Software Engineer (Backend- Python)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Not Specified
• Job Type: Full-time (Contingent, pending contract award)
• Salary: $10,700 - $120,600 a year

Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation dedicated to making government services simple and effective. Since 2013, Nava has partnered with federal, state, and local agencies to tackle complex technology modernization challenges. As a client services company, Nava guides agencies with legacy systems toward modern, secure, reliable, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure, focusing on sharp user experiences. Nava bills for its time, offering expertise and problem-solving to enhance government digital products and services. The company prioritizes people, from the public relying on benefit programs to government agency staff, using human-centered design and modern engineering to better understand user needs and effectively deliver on missions. This approach allows everyone at Nava to do meaningful, impactful work connected to the public good.

This role involves working on cross-functional teams to build scalable systems for the government, including designing, implementing, and delivering services used by millions of Americans. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology that improves lives but understands that technology isn't always the solution. They are committed to building inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure large-scale systems and will help establish high standards for simplicity, empathy, and accessibility within Nava's teams.

The Software Engineer will be responsible for developing end-to-end systems for a major government partner, modernizing a legacy enterprise platform to improve public-facing processes and experiences. The goal is to enable users to access programs and services in real-time, in a more user-friendly and uncomplicated manner. This role encompasses all stages from strategy and planning to post-production testing and support.

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 systems on Cloud platforms.
• Experience developing applications with Python, Fargate, Lambda, OpenAPI.
• Experience working with AWS Step Functions.
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud-native services and big data technologies such as Apache Spark and Parquet.
• 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.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Must meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired.
• Work authorization that doesn’t require visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Working with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software.
• Collaborating 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 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.

Company Information

Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation working to make government services simple and effective. Since 2013, federal, state, and local agencies have trusted Nava to help solve highly scrutinized technology modernization challenges. As a client services company, Nava guides agencies constrained by legacy systems to a future with sharp user experiences built on secure, reliable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure. Nava bills for its time, offering its expertise and problem-solving approach to help its government partners enhance their digital products and services. People are at the heart of Nava's work, from members of the public who rely on benefit programs to government agency staff. Through human-centered design and modern engineering best practices, Nava helps its government partners better understand user needs and deliver on their missions more effectively. This focus gives everyone at Nava the opportunity to do work that is meaningful, impactful, and deeply connected to public good.