Agile Six is a people-first, remote-work company that serves shoulder-to-shoulder with federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. We build better by putting people first. We are animated by our core values of Purpose, Wholeness, Trust, Self-Management and Inclusion. We deliver our solutions in autonomous teams of self-managed professionals (no managers here!) who genuinely care about each other and the work. We know that’s our company’s purpose – and that we can only achieve it by supporting a culture where people feel valued, self-managed, and love to come to work.
The role
Agile Six is looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join a new team partnering with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to build a new, integrated patient portal on VA.gov. The mission of this effort is to integrate VA’s digital patient experiences currently provided by MyHealthevet (MHV) with VA’s other digital tools to give Veterans one place to manage their VA health care, community care, disability benefits, and other VA information.
The successful candidate will be contributing to the following GitHub repository, and potentially others within the VA ecosystem:
Responsibilities
- This role centers on crafting components and service APIs in React.js and Ruby on Rails, using various frameworks and architectures to thoughtfully integrate advanced features. This is a hands-on coding role.
- In this role, you’ll work with others to solve technical challenges, design effective solutions, troubleshoot production issues, and improve system performance. You’ll apply design patterns to support quality decisions and contribute to maintaining standards through code reviews, tools, testing strategies, and metrics.
- You’ll apply your experience to make informed architectural decisions, using design patterns and best practices to maintain quality through code reviews and metrics. Your exposure to diverse systems will help you make effective choices for architecture and scalability, supporting smoother workflows and enhancing the development process.
- We value teamwork and mentorship. In this role, you’ll support colleagues through code reviews and pair programming, helping to strengthen their skills and improve code quality. You’ll also communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams to foster a collaborative environment.
- This position encourages you to champion innovative ideas and support others in engaging with new approaches. By sharing context and connecting team members to the broader goals, you’ll help address challenges holistically and contribute to meaningful, systemic improvements and make informed trade offs.
- We expect this role and the responsibilities associated with it to grow and change over time. We value agility, and count on your ability to adapt and grow your skills as the team and needs of the project evolve.
- Support the practice of engineering within the organization as needed, through activities such as help with recruitment and hiring, code challenges, and participating in our community of practice.
Basic qualifications
- Experience self-organizing: taking ownership of assigning and managing your own work
- Bias to action; you’ve proactively tried new things of your own volition
- Pragmatic decision-making skills and the ability to weigh and navigate tradeoffs
- A strong sense of experimentation, eager to innovate, using hypothesis-driven development
- With 7 years as a Software Engineer, you’ve worked with complex architectures across multiple products and business domains, while also building strong expertise in specific areas. You have deep experience with multiple languages and automated testing tools for them. You have solid experience maintaining and refining design and implementation choices over time.
- You incorporate AI and emerging technologies to boost work efficiency and quality. Your deep understanding of design patterns and software development principles allows you to apply them effectively across various parts of the software stack, utilizing multiple languages and frameworks.
- You thrive in Agile environments, focusing on team success and embodying an Agile mindset throughout your work.
- Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 out of the last 5 years
- Some of our clients may request or require travel from time to time. If this is a concern for you, we encourage you to apply and discuss it with us at your initial interview
Additional desired qualifications
- Development experience in cloud environments like AWS or Azure.
- Experience with polyglot programming, using multiple languages, leveraging strengths of each language
- Expertise in continuous integration and deployment systems such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
- Familiarity with the U.S. Web Design System.
- Experience working with government agencies.
- You are a U.S. Veteran. As a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, we recognize the transition to civilian life can be tricky, and welcome and encourage Veterans to apply.
At Agile Six, we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people who believe in our mission and who can contribute to our team in a variety of ways.
Salary and Sixer Benefits
To promote pay equity, we publish salary ranges for each position.
The salary for this position is $145,380-$152,835
Our benefits are designed to reinforce our core values of Wholeness, Self Management and Inclusion. The following benefits are available to all employees. We respect that only you know what balance means for your life and season. While we offer support from coaches, we expect you to own your wholeness, show up for work whole, and go home to your family the same. You will be seen, heard and valued. We expect you to offer the same for your colleagues, be kind (not controlling), be caring (not directive) and ready to participate in a state of flow. We mean it when we say “We build better by putting people first”.
All Sixers Enjoy:
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Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
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Competitive and equitable salary (equal pay for equal work)
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Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
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401K matching
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Medical, dental, and vision insurance
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Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
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Employer paid life insurance
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Self-managed and generous paid time off
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Paid federal holidays and two floating holidays
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Paid parental leave
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Self-managed professional development spending
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Self-managed wellness days
Hiring practices
Agile Six Applications, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.
Note: We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.
If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation in applying for any of these positions, please reach out to careers@agile6.com. We want to ensure you have the ability to apply for any position at Agile Six.
Please read and respond to the application questions carefully. Interviews are conducted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.
