Software Architect

Summary

Join Agile Six as a Software Architect to contribute to the Unified Appointment Experience (UAE) project with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). You will lead the architecture evolution and maintenance of VA Online Scheduling and Check-In systems, utilizing technologies like Ruby on Rails, React, and others. This role demands balancing modern architecture with legacy system integration, focusing on improving Veterans' digital healthcare experiences. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills are crucial for collaboration within large agile teams. You will also leverage AI-powered coding tools and emerging technologies to enhance efficiency and quality. The position involves leading initiatives, mentoring teammates, and fostering a collaborative environment. Responsibilities will evolve based on your strengths and team needs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer
• 5+ years as a software architect, tech lead, or other senior engineering leader
• Demonstrated experience leading the maintenance and enhancement of complex web and mobile applications across the enture technology stack, using modern languages and frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Git, Typescript, JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native), component-based design systems, REST and GraphQL APIs, and scalable architecture patterns
• Demonstrated experience leveraging and supporting the adoption of AI tools and services such as Cursor, Devin, and similar, to improve code quality, accelerate development, and enhance team practices, with a strong willingness to integrate AI thoughtfully to improve outcomes
• Experience with DevOps processes and tools
• Demonstrated experience with Agile teams, fostering an Agile mindset, facilitating collaboration, and guiding teams in applying Agile principles to deliver value iteratively
• Experience fostering team practices that prioritize writing automated tests to validate software and build behavior using testing frameworks such as React Testing Library and RSpec
• Expert understanding of architectural patterns, software development principles, and system design, with the ability to apply and guide their use across front-end and back-end systems
• Experience working in many different areas of the software stack and solving a variety of engineering problems
• Ability to work independently on high complexity tasks, and to collaborate as it makes sense for the problem and the work
• Experience in an open-source, collaborative development environment
• Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 out of the last 5 years

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute as part of a cross-functional Agile team to design, develop, and maintain web and mobile applications using React, React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js , Ruby on Rails, Git, and related technologies, applying modern software architecture principles and best practices
• Lead software architecture and design to support UAE project needs, leveraging best practices including modularity, scalability, accessibility, and seamless EHR integration
• Align engineering best practices across multiple delivery teams (which may include establishing an Engineering Community of Practice within the contract, and/or ensuring consistent engineering standards are met across the portfolio)
• Establish strong relationship with your VA counterparts
• Leverage, evangelize, and support the adoption of AI-powered coding tools such as Cursor, Devin, Claude Code, and/or GitHub Copilot, as well as other enabling technologies such as MCP servers and edge computing to rapidly implement features, identify and fix bugs, validate ideas, and enhance team practices
• Leverage emerging technologies and practices around DevOps, cloud services, automation tools, etc. where appropriate in the course of daily work to improve efficiency and/or quality
• Lead by taking initiative on challenging tasks, supporting and mentoring teammates, and fostering a collaborative, positive environment that enables successful delivery
• Collaborate with other teammates through code reviews, pair coding, mentorship, training, knowledge sharing, etc
• Write automated unit tests and integration tests, and assist in manual testing as needed
• As an agile team member, support the team and Product Owner to ensure that work is accurately described and appropriately prioritized, including providing input into user story acceptance criteria and sizing
• Support the practice of engineering within the larger company as needed through activities such as: Assisting in outreach, recruitment, and hiring efforts
• Occasionally participating in or otherwise supporting business development efforts, including code or design challenges, writing or reviewing proposal responses, etc
• Participating in communities of practice

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the vets-gov and vets-api codebases, and with the US Web Design System
• Experience building and/or training AI services, such as preparing data for utilization in AI services, creating vector databases, building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, or training models
• Experience working in or with government agencies, especially the VA
• 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