Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Agile Six, a remote-first company, as a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to a team enhancing digital tools for veterans. You will work on improving the VA.gov website and mobile app, focusing on clarity, accessibility, and usability. This hands-on coding role involves crafting APIs, troubleshooting issues, and applying design patterns. You will collaborate with others, leverage AI tools, and mentor colleagues. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience, expertise in multiple languages, and a passion for making a difference. This is a key personnel role subject to government review.

Requirements

• With 7+ years as a Software Engineer, you’ve worked with complex architectures across multiple products and business domains, while also building strong expertise in specific areas
• You have deep experience with multiple languages and automated testing tools for them
• You have solid experience maintaining and refining design and implementation choices over time
• You have 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
• You thrive in Agile environments, focusing on team success and embodying an Agile mindset throughout your work
• Experience self-organizing: taking ownership of assigning and managing your own work
• Bias to action; you’ve proactively tried new things of your own volition
• Pragmatic decision-making skills and the ability to weigh and navigate tradeoffs
• A strong sense of experimentation, eager to innovate, using hypothesis-driven development
• You have lived and worked in the United States for 3 out of the last 5 years

Responsibilities

• Craft components and service APIs, using various frameworks and architectures to thoughtfully integrate advanced features
• Work with others to solve technical challenges, design effective solutions, troubleshoot production issues, and improve system performance
• Apply design patterns to support quality decisions and contribute to maintaining standards through code reviews, tools, testing strategies, and metrics
• Apply your experience to make informed architectural decisions, using design patterns and best practices to maintain quality through code reviews and metrics
• Make effective choices for architecture and scalability, supporting smoother workflows and enhancing the development process
• Identify and integrate AI-powered tools and services into the software development lifecycle to improve the efficiency and/or quality of delivery
• Proactively identify, promote, and support opportunities for the team to leverage AI to improve the efficiency and/or quality of delivery, as well as provide coaching and facilitate other forms of support for team members to learn how to use AI Services as needed
• Support colleagues through code reviews and pair programming, helping to strengthen their skills and improve code quality
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams to foster a collaborative environment
• Champion innovative ideas and support others in engaging with new approaches
• Help address challenges holistically and contribute to meaningful, systemic improvements and make informed trade offs
• Support the practice of engineering within the organization as needed, through activities such as help with recruitment and hiring, code challenges, and participating in our community of practice

Preferred Qualifications

• Development experience in cloud environments like AWS or Azure
• Experience with polyglot programming, using multiple languages, leveraging strengths of each language
• Expertise in continuous integration and deployment systems such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
• Experience leveraging AI tools and services to create and deliver software to production in a professional capacity
• Familiarity with the U.S. Web Design System
• Experience working with government agencies
• 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