[Remote] Software Engineer, Fullstack and Developer Experience

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

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