Who we are:
Raft (https://goraft.tech) is a full stack digital consulting firm with niche expertise in rapid delivery of modern, user-first, scalable, and data-intensive digital solutions for government agencies, with headquarters in Reston, VA. Our range of clients includes the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the U.S. Air Force. We develop digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.
Our team is growing again and looking for an enthusiastic Senior Software Engineering Lead with client engagement experience to join our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers. We enjoy the challenges of human-centered design, security, and scale to create better outcomes for our federal agency partners. We are a remote-first and work completely in the open source.
What you will do:
- Architect scalable and maintainable technical approach and ensure implementation of the approach
- Actively develop public-facing digital solutions
- Mentor software engineering team through pairing and performing code reviews
- Work closely with the client and other key stakeholders to provide strategic input and help navigate needs and tradeoffs to build extensible digital solutions
Who you are:
- Have several years of experience of architecting and building responsive and accessible web applications
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and understand identity and authentication
- Enjoy building digital solutions using user-centered philosophy instead of technology-based approach
- Have built applications using API-first development and eager to learn new technologies
- Comfortable using command line tools (know ZSH) and have a preference for your dot files
- Can communicate and breakdown complex technical concepts to non-technical team members and stakeholders
- Enjoy working with a user experience (UX) focussed cross-functional product team
- Experience with at least one agile methodology, including Scrum, or Kanban
- Love to demo your work to the team