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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:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/the-swift-group/am9icG9zdDo6bulPeKLy1MRss4WAaOEE

## 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.

Swift is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join a dynamic modernization program in Herndon, VA involving direct support to the mission.

Responsibilities:

- Provides engineering and programmatic support to projects and infrastructure support activities
- Designs and develops enterprise applications in a web environment
- Develops, creates, and modifies general computer applications software or specialized utility programs
- Analyzes user needs and develops software solutions
- Designs or customizes software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency
- Analyzes and designs databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team
- May manage websites including design, development, deployment, and maintenance activities as well as performance of testing and QA of websites and web applications
- Applies knowledge and provides guidance to all phases of the software development lifecycle
- Analyzes user/business needs and functionality to plan and design software systems to meet those needs
- Creates advanced models and diagrams that show programmers the software code needed for an application
- Provides analysis for reports on software project specifications, activities, or status

Requirements:

- Experience with Angular
- Experience with Java
- Willing to develop and implement solutions in a dispersed team environment
- Experience working on a SCRUM team supporting Lean Agile Framework
- Experience conducting routine QA activities such as peer reviews
- Experience with GIT and Jenkins
- Experience with webservice design and development
- Experience with continuous integration, test automation, and DevOps
- Familiar with Linux environments
- Experience translating system requirements from both formal and informal requirements into complex application interfaces
- Knowledge of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), or direct database interfaces
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required

Desired Experience:

- Experience implementing micro services (preferably micro frontend)
- Government customer architecture/engineering board experience
- Experience implementing AWS cloud solutions
- Experience with automated CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with distributed data architectures
- Experience discussing technical topics with non-technical people
- Puppet module development and Terraform development
- Hands-on experience with Web Services (REST and SOAP)

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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