Agile Six is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to enhance digital tools for Veterans on VA.gov and the VA Health and Benefits mobile app. This is a hands-on coding role focusing on improving claim status visibility, modernizing back-end systems, and increasing accessibility for critical benefits processes.
What You'll Do
- Craft components and service APIs using various frameworks and architectures to thoughtfully integrate advanced features.
- Work with others to solve technical challenges, design effective solutions, troubleshoot production issues, and improve system performance.
- Apply design patterns to support quality decisions and contribute to maintaining standards through code reviews, tools, testing strategies, and metrics.
- Identify and integrate AI-powered tools and services into the software development lifecycle to improve efficiency and quality.
- Proactively identify, promote, and support opportunities for the team to leverage AI, and provide coaching for team members.
- Support colleagues through code reviews and pair programming to strengthen skills and improve code quality.
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams to foster a collaborative environment.
- Champion innovative ideas and support others in engaging with new approaches.
- Support the practice of engineering within the organization through activities such as help with recruitment, hiring, code challenges, and participating in the community of practice.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years as a Software Engineer, with experience working with complex architectures across multiple products and business domains.
- Deep experience with multiple programming languages and automated testing tools.
- Solid experience maintaining and refining design and implementation choices over time.
- Experience experimenting with and/or utilizing AI tools and services to create and deliver software, and a strong willingness to leverage AI where appropriate.
- Thrive in Agile environments, focusing on team success and embodying an Agile mindset.
- Experience self-organizing: taking ownership of assigning and managing your own work.
- Bias to action; proactively trying new things of your own volition.
- Pragmatic decision-making skills and the ability to weigh and navigate tradeoffs.
- A strong sense of experimentation, eager to innovate, using hypothesis-driven development.
- Lived and worked in the United States for 3 out of the last 5 years.
Nice to Have
- Development experience in cloud environments like AWS or Azure.
- Experience with polyglot programming, using multiple languages, leveraging strengths of each language.
- Expertise in continuous integration and deployment systems such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
- Experience leveraging AI tools and services to create and deliver software to production in a professional capacity.
- Familiarity with the U.S. Web Design System.
- Experience working with government agencies.
- You are a U.S. Veteran.
Team & Environment
You will join autonomous teams of self-managed professionals (no managers), delivering solutions in an environment where team members genuinely care about each other and the work.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive and equitable salary of $152,305 (equal pay for equal work)
- 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 work/life balance and flexibility
- 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
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to individuals located anywhere within the United States.
Agile Six is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
