Senior Engineering Manager (Java)

Nava PBC; Virginia; Remote; USD 136,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Insurance coverage

Time off

Company holidays

Annual bonus

Parental leave

Wellness program

Virtual care

Sabbatical leave

401(k) match

Flexible work

Home office setup

Utility support

Learning opportunities

Development opportunities

Referral bonus

Commuter benefits

Supportive culture

Job summary

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to guide career growth and deliver technology solutions for government clients.

You will balance leadership with hands-on technical work, collaborating with product, design, and vendors to deliver secure, reliable cloud-based systems. The role emphasizes technical leadership, roadmap design, architecture review, and proactive stakeholder engagement across a remote-friendly, US-wide team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in agile, multidisciplinary teams in cloud environments.
• 1+ year as a People Manager.
• Production-grade cloud-native microservices with Java/Spring Boot.
• Experience with Postgres, JDBC, and Hibernate.
• DevOps experience, preferably Jenkins CI/CD.
• AWS cloud native services experience.
• Strong problem-solving and initiative.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Write code and review code to ensure quality.
• Write and review technical specs for projects.
• Collaborate with product teams to mitigate technical risks.
• Guide planning, estimation, prioritization, and trade-offs.
• Review architectures and designs from other teams.
• Design and enforce technical roadmaps and architectures.
• Maintain production systems and on-call incident response.
• Lead and contribute to cross-functional delivery.

Skills

10+ years experience

People Manager

Java / Spring Boot

Cloud-native microservices

Postgres / JDBC / Hibernate

AWS / cloud services

DevOps / Jenkins

Strategic thinking

Effective communication

Tools

Jenkins

Job description

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.

Position summary

Nava’s Software Engineering Manager is responsible for the career growth of their direct reports, ensuring reports receive guidance, relevant feedback and are correctly compensated. As a manager at Nava, you are also a technical contributor as either an individual contributor or a technical lead. Although the focus is on technical leadership, the incumbent is also a technical contributor who engages with cross-functional leadership, technical delivery teams, users, and vendors to ensure the successful design, development, and delivery of technology-based solutions in support of Nava’s culture and mission: Be Active Stewards, Pursue the Root Cause, Think Long-Term, Build Together, Inclusion is Essential and Progress Takes Work.

What you'll do

Engineering Management/Technical Leadership

• Writing code and performing code reviews
• Writing and reviewing technical specifications
• Working closely with cross-functional product teams to identify and mitigate technical risks
• Guiding the engineering team on planning, estimation, prioritization, trade-offs, and balancing technical debt and meeting project milestones
• Review architecture and designs from other project teams
• Designing technical roadmaps
• Proposing and enforcing technical architecture
• Maintaining production systems
• Handling on-call duties and systematically debugging and resolving issues when they occur

Contributing to growing Nava’s client portfolio

• Working on business development bids
• Participating in client stakeholder meetings related to growth
• Working with government stakeholders to get buy-in on technical initiatives
• Strategizing with leadership on ways to grow projects
• Attending conferences and networking with potential clients
• Reviewing strategy plans and outlining technical requirements for potential work

Required skills

• At least 10 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale on Cloud platforms
• 1 or more years experience as a People Manager
• Experience designing and implementing production-grade, cloud-native microservices and RESTful APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and containerized deployment patterns
• Experience with using relational databases, preferably Postgres, using JDBC and ORM mappers like Hibernate
• Experience with DevOps, preferably with Jenkins CI/CD
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud native services and data engineering
• Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate on working code
• Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented
• Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short-term vs. long term benefitsAn adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise
• Prior experience working with stakeholders

Compensation

$135,900—$153,000 USD

Other requirements

All roles at Nava require the following:

Legal authorization to work in the United States

Ability to meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired

Work authorization that doesn’t require visa sponsorship, now or in the future

May be subject to a government background check or security clearance, depending on the contract

Perks working with Nava

Health coverage — comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans to support your overall health needs

Insurance coverage — Nava provides disability, life, and accidental death insurance at no cost

Time off — vacation, holidays (including Juneteenth), and floating holidays to rest and recharge

Company holidays — enjoy 12 paid federal holidays each year on top of your regular PTO

Annual bonus — when Nava meets its goals, eligible employees receive a performance-based annual bonus

Parental leave — paid time off for new parents, plus weekly meals delivered to your home

Wellness program — full platform offering physical, mental, & emotional health resources & support tools

Virtual care — see doctors online with no copay through a virtual visit program (depending on available providers)

Sabbatical leave — earn extended unpaid leave after continuous service for personal growth or rest

401(k) match — Nava matches 4% of your salary to support your retirement savings plan

Flexible work — remote-first environment with flexibility built around your schedule and responsibilities

Home office setup — company laptop & setup assistance provided via Staples for remote work needs

Utility support — monthly reimbursement to help offset eligible home office utility expenses

Learning opportunities — internal training programs and resources to help grow your professional skills

Development opportunities — LinkedIn Learning access & an annual allowance for courses, tuition, & certs

Referral bonus — get rewarded when you refer great people who join the Nava team

Commuter benefits — pre-tax commuter programs to support in-office travel when applicable

Supportive culture — A collaborative and remote-friendly team environment where people genuinely care

Location

We have fully remote options if you reside in one of the following states:

Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin

*If you are not living in one of the states listed above, unfortunately, you will not be considered for a position at this time.

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. This role requires you to work from the contiguous United States.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Nava is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, gender and/or gender identity or expression, color, creed, religion, religious creed, age, national origin, ethnicity, disability, veteran or military status, sex, sexual orientation, reproductive health autonomy, pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth, genetic information, domestic violence victim status, marital status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Nava prohibits any such discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to all employees, applicants, contractors, and temporary workers of Nava.