Washington, DC

Salary
Posted
Jul 14, 2026
Location
Washington, DC
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A full-stack developer role supporting the Congressional Budget Office's internal web applications, building and maintaining features across a Python/FastAPI backend, ReactJS frontend, and PostgreSQL databases, with containerized deployments to AWS. The work spans API development, database management, automated testing, and accessibility compliance, within an agile, trunk-based development workflow. Suited to engineers with at least five years of hands-on experience across this specific technology stack.

Mid level · 5+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Full-time

Must have (10)
PythonFastAPIReactPostgreSQLDockerRESTAWSCI/CDpytest, Jest or React Testing LibraryOpenAPI or Swagger
Nice to have (1)
AWS Certified Developer – Associate

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 1,300 people in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 990–2,050

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What won't set you apart
Docker53%Python51%CI/CD45%React40%

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).

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 (7)

The job description contains boilerplate 'Supervisory Responsibility', 'Work Environment', and 'Physical Demands' sections that describe an unrelated executive/Navy leadership role — these appear to be copy-paste errors and are inconsistent with the actual Full Stack Developer duties described throughout the rest of the posting. They have been disregarded in the extraction.

The clearance requirement is a Public Trust Tier 2 (background check / FBI fingerprint check), not a formal US security clearance (Confidential/Secret/TS), so the clearance requirement is set to None.

The degree requirement accepts 'equivalent professional experience' as a substitute for a Bachelor's degree, so no minimum degree is hard-gated.

The role is hybrid (on-site at CBO in Washington, DC with occasional visits to Ashburn, VA and Manassas, VA data centers); it is not fully remote.

AWS ECS/EKS are mentioned as deployment targets in the job duties narrative rather than in a formal requirements section; AWS experience is explicitly required under the Experience section and is marked accordingly.

Section 508 accessibility is listed as a competency/requirement but names no specific tool — omitted from skills per extraction rules.

Trunk-based development is a workflow methodology, not a named tool — omitted from skills per extraction rules.

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