Senior Full-Stack Engineer

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

Mission impact 

As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will work closely with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to transform the Medicaid Drug Program (MDP) product suite. This product suite helps ensure that individuals with low-income and children in need of healthcare insurance receive affordable access to medication. The MDP product suite provides federal and state governments with critical data to negotiate better drug prices and provide transparency in drug costs to the public.

About Blue Tiger

Blue Tiger is a team of design, engineering, data, and product experts dedicated to building simple, reliable, and scalable public services. We partner with government agencies to deliver great software, applying human-centered design and software development practices in complex, regulated environments.  You’ll be a key part of our growing team of civic technologists, excited about making an impact on how government serves the public through technology.

What you’ll do

• Develop, maintain, and enhance complex software systems. 
• Write and review code ensuring high standards of quality, maintainability, re-usability, and test coverage
• 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 
• Design and optimize data models using both Postgres (relational) and DynamoDB (NoSQL) to ensure high availability and performance
• Advocate for and use modern software engineering best practices such as API-first design, continuous integration, version control, accessibility, and automated testing
• Build cloud-focused applications leveraging AWS services: specifically, Lambda, API Gateway, and Amplify
• Define infrastructure through code using CloudFormation, CDK, or SAM
• Maintain and improve deployment pipelines to ensure seamless, reliable releases
• 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

• At least five years of experience working as a full-stack software engineer on products with significant data requirements, demonstrating expertise in managing both user-facing interfaces and server-side logic
• Experience with end-to-end ownership of a technical solution
• Experience using various standards, languages, frameworks, techniques, and libraries such as HTML5, CSS3/Sass, Responsive Design, Node, React, Angular, Java SpringBoot, PostgreSQL
• Proficiency and familiarity with AWS technologies and solutions, such as Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, CloudFormation, CDK, SAM, and Amplify; also core AWS concepts such as IAM permissions and security group rules
• Proficient in database design, implementation, and management, with deep understanding of when to use SQL (Postgres) vs. NoSQL (DynamoDB) based on scale and complexity
• Solid understanding of how to deliver application architectures and code that are highly scalable, available, and performant
• Proficiency with version control systems such as GitHub, with strong familiarity with GitHub Actions for automating testing and deployment workflows and a general knowledge of CI/CD best principles for incorporating new features without breaking old ones
• Ability to author developer-friendly documentation, such as API documentation and deployment operations
• 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 SAFe/scrum/agile development methodology and environment

If you meet most of these requirements and are excited about this work, we encourage you to apply. 

The salary range for this role is $130,000 to $160,000.

We focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:

• 100% coverage of employee Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Automatic 401(k) contribution of 10% of your salary by the company, with no vesting period and no required individual contribution
• Paid time off, including 25 vacation days, 12 federal holidays, and unlimited sick leave
• Bonuses for annual performance, business development, company growth, and referrals
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Remote work environment

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.