> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Federal Forward Deployed Software Engineer (Active Secret Clearance Required) Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3e367567719a0ccf iboss posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in US · city not listed with no pay posted. Deploy and integrate the iboss platform in classified and unclassified federal environments. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [iboss](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/iboss) Posted Apr 9, 2026 by iboss · open on Jobvite as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted US · city not listed Full-time Deploy and integrate the iboss platform in classified and unclassified federal environments. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F3e367567719a0ccf&placement=top) - [View posting at iboss](https://jobs.jobvite.com/iboss/job/oEOXzfwI) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** professional software development with Java as the primary language - **0+ years** deployment and integration of software within U.S. federal government or Department of Defense environments Background - **Software engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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