Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Agile Six is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that builds human-centered digital services in the public interest. They are seeking a Software Engineer specializing in Fullstack and Developer Experience to design, implement, and operate production-grade APIs and services while collaborating across disciplines to solve technical challenges.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate production-grade APIs, services, and shared components, applying patterns that meet scalability, security, and performance needs
- Define and maintain data standards and API contracts used to exchange data across systems and with external partners
- Build and sustain developer tooling such as SDKs, CLIs, validators, generators, and test utilities that support adoption and long-term maintainability
- Implement workflow automation and CI/CD (for example, through GitHub Actions) to enforce engineering standards and reduce manual operational work
- Stand up and maintain cloud environments, infrastructure as code, and monitoring, where the role calls for it
- Build accessible, mobile-first, and multilingual interfaces, where the role calls for it
- Own clear, usable public documentation that drives adoption of open standards and tooling
- Collaborate across disciplines to solve technical challenges, troubleshoot production issues, and communicate design decisions and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strengthen engineering practices through mentorship, code reviews, and pairing
- Use AI tools responsibly to improve the quality and efficiency of your work, while reviewing everything they produce
Skills
- 4-7+ years of experience as a software engineer building and shipping production software end to end, with depth in specific areas. Required years of experience vary by position
- Strong experience with Python and/or TypeScript, and comfort learning new languages as the work requires
- Experience with SQL, including authoring raw queries independent of an ORM
- Experience with service-oriented or API-first architectures and integrating with the APIs of other teams
- Experience self-organizing: taking ownership of assigning and managing your own work
- Pragmatic decision making, a bias toward action, and a strong sense of experimentation and hypothesis-driven development
- A commitment to documentation and writing down institutional knowledge
- Comfort in Agile environments and a collaborative mindset, since this work involves frequent communication across teams
- Use of AI and emerging tools to improve the quality and efficiency of software delivery
- Must have lived and worked in the United States for at least 3 out of the last 5 years
- Some clients may request occasional travel. If that is a concern, we encourage you to apply and discuss it at your initial interview
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open source libraries or packages, especially published to npm or PyPI
- Development experience in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
- Experience with infrastructure as code (for example, Terraform or CloudFormation) and containers
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment systems such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins
- Experience with rules engines or configuration-driven eligibility and orchestration logic
- Experience building multilingual or localized interfaces, progressive web apps, or React Native
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as DataDog
- Familiarity with the U.S. Web Design System
- Experience working with government agencies or in civic technology
- You are a U.S. Veteran. As a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, we welcome and encourage Veterans to apply
Benefits
- Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
- Competitive salary
- Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
- 401K matching
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
- Employer paid life insurance
- Self-managed and generous paid time off
- Paid federal holidays and two floating holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Self-managed professional development spending
- Self-managed wellness days
- 401(k) with employer matching
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
- Flexible PTO
- Paid federal holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Sick time and wellness days
Company Overview
Agile Six is a people-first, fully remote company that serves shoulder-to-shoulder with federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Chula Vista, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://agile6.com/.