Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation working to make government services simple and effective. The role involves working on small teams to build scalable applications for government partners, focusing on modernizing legacy systems to improve user access and experiences.
Responsibilities
- Work with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software
- Collaborate with government partners 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 our development, testing, and production workflows
- Write and review technical documentation, performing code reviews
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur
- Take part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed
Skills
- Experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Typescript
- At least 5 years of experience of full-stack engineering contributing development initiatives, in a fast paced, dynamic environment in a self directed manner, that required minimal supervision
- Meaningful experience working on web-based systems, both front-end and back-end
- Experience working on large-scale applications and systems
- An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset
- Ability to think holistically around engineering issues
- Knowledge of engineering fundamentals and architecture
- Expertise developing well-crafted software
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise
- Experience with modern web development frameworks
- Experience designing and implementing application architectures and code that is highly scalable, available, and performant
- Self-directed, requiring minimal supervision
- Ability to work with others on a team
- Previous experience as a software engineer
- Aptitude for giving and receiving feedback
- Experience with testing, specifically automated testing
- Knowing code quality tools such as Linter
- Experience with system design such as designing systems that will be sustainable with high usage, designing a front end and back end that talk to each other
- Legal authorization to work in the United States
- Ability to meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired
- Work authorization that doesn't require visa sponsorship, now or in the future
- May be subject to a government background check or security clearance, depending on the contract
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans to support your overall health needs
- Nava provides disability, life, and accidental death insurance at no cost
- Vacation, holidays (including Juneteenth), and floating holidays to rest and recharge
- Enjoy 12 paid federal holidays each year on top of your regular PTO
- When Nava meets its goals, eligible employees receive a performance-based annual bonus
- Paid time off for new parents, plus weekly meals delivered to your home
- Full platform offering physical, mental, & emotional health resources & support tools
- See doctors online with no copay through UnitedHealthcare’s virtual visit program
- Earn extended unpaid leave after continuous service for personal growth or rest
- Nava matches 4% of your salary to support your retirement savings plan
- Remote-first environment with flexibility built around your schedule and responsibilities
- Company laptop & setup assistance provided via Staples for remote work needs
- Monthly reimbursement to help offset eligible home office utility expenses
- Internal training programs and resources to help grow your professional skills
- LinkedIn Learning access & an annual allowance for courses, tuition, & certs
- Get rewarded when you refer great people who join the Nava team
- Pre-tax commuter programs to support in-office travel when applicable
- A collaborative and remote-friendly team environment where people genuinely care
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