# Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer Location: US Remote Ready to make a difference? ICF is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead the hands-on development and continued evolution of the Demand Response Optimization Program (DROP), a client-facing software product that helps utilities plan and evaluate programs designed to manage electricity demand. DROP brings together customer, program, device, and energy-usage data so utility teams can organize participants, plan operational activities, evaluate results, and improve future program performance. The successful candidate will combine deep software-engineering skills, product thinking, strong communication, and an AI-first mindset. They will translate analytical methods and client needs into secure, reliable, maintainable software while contributing engineering improvements across Sightline ADAPT. The Opportunity DROP has progressed from an analytical concept into a product with automated workflows supporting customer and device assignments, program operations, data preprocessing, telemetry processing, performance analysis, and reporting. The next phase requires disciplined software engineering focused on reliability, extensibility, repeatable

- **Id**: 3995125
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/icf-lead-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Reston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T00:58:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9752
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Flexible schedule, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Energy Efficiency, Digital Government, Management Consulting

## Company

- **Id**: 2632
- **Name**: ICF
- **Domain**: icf.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/icf>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 97
- **Open postings**: 18
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.222
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 108476
- **Max**: 184409
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 184409

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Fabric** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **Power BI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T00:58:39Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 58 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 58

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T02:04:39Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 184409
- **Is top pay**: no

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