Full Stack Software Developer Team Lead

About

The Homeland Sector within Leidos is seeking a Full Stack Software Developer Team Lead, with strong systems, software, cloud, and Agile experience to support a complex program to provide Agile development. In this role the candidate will support the Passenger Systems Program Directorate (PSPD) within Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This hands‑on position involves collaboratively architecting, designing, building, delivering, and enhancing highly available, scalable, real‑time systems. The team lead will direct an Agile development team to support all design, creation, maintenance, and testing of Java full‑stack applications.

Location: Ashburn, VA (required on‑site twice a week)

Primary Responsibilities

• Guide team development efforts toward successful project delivery.
• Directly mentor and coach a team of three senior developers.
• Monitor team performance; resolve impediments; develop and implement improvement solutions.
• Coordinate schedule execution and plan program‑wide software/architecture releases.
• Lead Program Increment (PI) Planning from a technical aspect, grooming objectives and providing technical details, work on architecture.
• Lead cross‑team collaboration in support of development, testing, and deployment efforts.
• Brief customers on development progress throughout the PI cycle, including testing, deployment, and release readiness status.
• Maintain application posture for code coverage and ensure the configuration management (CM) process is effective for the team.
• Build the front‑end of applications through appealing visual design and define needs for build APIs.
• Maintain high standards of software quality using best practices and automated testing.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Collaborate with government customers on requirements development.
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS and 12+ years of relevant experience or Masters with 10+ years of relevant experience or 4 years of directly related experience in lieu of degree.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a CBP Background Investigation prior to start.
• 8 years of hands‑on experience using at least six of the following (not limited to):
  • Angular, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Spring Boot, Material UI, Java.
  • AWS Cloud, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Ansible, Git, Rafay.
  • RESTful Web Services, Hibernate.
  • Oracle/MySQL/Postgres, microservices, Spring Boot, Java.
  • CI/CD, Agile development, UX/UI.
• Experience with wireframe software to create effective mockups.
• Self‑starter, strong leader, able to work independently with little supervision.
• Knowledge of software design patterns.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint).
• Proficiency with common Agile practices, service‑oriented environments, and best development practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with DevOps frameworks.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active DoD Top Secret or DHS CBP BI clearance.
• Solid experience as a full‑stack Java developer.
• Experience with AWS, microservices, user experience, containerization, CI/CD.
• Experience in AWS app development.