Job Description

Public Trust: Other

Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by providing services that help the government ensure the well being of U.S. citizens.

Job Description

Principal Software Developer

We value:

• Writing code rather than documents
• Shipping products rather than talking about roadmaps
• Big features rather than changing button colors

If this sounds like you, let’s talk.

Who You Are:

We're looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about our mission and have a strong desire to make a meaningful impact. The ideal candidate will be proficient in Python/Java or similar language; an expert in majority of language constructs, able to apply them fluently to solve complicated and complex problems and have experience with performance tuning.

What You’ll Do:

• Work in a fast paced, collaborative environment where ideas are discussed and challenged openly
• Deliver new features and improve reliability of our core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination
• Identify major system bottlenecks, or flaws in business logic, and proactively address them
• Take ownership over core product problems, be able to come up with your own solutions that you love and prove through data that it is impactful at scale
• Work across the stack to solve problems, there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you
• Lead a team of Developers to engineer and develop software to solve complex user problems.

Required Skills and Education: 

• Minimum of 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Minimum of 10+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience (Java and/or Python)
• Minimum of 10+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Must have experience designing a non-trivial distributed system (multi-tier) - storage layers, caching layers, application layers, understanding of failure modes, expertise with applying a strangler-pattern to transform a system from a monolith to a microservice architecture
• Must have Microservice Architecture experience, especially with high throughput and low-latency systems
• Experience working with complex systems migration involving multiple phases with dark reads, dark writes, light reads, light writes 
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C
• Positions are remote, but some travel to DC, approx. 10-25% 

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

10 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required

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