Skyward IT Solutions
Software Engineer
Rockville, MD · Contract
No sponsorship$118k-$150kDetected 35 days ago
PythonDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleCI/CDJenkinsDevOpsRESTMachine LearningNLPLLMsCybersecurityAgileTest AutomationCommunication
About the role
- That is, a love for people, for improvement, for human advancement through information technology.
- Integrity: We're conscientious, intentional, and empathetic.
- Please don't ask us to play another part, we're poor actors.
Responsibilities
- Build things that matter. Write effective, scalable code supporting CMS as it merges systems into one AI-driven platform - reducing manual effort, improving data accuracy, and bringing cutting-edge NLP and LLM techniques to public services.
- Containerize and ship. Package and deploy workloads with Docker (and friends) for repeatable, scalable, what-you-build-is-what-you-run environments.
- Hunt the bugs. Investigate and debug test failures throughout the lifecycle, update tests or file bugs as needed, and keep the build green and honest.
- Design with humans in mind. Work closely with human-centered design experts to build solutions that are intuitive, responsive, and personalized to each user's needs.
- Make things faster. Develop and tune back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance.
- you've actually automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
Requirements
- You've got AI chops, experience with NLP, LLMs, or ML-driven applications.
- You know CI/CD isn't a buzzword
- You know, the kind that make the whole team faster.
Nice to have
- Automate all the toil.
Skills
- 3-5 years of hands-on software engineering experience, with strong coding chops in Python (and friends).
- Containerization experience (Docker or Kubernetes) and comfort with REST APIs.
- Fluency in an agile flavor or two
- Scrum, Lean, or SAFe.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively across a busy mix of stakeholders.
Compensation
- $5,000 per year for professional development
- $600 per year for technical supplies and equipment
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 15 days of paid leave
- 7 days of sick leave
- 2 days bereavement leave
- 401K with 4% employer contribution (and no vesting period)
- Up to 4 weeks of paid paternity and maternity leave
- $2,000 referral bonus
- Life and disability insurance
- Bonus unicorn points if you've worked inside a FISMA boundary or supported an ATO/cATO effort.
- Legal Shield and ID Shield Voluntary Benefits
- Build and maintain automated test suites - unit, integration, regression - wired straight into the pipeline as quality gates, and provide real test-coverage analysis instead of crossed fingers.
Company info
- We are Skyward.
- We are a people-centered business with a desire to serve others.
- We are diverse and unified; creative and collaborative; a collection of complementary, not competing talents.
- And though on the surface we remain relaxed, beneath, a torrent of energy links us to our civic tech mission.
- We stand by our values, and we won't compromise on any of them.
- For us, life isn't what happens outside of work.
- Work happens inside of life and our culture erases the line often dividing the two.
- At Skyward, we're focused on hiring individuals with the right skills and passion to grow, not just checking off every box.
- What we offer you:
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance due to the nature of our work as a government contractor
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