Job Description

What Will You Do?

As a Senior Engineer, you will play a vital role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality engineering solutions. You will work closely with the Program Engineering Lead and the product delivery team to maintain sufficient engineering staffing and quality deliverables. Your technical expertise and leadership will be key in guiding the development team through complex projects.

Responsibilities

Coordinate with the Program Engineering Lead and the product delivery team to ensure sufficient engineering staffing and quality engineering deliverables.

Support a development team using a mix of technologies, including Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Java, and Python.

Adhere to modern software development practices, including accessibility, documentation, testing, observability, and monitoring.

Ensure engineering decisions are architecturally sound with future maintainability in mind.

Participate in and facilitate software design meetings, architectural intent, and decision-making discussions, and similar activities.

Identify and implement improvements to the developer experience, including quick and effective onboarding of new engineers and ease of development and testing across products.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and evolve features for the va.gov application (including vets-api and vets-website) to meet features as described in the team backlog.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

5+ years of experience in software development, preferably in a senior engineering role.

Strong proficiency with Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Java, Git, and Python.

Familiarity with agile software development practices.

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Strong communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Experience in contributing to and facilitating design and architectural discussions.

Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.