Junior Software Engineer (.NET​/Angular

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Full Time Arlington, VA, US

17 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $96,000.00 To $ Annually

About Pioneering Evolution:
The Navy moves billions of dollars a year through budgeting, tasking, and execution processes. A surprising amount of that still happens in spreadsheets emailed between people who deserve better tools.

We build the better tools.

Pioneering Evolution has spent over 15 years automating acquisition and finance for federal programs. Our award-winning applications earned their reviews the hard way, through an obsessive emphasis on human-centered design and what our customers describe as meticulous attention to detail. We call our people Pioneers, and we mean it: we are willing to challenge the status quo, embrace unconventional approaches, and blaze a trail for others to follow.

Right now we are building SyncPoint™ and Sync Core™, and we need engineers at the start of their careers to help us do it.

What you would actually be working on:

At Pioneering Evolution, we are building Sync Core — Mission Operating System (Mission OS), designed to connect data, systems, workflows, and decisions across complex mission environments. Sync Core provides the secure, event-driven digital backbone for identity, integration, canonical data, governance, auditability, and interoperability—creating a trusted foundation on which mission capabilities can rapidly evolve. It is the foundation everything else stands on.

Built on Sync Core, SyncPointis a modular application ecosystem composed of independently deployable modules that address specific operational needs, such as requirements management, budgeting, task planning, resource allocation, execution, and decision support. Real programs, real money, real decisions.

You would join either the platform team or one of the module teams. Both are great places to learn, and we will talk with you about which fits best. You won’t spend your first year watching from the sidelines. You’ll write production code, participate in design discussions, review code with experienced engineers, and gradually take ownership of features as your skills grow.

The stack: C#, .NET 8+, ASP.NET Core on the back end. Angular and Type Script on the front. PostgreSQL with Entity Framework Core underneath. RabbitMQ for event-driven messaging. Docker, Git, CI/CD, and Azure Government around all of it.

What we actually require:

Here is the honest version, because vague postings waste everyone’s afternoon.

You need

• Software development fundamentals and a working grasp of object-oriented programming.
• Experience with C# or any other statically typed language. Java, Kotlin, C++, Go, Type Script, Swift - all fine. We are hiring for how you think, not which compiler you have used.
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL.
• Some understanding of web applications, HTTP, and APIs.
• Familiarity with Git.
• The ability to work a problem systematically when it does not make sense yet, and to say so out loud when it does not.
• Professional experience. Internship, co‑op, academic, military, open‑source, or serious personal‑project work can absolutely demonstrate what we are looking for.
• Prior .NET, Angular, PostgreSQL, Entity Framework, RabbitMQ, or Azure experience. These are on our stack, not on your entry exam. We will teach them.
• Every buzzword in this posting. Nobody has all of them. We would rather hire someone with solid fundamentals and real curiosity than someone who has skimmed all of it and internalized none of it.

Typically 0-3 years of professional experience. If you are further along and this still…