Develop and test secure software for government clients using agile, TDD, pair programming, continuous delivery, and AI-augmented practices. Collaborate with client developers and military personnel, teach modern engineering methods, deliver user-focused functionality, support reliable software solutions, and facilitate informed technical decisions. The role requires full-stack development, API development, container technologies, Linux, DevSecOps practices, and an active TS/SCI clearance.
Your Dream. Our Team.About Rise8
About YouRise8 builds custom, secure software for government organizations, measuring success by impact: lives saved, time returned, and missions advanced.
We think big, start small, and scale fast with elite teams across product, design, and engineering to drive continuous delivery for critical missions.
We believe customer experience starts with employee experience, so we take care of our employees. Rise8 is where you’ll do the best work of your career—supported by a culture you won’t find anywhere else. We offer competitive pay and benefits, but what sets us apart is our commitment to autonomy, growth, and a culture rooted in kindness, candor, and continuous learning.
Certified as a Great Place to Work®, with 100% of employees saying they love working here, Rise8 is where bold ideas become real capabilities. Where mission meets meaning. And where fewer bad things happen because of bad software.
- You’re mission-driven and measure success by impact (lives saved, time returned, missions advanced), not activity.
- You think big, start small, and scale fast. You treat time as the biggest vulnerability and security as something that enables speed.
- You lead with kindness and candor: you give honest feedback, take it well, and raise the bar for everyone around you.
- You’re an owner. You thrive with autonomy, act decisively, and stay steady when things are uncertain.
- You're building with AI and see it as a force multiplier not a shortcut.
- Work with clients who may be new to modern software practices such as design thinking, AI-assisted and agentic engineering, continuous-release deployment, backlog management, or even interacting directly with the users they provide software to.
- Decompose business problems into clear, actionable instructions and specifications for agentic development.
- Be responsible for learning how your client likes to learn, how they like to receive feedback, and what ubiquitous language they use so you can speak in terms that resonate with them.
- Learn, teach, and refine your approach constantly to best collaborate towards a new way of thinking about engineering.
- On enablement engagements, pair with client developers, engineers, and military service members. Accelerate how they develop and deliver user stories that provide business value, technical feasibility, and user-driven functionality.
- Ensure that development is delivered week over week and continuously gauge feedback from real users in real time.
- Work with a balanced team in mind while building software that fits the user needs, business objectives, and stakeholder vision so the team can quickly make informed engineering decisions based on validated assumptions.
- Plan for and build delivery and user metrics into the software systems you create, so the team can measure real outcomes.
- Must have an active TS/SCI Security Clearance.
- 3-6 years of Software Development experience in a variety of programming languages.
- Strong communication skills and interest in a pair-programming environment.
- Experience leveraging AI in software development.
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and agile methodologies, including using AI tools to write and maintain tests.
- You have a strong understanding of algorithms, programming language theory, software architecture, networks, databases, and design patterns, and understand how to apply them.
- Experience with both frontend and backend.
- Experience using container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps tools and processes such as Git, Ansible, GitLabCI, SonarQube, Fortify, and ThreadFix.
- Demonstrated experience with API Development.
- You are comfortable running your software in Linux environments.
- You have strong facilitation skills.
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience developing cloud-native applications.
- Experience leading a product or development team.
- Experience building and deploying in a continuous delivery environment.
- Experience working directly with clients.
- Strong facilitation skills.
- Experience with DoD, especially at a DoD "Software Factory".
- Located within a commutable distance into either Colorado Springs, CO, Aurora, CO or El Segundo, CA and can be onsite on a hybrid capacity.
The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $119,853 - $149,817 regardless of final candidate location within the United States. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity.
Benefits- Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce
- Premium Insurance: We cover up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium on our base health plan, depending on pay band. We also cover 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.
- Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay.
- Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 11 Federal holidays, your birthday, jury duty, and bereavement.
- Education & Training: Accrued budget of up to $3,500 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials.
- Home Office and Merch: We offer $750 per year for home office technology and equipment as well as $100 per year for Rise8 merch from our Swag Store.
- Wellness Budget: To encourage and support a well-rounded healthy lifestyle, we cover 100% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year. Or Rise8 is part of the the Life Time Corporate Partner program. In lieu of your $500 annual wellness benefit, you can instead get a $75 monthly credit towards a Life Time membership ($900 annual benefit).
- Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro
All of Rise8’s work in this area is with Federal Government customers that require our employees involved with their projects be U.S. citizens. As such, this role requires U.S. citizenship. If hired, you would also be required to go through a background investigation.
Rise8 is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider you for this role regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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