SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Team Lead/Front End - 12+ yrs of Experience - TS/SCI w/Poly clearance is required - TB - 0608 at Halogen Engineering Group, Inc
Annapolis Junction, MD
$235,000–$242,000
Jul 19, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on technical lead role for a front-end-focused software engineer who will guide a team of UI developers while remaining active in day-to-day coding. Responsibilities include designing front-end architecture, translating design specifications into accessible interfaces, integrating with backend APIs, and overseeing the full software development lifecycle in an agile setting. Requires 12+ years of software engineering experience and an active TS/SCI with polygraph.
Senior level · 12+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $235,000–$242,000
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What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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The title carries no explicit seniority level word (e.g., 'Senior', 'Staff'), so the title states no level; however, the 12+ years requirement and team-lead scope firmly support a Senior classification.
The role is a genuine hybrid between a hands-on IC Software Developer (15-1252) and a people-manager (11-3021): the JD explicitly calls for leading/mentoring a team of UI developers, delegating work, and overseeing multiple teams, but also emphasizes remaining hands-on in development. Primary day-to-day work is assessed as software development, with 11-3021 as a meaningful runner-up.
A TS/SCI with polygraph is explicitly required as a hard gate for this position.
The degree requirement states a Bachelor's in CS or related field is required, but explicitly allows substitution with 4 additional years of SWE experience — treated as equivalent experience accepted, so the degree requirement is set to None.
CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GovCloud) appear in the Required Skills section but are qualified with 'is a plus', so they are marked as preferred.
Linux/Ubuntu environment experience also appears in the Required Skills section but is explicitly qualified as 'a plus', so it is marked as preferred.
The 'Desired Skills' section is a numbered list of task-level responsibilities rather than named technologies; no additional concrete tool names were extracted from it beyond what is already captured.
Seven (7) years of experience in Software Database and Repository Interface Development is listed as a qualification; this is a domain-level experience requirement rather than a named technology and is not emitted as a skill.
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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