• Design, develop, and maintain backend services in Python 3.11 using Django / DRF • Lead technical initiatives across payments infrastructure and integrations • Drive improvements in system reliability, observability, and operational excellence • Work closely with Product, Operations, Compliance, and external partners • Investigate production issues and identify root causes rather than temporary fixes • Improve legacy systems and reduce technical debt • Lead architectural discussions and technical decision-making • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance • Take ownership of delivery, planning, and execution of complex projects • Help grow and develop the engineering team

• Software Engineer III - Full Stack serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. • Responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. • Interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in engineering processes and practices. • Estimates and completes development tasks including coding, requirements gathering, and analysis with a little feedback and guidance from their team. • Practices technical and communication skills to improve context knowledge and mentor junior developers. • Assesses and diagnoses issues with the systems they own, prioritizing problem areas based on alignment with other practice areas. • Participates in on-call rotations with their team as necessary. • Presents on and writes about their work to both internal and external parties. • Participates in planning sessions, building an understanding of major architectures and design patterns. • Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews. • Exhibits influential skills to drive improvements in team engineering processes and practices. • Exhibits a comprehensive understanding of the business, how practices interact, and what customer problems we're solving.

• Serve as an experienced individual contributor responsible for the design, operation, and reliability of the container orchestration platform underpinning a large federal enterprise cloud platform • Help meet scope, schedule, and delivery requirements while advancing the platform's Kubernetes practices • Design, operate, and upgrade production Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS, including cluster add-ons (e.g., CoreDNS, kube-proxy, CNI) • Manage cluster lifecycle, version currency, scaling, and standardized node baselines • Engineer cluster networking, ingress, service mesh, and workload isolation across multiple environments • Harden clusters and workloads to meet security and compliance requirements • Automate cluster provisioning and configuration through infrastructure as code (Terraform) • Self-directed design of cloud infrastructure and tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and efficiency • Build reusable modules and improve the developer experience for engineers deploying to the platform • Mentor engineers and present design documents and system diagrams to stakeholders • Participate in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Role Description Software Engineer III - Full Stack serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance, and mentoring skills. With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements. You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Software Engineer III - Full Stack include: - Estimates and completes development tasks including coding, requirements gathering, and analysis with a little feedback and guidance from their team. - Practices technical and communications skills to improve context knowledge and mentor junior developers. - Assesses and diagnoses issues with the systems they own, prioritizing problem areas based on alignment with other practice areas. - Participates in on-call rotations with their team as necessary. - Presents on and writes about their work to both internal and external parties. - Participates in planning sessions, building an understanding of major architectures and design patterns. - Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews. - Exhibits influential skills to drive improvements in team engineering processes and practices. - Exhibits a comprehensive understanding of the business, how practices interact, and what customer problems we're solving. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of engineering experience. - Modernized Technology Stack: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Reactive RESTful Web Service Development with Spring WebFlux, Streams, Kafka, Redis, Oracle database, React/Next.js UI framework, Github, Kubernetes, and Docker. - Progressive experience with relevant technologies, understands roles with which they interact and how their work impacts business goals. Requirements - Prior experience with VA systems (preferred). Benefits - Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance. - Flexible PTO. - 401K with employer match. - Paid parental leave after one year of service. - Employee Assistance Program.