Description 

Blue Tiger is looking for a full-time Software Engineer to join our talented team of technologists.

Mission impact 

For this role, you will work with federal government employees, designers, and technologists to design and create digital content for public use and benefit. 

You will work as part of a team supporting an important healthcare mission with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The product you will support helps serve the nation’s most economically disadvantaged populations, including many with complex and costly health care needs.

About Blue Tiger

Blue Tiger is a team of design, engineering, data, and product experts dedicated to building simple, reliable, and scalable public services. We partner with government agencies to deliver great software, applying human-centered design and software development practices in complex, regulated environments.  You’ll be a key part of our growing team of civic technologists, excited about making an impact on how government serves the public through technology.

Requirements

What you’ll do:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance complex software systems
• Analyze a set of business requirements, break them into technical features and tasks, and visualize how the different aspects of the system will come together through data structures, APIs, etc.
• Be a member of a cross-functional team with members including user experience professionals, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists
• Craft technical solutions across the entirety of a system, including UI development, API development, and everything in between 
• Adhere to lean-agile engineering principles 
• Advocate for and use modern software engineering best practices such as API-first design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
• Analyze systems to identify technical debt, instability, unreliability, and other opportunities for improvement, and design, document, and communicate solutions
• Represent Blue Tiger's culture of delivery when interacting with government stakeholders and other contractors

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience building applications using Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or other open-source programming languages.
• 5+ years of experience working with APIs.
• 5+ years of experience working with React, Redux, and Node.js.
• 5+ years of experience developing software in a distributed team environment.
• 2+ years of experience with Apache Kafka
• 5+ years of experience with backend software development
• Expertise in the building blocks of the web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSON. This includes how to write accessible semantic HTML and clean CSS that conforms to design systems.
• Experience building applications using modern client-side frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue.js.
• In-depth knowledge of how to deliver application architectures and code that are highly scalable, available, and performant
• Expertise in using version control systems such as GitHub
• Experience with backend concepts and technologies such as data structures, NoSQL design patterns, Lambda, and DynamoDB
• Experience working hands-on within a cloud environment like AWS (especially with AWS CDK) or Azure.
• Ability to author developer-friendly documentation, such as API documentation and deployment operations
• Commitment to delivering polished, easy-to-read, well-documented code (ESLint & Prettier are a plus).
• Proven ability to apply good software engineering principles and practices
• Ability to select and use the best tools for the job, particularly open-source solutions
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
• Experience working within a scrum/agile development methodology and environment

We encourage all interested candidates to apply. If you have more experience beyond what is detailed here, we’d be happy to take a look. If you meet most but not all of the requirements, we still want to hear from you! 

Benefits

The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $160,000.

We focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:

• 100% coverage of employee Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Automatic 401(k) contribution of 10% of your salary by the company, with no vesting period and no required individual contribution
• Paid time off, including 25 vacation days, 12 federal holidays, and unlimited sick leave
• Bonuses for annual performance, business development, company growth, and referrals
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Remote work environment

We participate in E-Verify and, upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.