Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Navapbc; United States; Remote; USD 136,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Disability, life, and accidental death

Vacation and holidays

Annual bonus

Parental leave

Wellness program

Virtual care

Sabbatical leave

401(k) match

Flexible work

Home office setup

Learning opportunities

Development opportunities

Referral bonus

Commuter benefits

Supportive culture

Job summary

Nava is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to elevate engineering quality, lead migrations, and collaborate with government stakeholders to implement scalable systems. You will mentor teams, review architecture, and drive technical roadmaps while maintaining production systems and on-call responsibilities.

Join a remote-first environment with opportunities to shape client solutions, expand Nava’s portfolio, and address critical government modernization challenges.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years in agile, multidisciplinary teams, building cloud platforms.
• Experience designing production-grade cloud-native microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Postgres and ORM mappers.
• DevOps experience, preferably Jenkins CI/CD.
• Experience with AWS cloud native services and data engineering.
• Strong problem-solving and mentoring abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Write code and perform code reviews.
• Draft and review technical specifications.
• Collaborate with product teams to mitigate technical risks.
• Guide planning, estimation, prioritization, and technical debt balance.
• Review architecture and designs from other teams.
• Design technical roadmaps and enforce architecture.
• Maintain production systems and handle on-call duties.
• Debug and resolve issues in production environments.
• Contribute to growing Nava’s client portfolio through bids and stakeholder meetings.
• Strategize with leadership to grow projects and attend conferences.

Skills

Cloud-native microservices

RESTful APIs

Postgres

AWS

Jenkins CI/CD

Hibernate

JDBC

Spring Boot

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Spring Boot

Hibernate

JDBC

AWS

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

The Senior Software Engineer’s purpose is to improve overall engineering quality through documentation, technical guidance and mentoring, and applying best practices to the work. The incumbent leads significant migration efforts and routinely works with government stakeholders to get buy-in on technical initiatives. This role collaborates with the product team, government stakeholders, and other contractors to build new systems and make improvements to existing systems. These responsibilities support Nava’s culture and mission.

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
• 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 benefits
• An 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

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.

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, 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.

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.