The Software Engineer will develop scalable backend systems for government clients, modernizing legacy platforms and improving user experiences. Responsibilities include software design, development, collaboration, and process automation.
You will work on cross-functional teams to build scalable systems for our government -- designing, implementing, and delivering services that millions of Americans depend on. You care deeply about working on technology that improves people’s lives, but don’t think technology is always the answer. You are passionate about building large-scale systems that are inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure, and you'll help set high standards for our teams in terms of simplicity, empathy, and accessibility.The Software Engineer role will be responsible for developing end to end systems for one of Nava's major government partners. The objective is to modernize an existing legacy enterprise platform to improve its public facing processes, and experiences which will enable users to have more access to the programs and services that they need, in real-time, in a more user friendly and uncomplicated way. This individual will be involved in everything, from strategy, and planning through to post production testing, and support.
What you'll do
- 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
Required skills
- 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
Desired skills
- Experience using Apache Spark and Parquet for data engineering
- Experience with Node.js and Next.js (Javascript)
Top Skills
Spark
AWS
Fargate
Go
Java
Lambda
Next.Js
Node.js
Openapi
Parquet
Spring Boot
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