Senior Software Engineer (Remote) — Civic Tech & CI/CD

Jobs in JS; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Focus is a fully remote digital services firm delivering civic tech solutions to U.S. state and federal clients. The Senior Software Engineer will own diverse work across UI, API, and data tooling, building Playwright test suites, Python data generators, and React interfaces.

You will drive CI/CD in AWS, guide vendor teams, and ensure secure, compliant deployments. The role emphasizes collaboration in a multi-vendor government ecosystem, mentoring teammates, and advancing modern release

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications using TypeScript and Python.
• Experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and using IaC tools like Terraform.
• Experience designing complex systems interacting with multiple external services and APIs.
• Proven experience in cross-functional agile teams and communicating tech updates to clients.
• Strong debugging skills for distributed multi-vendor apps and microservices.
• Experience on federal government digital service projects or civic tech.
• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP, and observability tools.
• Experience implementing synthetic test data generators for enterprise integrations.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end automated UI and API test suites with Playwright and TypeScript.
• Design and build automated data generation tools and synthetic applicant profiles using Python and REST APIs.
• Develop front-end tools in React and TypeScript for external vendors and government stakeholders to generate test scenarios.
• Construct, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support quality gates and feature-driven promotion practices.
• Lead rotating sprint triage to debug system failures across a complex multi-vendor environment and isolate root causes.
• Provide actionable feedback through code reviews and 1:1 mentorship, enforcing high code quality.
• Serve as a trusted technical liaison to client leads and external vendor teams for self-service and release gatekeeping.
• Support cloud infrastructure updates using Terraform and automated security scans with compliance navigation.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Agile teams

Systems integration

Tools

Terraform

AWS GovCloud

REST APIs

Observability

Job description

Focus is a fully remote digital services firm delivering civic tech solutions to U.S. state and federal clients. The Senior Software Engineer will own diverse work across UI, API, and data tooling, building Playwright test suites, Python data generators, and React interfaces.

You will drive CI/CD in AWS, guide vendor teams, and ensure secure, compliant deployments. The role emphasizes collaboration in a multi-vendor government ecosystem, mentoring teammates, and advancing modern release