, and technical-debt reduction activities. • Translate assigned user stories, acceptance criteria, customer needs, and technical requirements into working software using Agile product-team practices. • Create and maintain automated unit, integration, regression, API, and data tests to improve release quality and reduce recurring defects. • Participate in Git-based source-control workflows, code reviews, pull requests, branching, merging, and configuration-management practices. • Support continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, build automation, security scanning, artifact or container workflows, and repeatable deployment processes using OJP-approved tools. • Develop, consume, test, and maintain APIs and web services through OJP's data-

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