Fullstack Backend Engineer

Agile Six is a remote, people-first company working with federal agencies to develop human-centered solutions, emphasizing autonomy, inclusion, and purpose.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $129,233

Responsibilities

• Build components and service APIs, using various frameworks and architectures to thoughtfully integrate features.
• Collaborate with teammates and other teams to identify requirements, solve technical challenges, design effective solutions, troubleshoot production issues, and improve system performance.
• Apply design patterns to support quality decisions and contribute to maintaining standards through code reviews, tools, testing strategies, and metrics.
• Apply your experience to make informed architectural decisions, using design patterns and best practices to maintain quality through code reviews and metrics.
• Support colleagues through code reviews and pair programming, helping to strengthen their skills and improve code quality.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams to foster a collaborative environment.
• Champion innovative ideas and support others in engaging with new approaches.
• Leverage AI-powered IDEs to analyze existing code, develop features, write unit tests, and debug issues.
• Support engineering practices through outreach, recruitment, and participation in communities of practice.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep experience with Ruby on Rails, Javascript/Typescript with React, and testing frameworks such as React Testing Library and RSpec.
• Experience working with complex architectures across multiple products and business domains.
• Experience self-organizing: taking ownership of assigning and managing your own work.
• Pragmatic decision-making skills and the ability to weigh and navigate tradeoffs.
• A strong sense of experimentation, eager to innovate, using hypothesis-driven development.
• Solid experience maintaining and refining design and implementation choices over time.
• Experience working with a Services Oriented Architecture and integrating with the APIs of other teams.
• Experience experimenting with and/or utilizing AI tools and services.
• Thrives in Agile environments.
• A commitment to documentation.
• Strong sense of ownership and a collaborative mindset.
• Has lived and worked in the US for 3 out of the last 5 years.

Benefits

• Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility.
• Competitive salary.
• Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP).
• 401K matching.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employer paid short and long term disability insurance.
• Employer paid life insurance.
• Self-managed and generous paid time off.
• Paid federal holidays and two floating holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Self-managed professional development spending.
• Self-managed wellness days.

Additional Information

• Position responsibilities and requirements may evolve over time.