Senior Software Engineer
NextGen Federal Systems · Dayton, OH
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Jul 13, 2026
Dayton, OH
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
These are multiple senior-level software engineering roles supporting Department of Defense and Intelligence Community programs, requiring an active TS/SCI clearance. Engineers will work across the full development lifecycle — design, development, deployment, and implementation — using a broad range of languages, cloud platforms, containerization tools, CI/CD pipelines, and data architectures in an Agile team environment.
Senior level · National · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance
“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 $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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 (5)
No work location is specified in the posting. Given the DoW/IC focus and TS/SCI requirement, this is almost certainly an on-site or hybrid role at a cleared facility, but no city or state is mentioned.
The qualifications section is written as a single block labeled 'highly desired' after the hard gates (degree and clearance). This creates ambiguity: the technologies listed (languages, frameworks, CI/CD tools, etc.) are framed as 'highly desired' rather than strictly required. However, the block also uses firm language ('strong software engineering backgrounds with the following skills and expertise') and the entire list sits under the primary Qualifications heading — the named tools have been marked required accordingly, with the exception of MATLAB, IDL, and QT, which appear more as niche/optional stack items and are marked preferred.
The posting lists multiple frameworks (Angular, Spring Boot, Vue, React, QT) and languages (Python, MATLAB, IDL, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, NodeJS, C++) as a broad desired stack rather than gating on each individually — candidates are unlikely to be rejected for lacking any single one, but the overall breadth of the list is presented as the target skill profile.
No compensation range is provided.
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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