Full Stack Developer at Bowhead
Dahlgren, VA
$95,000–$120,000
Jul 5, 2026
Dahlgren, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack development role supporting hardware and software lifecycle work at a government-adjacent site in Dahlgren, VA. Day-to-day work centers on building and maintaining web applications with data, analytics, and reporting features, writing automated tests, and managing deployments on cloud platforms. The role also involves diagnosing technical issues for internal and external stakeholders and working with CI/CD pipelines and containerized infrastructure.
Mid level · 3+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $95,000–$120,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The degree requirement is effectively None — the JD states 'High School Diploma required' as the hard gate and lists a Bachelor's only as preferred; equivalent experience is implicitly accepted.
Experience range is stated as 3–5 years; the overall years minimum is set to 3 (the lower bound).
GitLab and JavaScript appear in the main Qualifications/Requirements section with firm language and are treated as hard gates. GitLab also appears in the Preferred section, but its initial listing under required qualifications is authoritative.
Azure and AWS are named together as the cloud environment context ('Azure/AWS cloud environments'); Azure is listed as primary with AWS as an alternative since the role gates on cloud platform experience but either appears acceptable.
Vue.js, Python Flask, Java Spring, HTML, Kubernetes, Docker, TypeScript, and CI/CD all appear under the explicit 'Preferred' section and are treated accordingly.
The alternative occupation runner-up (15-1244) reflects the meaningful infrastructure/cloud operations and Kubernetes troubleshooting content, though the primary framing is software development (writing code, automated tests, web application).
Security clearance: the JD requires the ability to obtain/maintain a Top Secret clearance — not TS/SCI — so TopSecret is used rather than TopSecretSci.
US Citizenship is explicitly required for this contract.
Requires a Top Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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