Software Engineer, Fullstack and Developer Experience

Agile Six is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that builds human-centered digital services in the public interest, working shoulder to shoulder with the agencies and organizations that deliver them. We are a fully remote, distributed team with a self-management model, and we care as much about how we work together as what we ship. Much of our work is open source and built on open standards.

About these openings

This posting covers one role that is open now plus some anticipated openings. The open role centers on developer experience and open standards, and it is ready to fill right away. The other openings are anticipated, pending contract award response, and may start as early as mid-July.

Applying here puts you in front of our recruiting team for all of these rather than a single role. The anticipated openings are not yet guaranteed, but we may extend contingent offers to strong candidates before the work is confirmed. That offer would depend on the award coming through, and we will be clear about where a role stands at every step so you can decide with full information.

The common thread across this work is modernizing public-interest systems and the open standards, APIs, developer tooling, and user-facing tools built on top of them. The engineering mix varies by project, so we are hiring fullstack and developer experience engineers across the mid to senior range with strength in one or more of these areas:

• Developer experience: APIs and data standards, developer tooling (SDKs, CLIs, validators, generators), automation, and public documentation
• Backend: production services, integrations, middleware, and orchestration or rules-driven logic
• DevOps and infrastructure: cloud environments, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability
• Frontend and mobile: accessible, mobile-first, and multilingual user interfaces

These openings sit across two employers. Some roles would be staffed by Agile Six, and some by our partner Intuitial, who would be the employer of record for those hires. You can read about Intuitial and what that means in the partner section at the end of this posting.

Responsibilities

The day to day depends on the role you are matched to, but across these openings you can expect to:

• Design, implement, and operate production-grade APIs, services, and shared components, applying patterns that meet scalability, security, and performance needs
• Define and maintain data standards and API contracts used to exchange data across systems and with external partners
• Build and sustain developer tooling such as SDKs, CLIs, validators, generators, and test utilities that support adoption and long-term maintainability
• Implement workflow automation and CI/CD (for example, through GitHub Actions) to enforce engineering standards and reduce manual operational work
• Stand up and maintain cloud environments, infrastructure as code, and monitoring, where the role calls for it
• Build accessible, mobile-first, and multilingual interfaces, where the role calls for it
• Own clear, usable public documentation that drives adoption of open standards and tooling
• Collaborate across disciplines to solve technical challenges, troubleshoot production issues, and communicate design decisions and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strengthen engineering practices through mentorship, code reviews, and pairing
• Use AI tools responsibly to improve the quality and efficiency of your work, while reviewing everything they produce

We expect the responsibilities of these positions to shift and grow over time, in response to the team's needs and strengths, the strengths and interests of the selected candidate, and an evolving understanding of the delivery environment.

Basic qualifications

• 4-7+ years of experience as a software engineer building and shipping production software end to end, with depth in specific areas. Required years of experience vary by position. 
• Strong experience with Python and/or TypeScript, and comfort learning new languages as the work requires
• Experience with SQL, including authoring raw queries independent of an ORM
• Experience with service-oriented or API-first architectures and integrating with the APIs of other teams
• Experience self-organizing: taking ownership of assigning and managing your own work
• Pragmatic decision making, a bias toward action, and a strong sense of experimentation and hypothesis-driven development
• A commitment to documentation and writing down institutional knowledge
• Comfort in Agile environments and a collaborative mindset, since this work involves frequent communication across teams
• Use of AI and emerging tools to improve the quality and efficiency of software delivery
• Must have lived and worked in the United States for at least 3 out of the last 5 years 
• Some clients may request occasional travel. If that is a concern, we encourage you to apply and discuss it at your initial interview.

Additional desired qualifications

• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source libraries or packages, especially published to npm or PyPI
• Development experience in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
• Experience with infrastructure as code (for example, Terraform or CloudFormation) and containers
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment systems such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• Experience with rules engines or configuration-driven eligibility and orchestration logic
• Experience building multilingual or localized interfaces, progressive web apps, or React Native
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as DataDog
• Familiarity with the U.S. Web Design System
• Experience working with government agencies or in civic technology
• You are a U.S. Veteran. As a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, we welcome and encourage Veterans to apply.

We are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Even if you do not meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply.

Salary and Benefits

As a small organization and government contractor, the roles we hire for depend on the contracts we hold and the funding available. Salaries at Agile Six are tied to predefined peer groups based on the staffing plans we sell to clients. People in the same peer group are paid within 2.5% of the peer group’s salary mean, even when their project work differs.

We post fixed, non-negotiable salaries so that you know what to expect, and to remove the bias and inequity that often show up in salary negotiations. We also periodically raise the salary of all Sixers to keep pace with market conditions.

For more information about our Pay and Equity practices, please contact our Recruitment team.

The salary for a senior-level position is $154,931. 

The salary for a mid-level position is $129,233.

Our benefits are designed to reinforce our core values of Wholeness, Self Management and Inclusion. The following benefits are available to all employees. We respect that only you know what balance means for your life and season. While we offer support from coaches, we expect you to own your wholeness, show up for work whole, and go home to your family the same. You will be seen, heard and valued. We expect you to offer the same for your colleagues, be kind (not controlling), be caring (not directive) and ready to participate in a state of flow. We mean it when we say “We build better by putting people first”.

All Sixers Enjoy:

• Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
• Competitive salary
• Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
• 401K matching
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
• Employer paid life insurance
• Self-managed and generous paid time off
• Paid federal holidays and two floating holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Self-managed professional development spending
• Self-managed wellness days

About our partner, Intuitial

Some of the anticipated openings this posting supports would be staffed by Intuitial, our partner on this work, rather than by Agile Six directly. At least two of the roles connected to this posting are expected to be Intuitial hires. If you are matched to one of those roles, Intuitial would be your employer of record, and the information in this section would apply.

Agile Six has a Mentor-Protégé Agreement with Intuitial. Together we are building a purpose-driven joint venture known as Intuitial Six that is grounded in trust, aligned in mission, and ready to deliver for Veterans and beyond. Agile Six and Intuitial run much of our recruiting together, which is why a single posting can serve roles at both organizations.

Intuitial is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and SBA 8(a) firm that shares our values and commitment to improving how government serves people through thoughtful, human-centered digital services. They are led by a team of experienced federal digital service leaders who have worked with Agile Six and other mutual partners, and they bring a culture rooted in Kindness, Grit, Growth Mindset, and Radical Candor. While the employer of record would be Intuitial, the work itself, team collaboration, and delivery expectations remain consistent with what you would expect from Agile Six.

For Intuitial-filled roles:

Compensation is aligned with Agile Six's salary structure, so a role staffed through Intuitial pays the same as the equivalent Agile Six role. Benefits provided by Intuitial include:

• 401(k) with employer matching
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
• Flexible PTO
• Paid federal holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Sick time and wellness days

Hiring practices

Agile Six and Intuitial are Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Note: 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. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation in applying for any of these positions, please reach out to [email protected]. We want to ensure you have the ability to apply for any position at Agile Six.

Please read and respond to the application questions carefully. Interviews are conducted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.