Senior Software Engineer

Are you seeking an exciting and unique opportunity to grow and support our national security? As a startup, we are offering a limited‑time opportunity to be an equity owner in a pioneering new industry. Nooks is pioneering Classified Infrastructure‑as‑a‑Service (CIaaS) to provide government and industry partners with the fastest, most efficient access to classified infrastructure. We are building a nationwide network of accredited classified spaces and systems, ensuring that the best technologies equip our nation’s warfighters.

At Nooks, we value innovation, collaboration, and a service‑first mindset.

Nooks is hiring a Senior Software Engineer and Architect to build the next generation of secure infrastructure and software services powering mission‑critical national security operations. You'll partner closely with our product team and our staff engineer to develop resilient, scalable systems that serve both government and industry customers across a growing network of classified environments.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll lead development of secure applications that underpin Nooks’ CIaaS platform. This role requires strong expertise in backend technologies, comfort and competency with front‑end work, and a commitment to security, quality, automation, and scalability. You’ll contribute as an individual engineer while helping establish our engineering culture and mentoring others as the team grows.

• Participate in decisions on “how” we deliver software (architecture, languages, decision delegation, contracting, DIY, model selection and integration).
• Partner on the “what, when, who and why” of our software with Design and Product.
• Lead a major feature or application.
• Support junior engineering talent with mentorship and/or technical guidance.
• Build secure multi‑tenant services on public cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.
• Build, architect, and consume APIs and backend services as part of the platform ecosystem, with an emphasis on automation, testing, and security.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance and their impact on your team and others.
• Interact with customers and partners, assisting them with integration of our services.

• 6+ years of progressively responsible software engineering experience.
• Excellent communication skills; experience working with end‑users to design and build solutions to their needs.
• A habit of self‑directed learning of new technologies, and the ability to learn quickly and adapt to a fast‑paced environment.
• Must have led the architecture, development, and building of backend services and APIs to ensure performance, security, and reliability.
• An ability to successfully own technical problems end‑to‑end.
• Extensive experience with Python, FastAPI, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Demonstrable, in‑depth knowledge of at least one major commercial cloud platform and its associated services (e.g., AWS, GCP).
• Must have made enough mistakes, and booked enough wins, to know what not to build and what good looks like.

Remote with preference for proximity to Washington D.C., Colorado Springs, or El Segundo, CA.

• Candidate must be a United States citizen and capable of maintaining Security eligibility up to the Top Secret/SCI level within 45 days of hire.

$140,000 – $180,000 USD.

As set forth in Nooks’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.