What you'll do
- Working 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
- Working in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs
- Creating tools and processes to automate our development, testing, and production workflows
- Writing and reviewing technical documentation, performing code reviews
- Participating in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur
- Taking part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed
Required skills
- Open to Backend engineers
- At least 5 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale on Cloud platforms
- Experience developing applications and APIs Java, Spring Boot, Go, OpenAPI, Fargate, Lambda
- Experience utilizing AWS cloud native services and data engineering
- Current and/or prior experience developing API endpoints with Java or Go
- Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate in working code
- Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented.Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short term vs. long term benefits
- An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise
Desired skills
- Experience using Apache Spark and Parquet for data engineering
- Experience with Node.js and Next.js (Javascript)
Top Skills
What We Do
Nava is a public benefit corporation working to radically improve how government serves people. Formed as a team of designers and engineers in the effort to fix HealthCare.gov in 2013, Nava now works with Medicare and the Department of Veterans Affairs. With a strong research practice and a depth of experience scaling digital services, Nava helps more than sixty million people access critical government services.
We’re thinkers and designers of civic technology. We work holistically across engineering, research, design, and operations to proactively envision the services of a better future. We build with empathy and inclusion, and as we come from many backgrounds and countries ourselves, we seek and value different perspectives. We’d love for you to come join us.
