Software Engineer

Blue Tiger is looking for a full time Software Engineer to join our talented team of technologists.

Blue Tiger is a people-first, design-forward digital consultancy. We design organizations, build software, and craft experiences for the American people.

You’ll be a key part of our small, but rapidly growing team of civic technologists excited about making an impact on how government serves citizens through technology.  

Mission Impact

You will work as part of a team supporting an important healthcare mission with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The product you will support helps serve the nation’s most economically disadvantaged populations, including many with complex and costly needs for health care.

Requirements

What you’ll do:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance complex software systems
• Analyze a set of business requirements, break them into technical features and tasks and visualize how the different aspects of the system will come together through data structures, APIs, etc.
• Be a member of a cross-functional team with members including user experience professionals, product managers, engineers and other functional specialists
• Craft technical solutions across the entirety of a system, including UI development, API development and everything in between 
• Adhere to lean-agile engineering principles 
• Advocate for and use modern software engineering best practices such as API-first design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
• Analyze systems to identify technical debt, instability, unreliability, and other opportunities for improvement, and design, document, and communicate solutions
• Represent Blue Tiger's culture of delivery when interacting with government stakeholders and other contractors

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in software development in the technologies (or similar technologies) listed below
• In-depth knowledge of how to deliver application architectures and code that are highly scalable, available, and performant
• Experience using various standards, languages, frameworks, techniques, and libraries such as HTML5, CSS3/Sass, Responsive Design, WCAG, JavaScript, React, NodeJS. Experience with Kafka streams
• Expertise using version control systems such as GitHub
• Ability to author developer-friendly documentation such as API documentation and deployment operations
• Expertise with AWS and CloudFormation
• Proven ability to apply good software engineering principles and practices
• Ability to select and use the best tools for the job, particularly open-source solutions
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
• Experience working within a scrum/agile development methodology and environment

We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all interested candidates to apply. If you have more experience beyond what is detailed here, we’d be happy to take a look. If you meet most but not all of the requirements, we still want to hear from you! 

Benefits

The annual salary for this position is: $150,000 - $165,000 / year.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees.

We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

We're an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.