Software/Senior Engineer (Ruby)

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Nava</strong></h2> <div>Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation working to make government services simple and effective. Since 2015, federal, state, and local agencies have trusted Nava to help solve highly scrutinized technology modernization challenges.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>As a client services company, we guide agencies constrained by legacy systems to a future with sharp user experiences built on secure, reliable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure. We bill for our time, offering our expertise and problem-solving approach to help our government partners enhance their digital products and services. People are at the heart of our work, from members of the public who rely on benefit programs to government agency staff. Through human-centered design and modern engineering best practices, we help our government partners understand user needs and deliver on their missions more effectively. This focus gives everyone at Nava the opportunity to do work that is meaningful, impactful, and deeply connected to public good.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div></div><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="job-description"> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><strong>This role is open for multiple levels and titles. Final title/compensation will be determined by how your interview weighs against our core competencies during your interview cycle</strong></em></span></h2> <h2><strong>Position summary&nbsp;</strong></h2> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You will work on small teams to build scalable applications for our government—designing, implementing, and delivering services that millions of Americans depend on. You care deeply about working on technology that improves people’s lives, but don’t think technology is always the answer. You are passionate about building large-scale systems that are inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure, and you'll help set high standards for our teams in terms of simplicity, empathy, and accessibility.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The full stack engineer in this role will be focused on Ruby on Rails and developing end to end systems for one of Nava's major government partners. The objective is to modernize an existing legacy enterprise platform to improve its public facing processes, and experiences which will enable users to have more access to the programs and services that they need, in real-time, in a more user friendly and uncomplicated way. This individual will be involved in everything, from strategy, and planning through to post production testing, and support.</span></div> </div> <h2>What you'll do</h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Work with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate with government partners and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Work in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Create tools and processes to automate our development, testing, and production workflows</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Write and review technical documentation, performing code reviews</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Take part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed</span></li> </ul> <h2>Required skills</h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Typescript</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Meaningful experience working on web-based systems, both front-end and back-end</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience working on large-scale applications and systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ability to think holistically around engineering issues</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Knowledge of engineering fundamentals and architecture&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Expertise developing well-crafted software</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with modern web development frameworks</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience designing and implementing application architectures and code that is highly scalable, available, and performant</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Self-directed, requiring minimal supervision</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ability to work with others on a team</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Previous experience as a software engineer</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Aptitude for giving and