Senior Software Engineer at Visionist, Inc.
Columbia, MD
$170,000–$240,000from the description
Jul 7, 2026
Columbia, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level software engineering role supporting a large intelligence community prime contract, focused on building and maintaining mission-critical applications in Python and Java (Spring Boot), automating infrastructure provisioning, and driving system performance improvements. The work involves identifying capability gaps and delivering solutions with significant autonomy, using AI-assisted development tools as part of daily workflows. Suited to an experienced engineer comfortable operating in a classified environment with a mixed-technology stack.
Senior level · 12+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
“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
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $141,954 (middle half $107,994–$205,328). 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)
Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is a hard gate — explicitly stated as required in the opening line.
U.S. citizenship is also a hard gate; green card holders and permanent residents are explicitly excluded.
The degree requirement is effectively None: the JD accepts '4 additional years of experience' as a substitute for the Bachelor's degree.
Python and Java (Spring Boot) are listed as an 'and/or' pair in the requirements section — either language satisfies the gate; they are captured as mutual alternatives. Spring Boot is called out specifically enough to warrant its own entry as a required framework.
'AI-assisted development tools' is a named category of tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) rather than a specific product; it is listed under Requirements with firm language and is retained as a required skill.
'Infrastructure automation' appears in the requirements section as a focus area ('infrastructure automation and process optimization') rather than a named tool — retained as a required skill given the explicit gate language and the contributions section calling out provisioning/automation work.
Work location is Columbia, MD (HQ explicitly mentioned); the posting does not offer remote work.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AI-assisted development tools, infrastructure automation.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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