Senior Software Engineer, TTA Hub – Gov Tech, Public Trust

Missing Link Security; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Missing Link Security is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support the Office of Head Start (OHS) Training and Technical Assistance Data Platform, the TTA Hub, for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The role involves building and maintaining the core TTA Hub application, guiding engineering decisions, code quality, testing, and handling production issues across backend and frontend workstreams.

Qualifications

• Six or more years of experience building and maintaining production web applications.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Strong development experience with Node.js/TypeScript, Express, and React.
• Experience designing and developing APIs.
• Experience working with PostgreSQL.
• Experience working within Agile software-development environments.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices, encryption, and privacy requirements.
• Experience developing and maintaining unit, integration, and functional tests.
• Experience conducting and participating in code reviews.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving production application issues.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and obtain a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain backend and frontend features within the Government repository using the approved technology stack.
• Diagnose architectural issues, software defects, and production outages and support timely restoration of application services.
• Participate in the team's rotating urgent-issue escalation coverage and support timely diagnosis and restoration of production services.
• Support incident postmortems and implementation of corrective actions following production issues.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers, including support for design decisions and code-quality reviews.
• Collaborate with product, UX, data, and QA team members to develop requirements, estimates, APIs, release scope, and acceptance evidence.
• Incorporate security and privacy controls directly into application code.
• Develop and maintain meaningful automated testing across the application.
• Support accessible application interfaces and established accessibility requirements.
• Maintain current technical and design documentation.
• Participate in code reviews and promote consistent, maintainable engineering practices across the development team.

Skills

Node.js/TypeScript

Express

React

APIs

PostgreSQL

Agile

Secure coding

Unit/integration tests

Code reviews

Incident recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

cloud.gov

USWDS

Section 508

HHS integrations

Job description

Missing Link Security is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support the Office of Head Start (OHS) Training and Technical Assistance Data Platform, the TTA Hub, for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The role involves building and maintaining the core TTA Hub application, guiding engineering decisions, code quality, testing, and handling production issues across backend and frontend workstreams.