Full Stack Developer at B&A
Ashburn, VA
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Jul 20, 2026
Ashburn, VA
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full stack developer role supporting modernization and maintenance work for a Department of Homeland Security / Customs and Border Protection program in Ashburn, Virginia. Day-to-day work involves building cloud-based applications with Angular 14 and Spring Boot microservices, maintaining legacy Java EE systems on WebSphere, and collaborating with users in an Agile environment. An active Top Secret clearance or CBP Background Investigation is required.
Mid level · 3+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Top Secret clearance · Contract
“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 $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 (9)
The role is explicitly described as a contract position supporting a federal government client (DHS/CBP).
The JD states 'Active TS or CBP BI' as the security clearance requirement — this is treated as a hard gate on a Top Secret clearance (or CBP Background Investigation equivalent); TopSecret is the closest standard classification.
A Bachelor's degree is listed as required but the JD immediately qualifies it with 'Applicable work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
The 3-year minimum experience requirement is stated specifically for Java, Spring Boot Microservices, JPA, and Angular 14 together; the years demanded is applied to each of those skills accordingly.
Eclipse, Spring Tool Suite, Visual Studio Code, Jira, and Confluence all appear under the 'Required Skills' heading and are treated as hard gates despite being tooling/IDE choices.
WebSphere is called out in the Responsibilities section for legacy support; WebLogic is listed as an alternative JEE server in the Required Skills section — both are captured under one skill entry with WebLogic as an alternative.
The posting specifies Angular 14 specifically; captured as 'Angular' per canonical naming conventions.
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.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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