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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:** 2026-10-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/the-swift-group/am9icG9zdDoIb6aEYAsi25b-EReQLrB9

## 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 are looking for a Software Engineer to join a highly motivated team in Herndon, VA. Supporting the development, enhancement, integration, testing, and deployment of software applications to meet operational requirements, including applications running in cloud environments

Responsibilities:

- Provide bug fixes, enhancements, and graphical user interface (GUI) improvements to applications to meet operational requirements
- Develop and modify application source code in response to new requirements and change requests
- Develop and deploy software, including in cloud environments
- Integrate externally developed code into core libraries
- Install and configure application software
- Evaluate third-party vendors and software partners
- Design and develop Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs)
- Maintain software library designs, including module APIs, code organization, and coding-standard compliance, emphasizing modularity, reuse, clean subsystem interfaces, and design integrity
- Coordinate with the configuration manager to integrate externally developed software into core software libraries
- Develop software for Sponsor networks, including, as assigned, libraries for audio/video, image processing algorithms, operating systems and file systems, and device drivers
- Assist the Sponsor in developing standards, methods, and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness
- Conduct testing at all levels of the software development lifecycle, including regression testing, while following strict testing procedures
- Provide software availability and reliability metrics during monthly status reviews.

Requirements:

- Minimum of 2 years of software engineering experience within the last 5 years
- Demonstrated experience in at least 3 of the following: .NET, Visual Basic, Java, JavaScript, Tomcat, SQL, XML, Python, HTML, LDAP certificates, Apache, and Ruby
- Collectively, the team must demonstrate experience across all of the technologies listed above
- Demonstrated experience with full-lifecycle Agile software development projects
- Demonstrated experience with software issue-tracking tools such as JIRA
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or another related scientific or technical discipline
- US citizenship with an active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance

Desired Experience:

- Developing Android applications
- Designing, developing, and maintaining applications within AWS/Sponsor cloud computing services
- Working knowledge of GIS software, including Google Maps and Google Earth
- Continuous software development and software integration best practices
- Working with INFOSEC and Information Assurance (IA) policies such as ICD 503 to ensure system security and data integrity
- Deploying the complete DevOps lifecycle, including build-pipeline integration, automated deployments, and compliance scanning using test-driven development

## 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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