Senior Software Developer - Forward Deployed Model

Title: Senior Software Developer

Department: Software Development

Location: Herndon, VA (Hybrid)

Compensation: $110,000–$170,000 annually

At Idea Entity, we transform customer pain points into insightful, scalable, agent-powered workflows built with empathy, clarity, and speed. Our work bridges strategy and execution, helping organizations simplify complex processes and make smarter, faster decisions. We take pride in being a partner our clients can trust, delivering meaningful outcomes through innovation, collaboration, and accountability. Every project we take on is driven by the shared goal of creating lasting impact for our customers and their businesses.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer to design, build, test, deploy, and support scalable software solutions that solve complex customer problems.

This role follows a forward-deployed engineering model and goes beyond traditional software development. The Software Developer will work directly with customers to understand operational challenges, rapidly translate those needs into technical solutions, and remain engaged through implementation, deployment, adoption, and iteration.

We are looking for a strong, versatile engineer who can take broad ownership, work independently, collaborate effectively with project and customer teams, and use AI to increase development speed and quality.

The position is based in Herndon, Virginia, operates on a hybrid schedule. Due to the nature of this role, US Citizenship is required and is not eligible for sponsorship.

• Architect, design, develop, test, deploy, and support high-quality software solutions with appropriate availability, reliability, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Use AI-enabled development tools and techniques as an integral part of software design, coding, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and delivery.
• Work directly with customers and end users to discover operational challenges, clarify requirements, identify root problems, and translate those needs into practical technical solutions.
• Own technical solution delivery alongside the customer from discovery and prototyping through demonstrations, implementation, deployment, adoption, and iterative improvement.
• Rapidly prototype, develop, and iterate portals, dashboards, workflows, APIs, integrations, and other application capabilities based on real customer feedback and operational needs.
• Perform and lead code and design reviews, maintaining strong engineering practices, code integrity, security, and quality standards.
• Collaborate across the full software lifecycle, including requirements definition, architecture, development, automated testing, deployment, maintenance, and production support.
• Take end-to-end ownership of ambiguous technical and operational problems, independently driving them from investigation and solution design through implementation and resolution while communicating tradeoffs and recommendations clearly.
• Manage development priorities, deadlines, and deliverables across assigned projects while taking ownership for successful completion.
• Work alongside customers during implementation, deployment, adoption, and optimization, gathering feedback and rapidly adjusting the solution as operational needs evolve.
• Mentor and support other developers and contribute to consistent engineering standards, reusable development patterns, and improved team practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, AI capabilities, frameworks, and engineering approaches and apply them where they improve customer outcomes or delivery efficiency.
• Other tasks assigned based on business needs.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software…