Fullstack Engineer

Summary

Join Agile Six, a remote-first company, as a Fullstack Engineer to contribute to an integrated patient portal experience on VA.gov. You will build and maintain features using Ruby on Rails, React, and other technologies, ensuring accessibility, performance, and scalability. Responsibilities include developing user-facing features, writing automated tests, integrating with VA APIs, and supporting legacy system migration. The role requires strong full-stack development skills, experience with CI/CD, and familiarity with security best practices. This is a full-time position with a competitive salary and benefits package. Multiple openings are available, pending contract award. Agile Six values a culture of self-management and wholeness.

Requirements

• 5 + years of professional engineering experience, demonstrating in‑depth knowledge in at least one front end and one back end technology stack (e.g. Ruby and React)
• 3 + years of recent experience with React and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience experimenting with and/or utilizing AI tools and services to create and deliver software, and a strong willingness to leverage AI where appropriate to improve outcomes
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)
• Experience with measurement and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog) and a strong understanding of application observability
• Familiarity with secure development best practices and Zero Trust principles; ability to safeguard sensitive data while working in an open‑source environment

Responsibilities

• Build accessible, performant, and scalable frontend and backend features in an open-source ecosystem using Ruby on Rails and other industry-standard languages and frameworks
• Develop user-facing features with React ( TypeScript/JavaScript ), following USWDS design patterns and VA API/FHIR standards where applicable
• Write and maintain 100% automated test coverage (unit, integration, functional, load, and accessibility) for all delivered features
• Integrate with VA APIs and backend services to ensure accurate, secure data rendering and discoverability via the Lighthouse API Hub
• Support the migration and retirement of legacy systems, ensuring continuity of content and functionality
• Contribute to full-stack development across healthcare features (e.g., secure messaging, medical records, medications) with a focus on interoperability and user-centered design
• Monitor and triage application performance issues daily using tools like Datadog, and respond to incidents according to VA-defined severity levels
• Prevent and resolve silent failures through robust error handling, user notification mechanisms, and backend transaction validation
• Participate in pair programming, peer reviews, and blameless post-mortems, incorporating learnings and promoting engineering excellence
• Continuously integrate and deploy code using VA Platform tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and reusable infrastructure components across VA.gov and VA Mobile
• Uphold Zero Trust security principles and ensure sensitive data is never exposed in source code; deliver all non-sensitive code to open-source repositories
• Support the Engineering Community of Practice and broader Agile Six engineering culture through knowledge‑sharing, mentoring, and participation in internal initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Experience with React Native
• Experience leveraging AI tools and services to create and deliver software to production in a professional capacity
• Experience with health-related services and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards
• Professional experience delivering software for or within federal agencies, especially the VA
• Familiarity with the VA.gov Platform, VA Mobile Platform, and Lighthouse delivery infrastructure
• Prior contributions to open-source projects and/or publicly shared technical documentation
• You are a U.S. Veteran

Benefits

• Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
• Competitive and equitable salary (equal pay for equal work)
• Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
• 401K matching
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
• Employer paid life insurance
• Self-managed and generous paid time off
• Paid federal holidays and two floating holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Self-managed professional development spending
• Self-managed wellness days