Software Engineer (ruby)

About Nava

Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation working to make government services simple effective and accessible to all. Since 2013 federal state and local government agencies have trusted Nava to build transformative digital services to help people access public benefits. Meeting our mission is an opportunity to restore trust between people and public institutions. We focus on populations that are the least protected because the stakes are higher.

As a client services company we work with government agencies to improve how people apply for benefits navigate their health care and more. We bill for our time selling our expertise and problem-solving methodology to government clients. Our clients hire us to help improve their products and services so that their users and beneficiaries have a better customer experience.

These end-users—the humans who benefit from our work—are at the core of everything we do. We research beneficiaries’ needs to help our government clients better deliver on their missions providing everyone at Nava opportunities to do meaningful impactful work.

Position Summary

You will work on small teams to build scalable applications 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 full stack engineer in this role will be focused on Ruby on rails and developing end to end systems for one of Nava's major government partners. The objective is to modernize an existing legacy enterprise platform to improve its public facing processes and experiences which will enable users to have more access to the programs and services that they need in real-time in a more user friendly and uncomplicated way. 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

• Ruby Ruby on Rails JavaScript

• At least 4 years of experience of full-stack engineering contributing development initiatives in a fast paced dynamic environment in a self directed manner that required minimal supervision.

• Meaningful experience working on web-based systems both front-end and back-end

• Experience working on large-scale applications and systems

• An adaptive empathetic collaborative and positive mindset

• Ability to think holistically around engineering issues

• Knowledge of engineering fundamentals and architecture

• Expertise developing well-crafted software

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills technical and otherwise

• Experience with modern web development frameworks

• Experience designing and implementing application architectures and code that is highly scalable available and performant

• Self-directed requiring minimal supervision

• Ability to work with others on a team

• Previous experience as a software engineer

• Aptitude for giving and receiving feedback

• Experience with testing specifically automated testing

• Knowing code quality tools such as Linter

• Experience with system design such as designing systems that will be sustainable with high usage designing a front end and back end that talk to each other

Compensation range: $107k-$135k

Other requirements

All roles at Nava require the following:

●  Must be legally authorized to work in the United States and meet any other requirements for government contracts for which they are hired.

●  Candidates who are offered a job with Nava must possess work authorization that does not require sponsorship by their employer for a visa now or in the future.

●  May be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.

Perks working with Nava

● Competitive benefits: We prioritize your well-being offering highly competitive medical dental and vision benefits.

● Generous time off: Enjoy 20 days of accrued PTO 12 paid federal holidays 5 prorated floating holidays and unlimited sick leave.

● Annual discretionary bonus: Paid annually to eligible employees. When Nava does well you do well.

● Parental leave: Receive 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and weekly meal deliveries during your leave.

● Employee wellness program: Access our comprehensive Employee Wellness Program.

● Virtual doctor visits: Enjoy zero copay virtual doctor visits through UHC.

● Fertility support: Benefit from fertility support and treatment options.

● Sabbatical leave: We offer a sabbatical leave program.

● 401k contributions: We match 4% of your salary in 401k contributions.

● Flexible work arrangements: We offer flexible work arrangements to suit your needs.

● Home office setup: Receive assistance with your home office setup and a monthly phone allowance.

● Utilities reimbursement: Get a monthly partial reimbursement for utilities (where applicable).

● Learning and development: Access our comprehensive learning and development program.

● Tuition and Professional development budget: Receive a prorated annual tuition and professional development budget and a LinkedIn Learning license.

● Equity stock options: Benefit from equity stock options.

● Employee referral program: Participate in our employee referral program.

● Commuter benefits: Enjoy commuter benefits.

● Insurance coverage: Receive short and long-term disability insurance as well as life and accidental death insurance.

● Inclusive culture: Join our diverse inclusive highly collaborative and vibrant culture that supports remote work.

Location

You can work in a hybrid work arrangement from one of Nava’s offices in NYC DC or San Francisco. We also have fully remote options if you reside in one of the following states:

Alabama Arizona California Colorado DC Florida Georgia Illinois Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nevada North Carolina New Jersey New York 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.

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Nava PBC equal opportunity employer that is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race color age gender religious or political beliefs national origin or heritage marital status disability sex sexual orientation or gender identity genetic information pregnancy status as a protected veteran or any characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. Our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion not only reflects our values as a public benefit corporation but also enriches our ability to do our work. Learn more about where we are today and hope to be by 2025.

Please contact the recruiting team at [email protected] if you would like to request reasonable accommodation during the application or interviewing process.

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.