Full-Stack Rails Engineer for Public Health Platform

DC Department of Human Resources; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority (DCHBX) seeks a software developer to design, build, test, and maintain its health insurance marketplace platform. You will implement full‑stack Ruby on Rails applications, develop RESTful and SOAP APIs for CMS FedHub and state systems, and ensure accessibility compliance across features.

You will work with a service-oriented architecture on AWS EKS, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ, using TDD/BDD with RSpec and Cucumber to deliver reliable

Qualifications

• Experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining full‑stack Ruby on Rails web applications.
• Experience building RESTful and SOAP/XML APIs for healthcare or government integrations.
• Proficient in TDD/BDD with RSpec and Cucumber for acceptance testing.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, tests, and maintains full-stack Ruby on Rails web apps using MVC patterns.
• Develops RESTful and SOAP/XML APIs for federal/state integrations.
• Writes clean, testable code with TDD/BDD and ensures accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.1).
• Maintains CI/CD pipelines and collaborates with DevOps on infrastructure-as-code.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

REST APIs

TDD/BDD

WCAG 2.1

Jira

Tools

RSpec

Cucumber

GitHub Actions

MongoDB

RabbitMQ/AMQP

AWS EKS

Job description

The District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority (DCHBX) seeks a software developer to design, build, test, and maintain its health insurance marketplace platform. You will implement full‑stack Ruby on Rails applications, develop RESTful and SOAP APIs for CMS FedHub and state systems, and ensure accessibility compliance across features.

You will work with a service-oriented architecture on AWS EKS, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ, using TDD/BDD with RSpec and Cucumber to deliver reliable