Junior Software Engineer

Verisign
Reston,Virginia,United States$90k – $122kPosted 9 March 2026

Job Description

Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. We are a trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world and deliver unmatched performance in domain name system (DNS) services. We are a mission focused, values driven company where each individual can contribute to building a stronger, more secure internet. We offer a dynamic and flexible work environment with competitive benefits and the ability to grow your career. Verisign is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Verisign Web Portals Development team. The ideal candidate should have experience in Java and web development. Exposure to additional languages and technologies (Bash, Python, Docker, Git, Jenkins, AWS/Cloud) is advantageous. We seek a candidate with strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including core Computer Science concepts, as well as hands-on problem-solving experience building software systems. Obtaining required competencies often implies the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of hands-on software development work experience OR master's degree work experience. We remain open to other career paths. The candidate will be involved in all aspects of product development including ideation, design, implementation, deployment, and issue resolution. This may sometimes imply cross-team collaboration with Product, Marketing, Engineering, Security and Operations teams. The candidate is expected to provide technical contributions and work collaboratively with other team members. Skills Required: 2+ years software development experience Excellent skills in Java Full-stack development experience: backend (Web, REST), frontend (HTML, CSS, JS, ReactJS) Frameworks: Spring and Spring Boot, Hibernate, ReactJS Test Automation: Unit/Integration/UI testing (preferably Selenium, Cucumber) Data Layer: SQL, Relational Databases(preferably PostgreSQL) OS: Familiarity with UNIX-like operating systems Conceptual understanding of server architecture and ability to update architectural documents/diagrams in collaboration with Architecture Team Demonstration of understanding of Secure Coding standards Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), eager to learn new technologies Bachelors' degree or equivalent work experience Preferred: Methodology: Scrum Scripting: Bash, Groovy, Python Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes CI/CD/CM: Git, Jenkins, Gradle, Yarn Deployment Automation: Ansible, Terraform AWS/Cloud hosting a plus Product Web Portals team operates a set of customer- and internal-facing web applications for our customers to manage their products and accounts with Verisign. All these applications are hosted on a shared environment in Openstack-based cloud infrastructure. All the applications use ReactJS for the user interface and Spring-Boot for the business logic layer. PostgreSQL is used for data persistence layer. This team also manages a collection of React components implementing a style-guide for internal and external Verisign websites and web applications. These shared components utilize Material-UI design principles and are used across all the web applications the team maintains. Team The team possesses extensive technical ownership over the product. The work style of the team is closer to an internal startup where all the team members are involved in the majority of product development phases and are flexible moving between focus areas. The team follows Agile Development methodology relying on daily Scrums with tickets prioritized in Jira. Our code is located on internal GitHub; we utilize pull request code reviews. For continuous delivery, we use Jenkins with pipelines and our product deployments are automated with Ansible and Terraform. The product can be rolled out from zero to the operating state in a single button click. We do builds for each codebase change as well as nightly builds. We have automated testing with substantial covera ... (truncated, view full listing at source)