Sr. Software Engineer (Eng Lead/Manager)

Position Overview

• Location Type: [Not Specified]
• Job Type: Full-time (Contingent, pending contract award)
• Salary: $135,900 - $153,000

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 constrained by legacy systems towards modern cloud infrastructure, focusing on user experience, security, reliability, and fault tolerance. Nava bills for its time, offering expertise and problem-solving to enhance government digital products and services. The company prioritizes people, understanding user needs through human-centered design and modern engineering practices to help government partners deliver on their missions effectively. This focus allows everyone at Nava to engage in meaningful, impactful work connected to the public good.

You will work on cross-functional teams to build scalable systems for the government, designing, implementing, and delivering services relied upon by millions of Americans. You are passionate about technology that improves lives but recognize that technology isn't always the sole solution. You are driven to build large-scale systems that are inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure, and you will champion high standards for simplicity, empathy, and accessibility within our teams.

Position Summary

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for developing end-to-end systems for one of Nava's major government partners. The primary objective is to modernize an existing legacy enterprise platform to enhance its public-facing processes and user experiences. This modernization aims to provide users with improved, real-time access to programs and services in a more user-friendly and uncomplicated manner. This role encompasses all phases of the project lifecycle, from strategy and planning through post-production testing and support.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6-8 engineers.
• Collaborate with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software.
• Partner with government clients and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems.
• Work in an agile manner 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, including submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and participating in interview debriefs, as needed.

Requirements

• Open to Fullstack engineers.
• Minimum 7 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale solutions on AWS.
• Minimum 3 years of experience managing and mentoring engineering teams.
• Minimum 3 years of experience working with AWS.
• Experience building large-scale data services with FHIR/HL7 in the healthcare sector.
• Experience with a broad range of technologies including:
  • Angular (Typescript)
  • Storybook
  • Apache server
  • Go
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Python
  • OpenAPI
  • Fargate
  • Lambda
  • Jenkins
  • Github Actions
• Experience with big data technologies such as Spark and Databricks.
• Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate with working code.
• Ability to be both a systems thinker and an advocate for users.
• Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented.
• Capacity to think strategically about trade-offs and short-term versus long-term benefits.
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, both technical and non-technical.

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.