Software Engineer; Backend- Python

About Nava

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.

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.

You will work on cross‑functional teams to build scalable systems 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.

The Software Engineer role will be responsible for 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.

• 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

• 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 with Python, Fargate, Lambda, OpenAPI, Fargate, Lambda
• Experience working with AWS Step Functions
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud native services and big data technologies such as Apache Spark and Parquet
• 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

• Legal authorization to work in the United States
• Ability to meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired
• Work authorization that doesn't require visa sponsorship, now or in the future
• May be subject to a government background check or security clearance, depending on the contract

• Health coverage - comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans to support your overall health needs
• Insurance coverage - Nava provides disability, life, and accidental death insurance at no cost
• Time off - vacation, holidays (including Juneteenth), and floating…