Senior Software Engineer

About this role

What You'll Do

Development & Delivery

• Work with product managers, other developers, testers, designers, and stakeholders to understand requirements and acceptance criteria, identify risks, and translate into effective outputs

• Conduct code peer reviews to ensure the quality of the codebase for React-Native and Github Actions YML code are maintained across the team

• Fulfill Engineering Lead duties when circumstances necessitate

• Ensure front end code changes are fully accessible for screen readers, voice control, and other accessibility suite compliance is followed

• Troubleshoot and debug complex software issues

Client Impact & Collaboration

• Build strong relationships with client stakeholders and serve as a trusted advisor on quality, engineering, accessibility, and risk

• Communicate engineering approaches, findings, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

• Develop a strong understanding of client needs, objectives, constraints, and priorities and align coding strategies accordingly

• Identify responsible AI-enabled approaches that can improve customer value, quality, or efficiency without compromising trust or rigor

Team & Practice Impact

• Help establish and reinforce strong software engineering practices, including code quality, technical design, testing, documentation, accessibility, security, and sustainable development workflows

• Share technical knowledge, tools, approaches, and effective AI practices with teammates to strengthen engineering capability and consistency

• Contribute to technical sprint planning and help teams make sound engineering decisions and delivery goals

• Identify and help address technical, delivery, or team challenges, proactively surfacing risks and contributing to constructive solutions

• Contribute to the evolution of MO’s engineering practices by identifying opportunities to improve methods, tools, processes, architecture, and ways of working

• Model supportive, inclusive, constructive, curious, and accountable behaviors across teams

Company & Growth Impact

• Contribute meaningfully to company initiatives, communities of practice, and other efforts that improve how MO delivers work

• Contribute engineering and technical expertise to proposals, engagement planning, solution development, and other growth activities as appropriate

• Identify opportunities to use engineering expertise, AI, automation, or emerging technologies to create scalable capabilities, improve efficiency, or strengthen MO’s offerings

• Share insights from client work and the broader industry to help MO identify new opportunities, improve our approaches, and strengthen our value proposition

What You'll Bring

• 6+ years of engineering experience, with significant experience designing, developing, and delivering complex software systems

• Experience working with the federal government, with prior VA experience preferred

• Proven delivery: track record of independently owning complex technical work, scoping projects, solving problems, and delivering high-quality software with minimal guidance

• Technical expertise: strong experience designing and implementing software using technologies such as React Native, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, AWS, Bash, GitHub Actions, and test automation suites

• Software architecture: experience designing complex software, scoping projects, and leading productive code and design reviews

• Product collaboration: experience working closely with product and design teams to understand user requirements, use cases, and technical considerations and translate them into effective software solutions

• Quality and compliance: experience incorporating accessibility, privacy, security, monitoring, and PII protection into software design and development

• Mobile development: experience with mobile application development and release processes across iOS and Android

• AI & automation: demonstrated ability to use AI and automation to improve workflows, reduce manual effort, increase quality, or improve delivery effectiveness

• Technical leadership: ability to lead and mentor engineers with empathy, provide thoughtful technical guidance, and support individual skills growth

• Client and team collaboration: strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts and work effectively across engineering, product, design, and stakeholder teams

• Growth mindset: willingness to contribute beyond assigned project work through company initiatives, knowledge sharing, practice development, and growth activities

Nice to Have

• Experience contributing to complex applications in regulated or highly controlled environments

• Experience with React Native

• Experience developing automated mobile testing frameworks or CI/CD testing workflows

• Experience using AI-enabled development tools or developing AI-assisted approaches

Perks

• A dynamic, high-trust environment with a diverse, mission-driven team

• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience

• Meaningful opportunities for career growth and learning

• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, and vision)

• 401(k) with company match

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Company-sponsored short- and long-term disability, plus life insurance

• Company-sponsored parental leave

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