Software Engineer; ruby

Overview

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 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.

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.

• 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.

• Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java Script
• At least 4 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.
• Meaningful experience working on web-based systems, both front-end and back-end
• Experience working on large-scale applications and systems
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset
• Ability to think holistically around engineering issues
• Knowledge of engineering fundamentals and architecture
• Expertise developing well-crafted software
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise
• Experience with modern web development frameworks
• Experience designing and implementing application architectures and code that is highly scalable, available, and performant
• Self-directed, requiring minimal supervision
• Ability to work with others on a team
• Previous experience as a software engineer
• Aptitude for giving and receiving feedback
• Experience with testing, specifically automated testing
• Knowing code quality tools such as Linter
• Experience with system design such as designing systems that will be sustainable with high usage, designing a front end and back end that talk to each other

All roles at Nava require the following:

• Legal authorization to work in the United…