Sr. Software Engineer (Backend-Manager)

Position Overview

• Location Type: [Not Specified]
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: $135,900 - $153,000 a year

Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation dedicated to simplifying and improving government services. 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 towards modern, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure, focusing on user experience. The company bills for its time, offering expertise to enhance digital products and services for government partners. Nava prioritizes people, using human-centered design and modern engineering practices to help agencies better understand user needs and achieve their missions, resulting in meaningful and impactful work connected to the public good.

Position Summary

You will be part of cross-functional teams building scalable systems for the government, focusing on designing, implementing, and delivering services used by millions of Americans. You are passionate about technology that improves lives but understand that technology isn't always the sole solution. You excel at building inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure large-scale systems, and you will help establish high standards for simplicity, empathy, and accessibility within our teams.

The Sr. Software Engineer role involves developing end-to-end systems for a major government partner. The primary objective is to modernize an existing legacy enterprise platform to enhance its public-facing processes and user experiences, enabling easier access to programs and services in real-time through a more user-friendly and uncomplicated interface. This role encompasses all phases, from strategy and planning to post-production testing and support.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 6-8 engineers.
• Collaborate with fellow Nava engineers on software design, review, and development.
• Work with government partners and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing ones.
• Employ agile methodologies to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs.
• Create tools and processes to automate development, testing, and production workflows.
• Write and review technical documentation and perform code reviews.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues.
• Contribute to hiring activities, such as submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending debriefs, as needed.

Requirements

• Open to Backend engineers.
• Minimum 7 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, ideally designing and building medium to large-scale systems on Cloud platforms.
• Minimum 3 years of experience managing and mentoring engineers.
• Proven experience developing applications and APIs using Java, Spring Boot, Go, OpenAPI, Fargate, and Lambda.
• Experience working with FHIR/HL7 standards.
• 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 with working code.
• Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented.
• Ability to think strategically about trade-offs and short-term vs. long-term benefits.
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, both technical and non-technical.

Other Requirements

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Must meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are being considered.