Software Engineer

Phoenix, AZ Until 8/23/2026 2+ years exp First posted May 24, 2025 Last posted May 24, 2025
Job description

Connexta, a subsidiary of Octo Consulting Group (Octo) is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of digital services for the federal government. Octo specializes in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government’s most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.

Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you'll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you'll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region’s best places to work multiple times, Octo is an employer of choice!

Job Description

We are looking for a full stack software developer to create and contribute amazing software at our Phoenix, AZ office location. As a member of the Octo team, you will contribute to open source projects and be apart of the open source community.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

  • Write well designed, testable efficient code in modern Object Oriented software language
  • Communicate progress and identify blocking issues
  • Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software

    Minimum Qualifications

    • B.S. Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
    • 2-7 years of experience
    • Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages with experience working in Mac, Windows, and/or Linux environments
    • U.S. Citizenship (Connexta has some contracts that make this a requirement)

    Desired Skills and Experience

    (Either have experience with or are ready to learn)

    • Java
    • OSGi
    • Karaf/ServiceMix
    • Camel
    • ActiveMQ
    • Cassandra
    • Lucene/Solr
    • SoapUI
    • Enterprise Integration standards (WS-*)
    • GeoTools
    • JavaScript
    • React.js
    • HTML5, CSS3
    • less
    • Backbone, Marionette, React, Redux
    • Bootstrap, Handlebars
    • Cesium
    • Grunt, Bower, NPM, WebPack
    • XML, XSD, XSLT, XPath, XQuery
    • Geospatial (OGC)
    • WebSockets
    • Agile, Scrum processes or tools
    • Eclipse/IntelliJ
    • Maven
    • JUnit
    • CXF SOAP and REST web services
    • Git/Stash
    • JIRA, Confluence
    • Crucible
    • Jenkins
    • SonarQube

    Octo Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information. Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation.

    About this role

    Summary

    Develop and contribute to high-quality software in an agile environment using modern languages and tools.

    Job title

    Software Engineer

    Experience level

    2-7 years

    Minimum experience

    2+ years exp

    Industry

    software

    Location requirements

    Phoenix, AZ; remote not specified

    Salary

    Not specified

    Management role

    No

    Skills & keywords

    Required skills

    programming languagesagilegitJIRAJenkins

    Preferred skills

    JavaReact.jsHTML5CSS3WebSocketsSonarQube

    Specializations

    full stackagileobject orientedopen source
    Locations

    Structured locations inferred from the posting.

    Phoenix, AZ, USA

    On-site City