Software Engineer (Backend-Java)

Nava; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nava, a consultancy and public benefit corporation, is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, and deliver scalable services for government clients. You’ll work on cross-functional teams to modernize legacy platforms, ensuring accessibility, security, and reliability while maintaining a user-centered focus.

You’ll collaborate with government partners and contractors, ship features in an agile setting, and contribute to post-production support and optimization.

Qualifications

• Requires at least 5 years in an agile, multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Design, review, and build well-crafted software with fellow Nava engineers.
• Collaborate with government partners and contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems.
• Work in an agile environment to ship features meeting user needs.
• Create tools to automate development, testing, and production workflows.
• Write and review technical documentation and perform code reviews.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support production systems.
• Take part in hiring activities as needed.

Skills

5+ years Agile experience

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. This role is open for multiple levels and titles. Final title/compensation will be determined by how your interview weighs against our core competencies during your interview cycle. This position is contingent based on contract award.

Position summary

You will work on cross-functional teams to build scalable systems for our government – designing, implementing, and delivering services that millions of Americans depend on. You care deeply about working on technology that improves people’s lives, but don’t think technology is always the answer. You are passionate about building large-scale systems that are inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure, and you'll help set high standards for our teams in terms of simplicity, empathy, and accessibility. The Software Engineer role will be responsible for developing end to end systems for one of Nava’s major government partners. The objective is to modernize an existing legacy enterprise platform to enable users to have more access to the programs and services that they need. This individual will be involved in everything, from strategy and planning through to post-production testing and support.

What you’ll do

• Working with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software
• Collaborate with government partners and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems
• Working in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs
• Creating tools and processes to automate our development, testing, and production workflows
• Writing and reviewing technical documentation, performing code reviews
• Participating in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur
• Taking part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed

Required skills

At least 5 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team