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Agile Six is a people-first, remote-work company that serves shoulder-to-shoulder with federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. We build better by putting people first. We are animated by our core values of Purpose, Wholeness, Trust, Self-Management and Inclusion. We deliver our solutions in autonomous teams of self-managed professionals (no managers here!) who genuinely care about each other and the work. We know that’s our company’s purpose – and that we can only achieve it by supporting a culture where talented people feel valued, self-managed, and love to come to work.

The role

Agile Six is seeking a Senior Back End/DevOps Software Engineer who is looking to build, deploy and improve user-friendly, mobile-ready, accessible, and secure applications using modern techniques and best practices, including continuous integration and testing and automated deployments in scalable cloud hosting environments. You will be able to bring software development principles and best practices to a range of problems and be able to learn new tools, languages and frameworks as necessary. Most importantly, you will have a passion for working on important problems that have a lasting impact on millions of users and make a difference in our government!

You will join a talented and purpose-driven cross-functional team creating a unified Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center check-in experience for Veterans across multiple service touch points and interactions. In alignment with the US Digital Services Playbook, the project will leverage Human-centered research and design best practices, modern open source technologies, cloud infrastructures, and DevSecOps practices, all delivered within an Agile framework.

Responsibilities

Create, maintain, deploy and integrate secure RESTful service APIs using NodeJS + Lambda, API Gateway, Terraform and other Amazon Web Services
Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines, application monitoring, and other DevOps infrastructure as necessary
Understand the technical "big picture" and be able to provide guidance on solution direction, architecture, and tool selection
Proactively find and reduce technical debt (with a focus on tech debt that is frequently an impediment to the rest of the team)
Identify root causes and resolve functional and performance issues in applications running at scale
Understand and evaluate technical, resource, and timeline risks, be able to provide mitigation strategies and see them through
Leverage an expert understanding of design patterns, software engineering principles and best practices to create software components and services, guide architectural decisions, and solve complex technical problems
Communicate technical design concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and through diagrams
Work “in the open” using a public Github repository and issue tracker, and using collaborative communication channels such as Slack
Provide guidance and informal leadership to the team through code reviews, pair coding mentorship, etc.
Participate and be fully engaged in all team meetings and Agile ceremonies, including, but not limited to, daily standup meetings, sprint planning and backlog refinement meetings, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
Work with the Product Owner and other teammates to ensure that work is accurately described and appropriately prioritized, including providing input into product roadmaps, product and sprint backlogs, and user stories
Build and sustain strong relationships with the internal team and external partners
Support the practice of engineering within the larger company as needed through activities such as:
- Assisting in outreach, recruitment, and hiring efforts
- Occasionally participating in or otherwise supporting business development efforts, including code or design challenges, writing or reviewing proposal responses, etc.
- Participating in communities of practice
We expect the responsibilities of this position to shift and grow organically over time, in response to considerations such as the unique strengths and interests of the selected candidate and other team members and an evolving understanding of the delivery environment

Basic qualifications

At least eight (8) years of experience as a software engineer
At least two (2) years of professional experience building or contributing to DevOps infrastructure (writing scripts, configuring CI/CD pipelines, etc.) in a cloud environment
Hands-on experience building production REST APIs using NodeJS and serverless frameworks such as AWS Lambda
Understanding of DevOps best practices: CI/CD, Test Automation, Pipeline monitoring, evangelizing DevOps culture
Ability to develop, maintain, and deploy code using remote source control management within a continuous integration framework
Experience in an open, collaborative development environment
Is adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and holds a positive mindset
Ability to be autonomous and can take initiative
Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 out of the last 5 years

Additional desired qualifications

Experience working in healthcare
Experience working in Javascript frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue
Experience with Terraform or other IaC platforms
Experience with Jira and Confluence
Experience developing in the AWS cloud
Previously contributed to at least one open source project
Experience working in or with government agencies, especially the VA
You are a U.S. Veteran

Salary and Sixer Benefits

To promote equal pay for equal work, we publish salary ranges for each position.

The salary for this position is $151,709 - $159,489

Our benefits are designed to reinforce our core values of Wholeness, Self Management and Inclusion. The following benefits are available to all employees. We respect that only you know what balance means for your life and season. While we offer support from coaches, we expect you to own your wholeness, show up for work whole, and go home to your family the same. You will be seen, heard and valued. We expect you to offer the same for your colleagues, be kind (not controlling), be caring (not directive) and ready to participate in a state of flow. We mean it when we say “We build better by putting people first”.

All Sixers Enjoy:

Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
Competitive and equitable salary (equal pay for equal work)
Tenure-based profit sharing
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 Election day off
Paid parental leave
Self-managed professional development spending
Self-managed wellness days

Hiring practices

Agile Six Applications, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

Note: We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. This role is required to work from the contiguous United States. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation in applying for any of these positions, please reach out to careers@agile6.com. We want to ensure you have the ability to apply for any position at Agile Six.

Please read and respond to the application questions carefully. Interviews are conducted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.