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title: 'Software Engineer at Swift'
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# Software Engineer at Swift

- **Company:** Swift
- **Location:** Herndon, VA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/the-swift-group/am9icG9zdDqCMFy27igGrnNzXbBYXd5p

## Job description

Swift is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe.

We're looking for a highly experienced Software Engineer to work on a dynamic enterprise program. This role is technical and ideal for someone who thrives in complex distributed environments, understands modern cloud native architectures, and brings strong engineering discipline to large-scale systems.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of hands-on experience building and operating full stack applications, backend services, APIs, and microservices in Linux-based environments. The engineer will design and optimize core platform components, improve system reliability and performance, and contribute to the evolution of a cloud-based, containerized ecosystem. They will collaborate with developers, data engineers, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient capabilities that enable data science, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. Experience modernizing legacy systems and supporting large-scale cloud migrations is a plus.

There are Software Engineer positions in McLean, VA, Herndon, VA, and Chantilly, VA.

Responsibilities:

- Platform & Service Development: Design, build, and maintain full stack and backend services, APIs, and microservices in a Java and Linux-based environment, including supporting applications built with JavaScript and Node.js.
- System Architecture & Scaling: Contribute to the architecture of large-scale, distributed systems with a focus on performance, reliability, and security, including modernization of legacy systems into cloud-native architectures.
- Cloud & Deployment: Develop and deploy services in cloud environments, leveraging AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, VPC, Auto Scaling, and CloudFormation.
- Database Engineering: Work with relational databases to support high-volume, data-driven applications.
- Containerization & Runtime: Build, optimize, and operate containerized services across the platform.
- CI/CD & DevOps: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) and apply DevOps best practices across the software development lifecycle.
- Monitoring & Optimization: Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, enhance system monitoring capabilities, and optimize system performance.

Requirements:

- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- 10+ years of experience building and operating software applications or platform-level systems
- Strong proficiency in Java, with working knowledge of JavaScript and/or Node.js
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and/or Bash
- Experience with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, or MariaDB)
- Proficiency in Linux environments (including Red Hat/CentOS)
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure management
- Experience with microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed system design
- Proficiency with Git-based repositories (GitLab, GitHub) and modern development workflows, including CI/CD pipelines
- Strong experience with containers and containerized deployments
- Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, testing, and secure coding practices
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required

Desired Experience:

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, or CloudFormation
- Familiarity with distributed data and streaming tools (Hadoop, Spark, Yarn, Hive, Trino)
- Experience with data access control models such as RBAC and ABAC
- Background supporting large-scale, multi-tenant platforms or high availability systems
- Experience hardening systems to meet high accreditation or security compliance levels
- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect)

Do you know anyone for this position, or other positions open at The Swift Group? We offer a $5,000 bonus for any referral candidate we hire, paid out at the new hire’s 90-day mark.

We are not working with outside staffing agencies to fill this position, and we will not be accepting unsolicited resumes. All inquiries must go through the recruiting team.

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## About Swift

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Swift Group provides national security technology and mission support by combining experienced field operatives with expert technologists.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed funding stage)
- **Headquarters**: Reston, VA, USA
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: National security, defense, intelligence, cybersecurity, high-performance computing, training and logistics.
- **Target customers**: U.S. Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community agencies (B2G).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “When national security leaders need something built quiet that hits loud, they turn to Swift.” — The company pairs field operators with technologists to solve complex national security challenges with speed, discretion, and precision.

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **HPC Research & Technical Advisement**: Specialized advisement for revolutionary high-performance computing systems supporting data-intensive missions.
- **Software Development & Data Solutions**: Rapid prototyping, agile development, and applied data science tailored to mission needs.
- **Cyber Enablement**: Network defense, offense, threat analysis, and resilience for enterprise and operational environments.
- **Operations**: Mission planning and execution support delivered shoulder-to-shoulder with client teams anywhere in the world.
- **Training & Mission Support**: Operator-led instruction and technical training across the full mission lifecycle.
- **Energetics**: Advanced research, advisory, and deployment of energetic materials to improve system performance and operational effect.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (privately held).
- **Key Metric**: Over **126 open positions** currently listed on the careers page, signaling rapid growth.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Growt Signals**: Founded in 2019, now has multiple offices (Reston, Annapolis Junction, Chantilly, McLean, etc.) and supports customers across the U.S. and globally. High volume of active job postings.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Operator-led approach**: Combines real-world field experience with cutting-edge engineering, reducing the gap between mission needs and technical solutions.
- **Integration**: Unified teams of operators, engineers, and analysts work together, avoiding siloed tools.
- **Discretion and trust**: Emphasizes low-profile, off-the-record work, earning deep trust from national security clients.
- **Acountability**: Company culture of owning outcomes, with a flat, agile structure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding capabilities in cyber, HPC, and data science while maintaining operator-driven agility. Continued support for sensitive, high-stakes missions across civilian, defense, and intelligence domains.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven, employee-focused, with a strong sense of purpose. Values include transparency, integrity, service, and innovation.
- **Work environment**: Low-profile, high-impact. Roles often require clearance and on-site presence at client locations (e.g., Chantilly, Annapolis Junction, Reston). Not fully remote; likely hybrid or on-site.
- **Bnefits**: Comprehensive healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, education, and time-off benefits.
- **Success stories**: Clear career progression from analyst to chief architect, with wide pay bands (e.g., $50k–$290k) indicating room for growth and specialization.

## Sources
1. [theswiftgroup.com/company](https://theswiftgroup.com/company/)
2. [theswiftgroup.com](https://theswiftgroup.com/)
3. [careers.theswiftgroup.com](https://careers.theswiftgroup.com/)
4. [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/the-swift-group)

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