Software Engineer

Summary

Join Nava as a Software Engineer and contribute to the development of scalable systems for government partners. You will work on cross-functional teams, designing, implementing, and delivering services used by millions. The role involves modernizing legacy platforms to improve public-facing processes and user experiences, enabling real-time access to programs and services. Responsibilities range from strategy and planning to post-production testing and support. You will collaborate with government partners and other contractors, working in an agile environment to deliver features that meet user needs. The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in backend engineering, cloud platforms, and API development.

Requirements

• Open to Backend engineers
• At least 5 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale on Cloud platforms
• Experience developing applications and APIs Java, Spring Boot, Go, OpenAPI,‬ Fargate, Lambda
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud native services and data engineering
• Current and/or prior experience developing API endpoints with Java or Go
• Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate in working code
• Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented.Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short term vs. long term benefits
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise

Responsibilities

• Working with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software
• Collaborate with government partners and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems
• Working in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs
• Creating tools and processes to automate our development, testing, and production workflows
• Writing and reviewing technical documentation, performing code reviews
• Participating in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur
• Taking part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Apache Spark and Parquet for data engineering
• Experience with Node.js and Next.js (Javascript)