Senior Software Engineer

Coforma•North Bethesda, MD

2d•$150,236 - $169,147•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a thoughtful, collaborative Senior Software Engineer to join our growing, distributed team at Coforma. Our Software Engineers enjoy tackling complex problems and working with other members of our cross-disciplinary teams to deliver elegant products across a modern technology stack. They are skilled experts across the stack, building accessible applications that put people first with code that is clean, maintainable, well-documented, and well-tested. In this role, you'll work closely with internal colleagues and external counterparts, collaborating through development and issue resolution by evaluating trade-offs and presenting options for different approaches to clients and project stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a knack for translating and communicating complex technical concepts in everyday terms to non-technical audiences. Your passion for articulating how to execute in the pursuit of doing what’s right is a feature, not a bug, and will ensure that the software we build makes a positive impact on peoples’ lives. Join us and help create human-centered solutions that we can be proud to say we worked on together. If you’re passionate about improving lives through digital products and services, Coforma is a great company for you.

Requirements

A multifaceted engineer with a minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience, preferably within SaaS companies operating in highly regulated environments
A skilled communicator (verbal, written, and/or with the use of assistive tech) with the ability to effectively translate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences, including client and project stakeholders
A full-time resident of the contiguous United States (must be legally authorized to work in the US now and in the future without sponsorship)
Able to pass a Public Trust background check and any applicable background and/or security checks related to project requirements
The building blocks of the web, including how to write accessible semantic HTML and how to write clean CSS that conforms to design systems
Proven experience with CMS migrations (specifically Drupal 11 migration expertise), GraphQL schema modeling, and rich-text HTML conversion
Proficiency in SAST/DAST scanning and vulnerability remediation
Strong frontend and backend development skills (specifically TypeScript and Lambda architecture)
Experience with CloudFormation, cost monitoring, and CI/CD pipeline optimization
Knowledge and understanding of WCAG 2.2 AA standards and experience implementing automated accessibility testing
Knowledge and understanding of Agile and Scrum development methodologies
Will prioritize and maintain access to strong, reliable internet for the remote nature of our work, except when on vacation or holiday.
Will keep the highest security practices to ensure privacy and security of Coforma and client information, given the nature of our work, even when on vacation.
On request and with advanced notice, will attend in-person events such as meetings, workshops, and trainings as assigned for projects that require it.
Will represent Coforma professionally and sincerely, modeling our Company Values in all interactions.

Nice To Haves

Frameworks, libraries, and runtimes including React, Rails, Node, Next, Angular, and/or Spring
Testing frameworks (Jest, Testing Library, Mocha, Playwright, and/or Cypress)
APIs and databases (SQL, Dynamo, Mongo, and/or Postgres)
Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure tools (Terraform, Serverless, Amazon CDK, etc.)
Prior experience developing software in remote, distributed environments
Prior experience working in digital services, government, or government contracting

Responsibilities

Write and review code, ensuring high standards of quality, maintainability, and test coverage
Solve problems across the tech stack alongside other engineers and cross-functional team members, building new systems and improving existing ones
Engage with coworkers across disciplines according to Agile and Scrum methodologies, including participating in planning, breaking down requirements into tasks, refinement and estimation, etc.
Articulate the risks, benefits, and trade-offs associated with different technical approaches to stakeholders using your influence to build consensus and keep work moving forward
Mentor junior engineers on software development, engineering, and accessibility best practices
Participate in the hiring and onboarding process as needed
Meet the client team and the people who use what you're building, including content editors
Get oriented on observability tooling and triage a real production alert
Learn the delivery workflow — CI/CD pipeline, branching and code review norms, and the path to production
Build working knowledge of our accessibility standard (WCAG 2.2 AA) and the automated checks that enforce it in CI
Get a local development environment running across the frontend, API, and database; run the test suite and reproduce a bug locally
Ship your first production changes: well-scoped bug fixes, dependency and vulnerability remediation, or contained accessibility defects
Begin writing your own acceptance and validation criteria as opposed to waiting for a checklist
Take end-to-end ownership of a feature including design, implementation, testing, and release
Deliver a defined phase of an active workstream, with the measurement in place to know whether it worked
Take a production issue from alert to root cause to merged fix without hand-holding
Review teammates' pull requests with substance, catching accessibility and data-integrity issues
Contribute at least one durable improvement to the test suite or CI pipeline
Actively engage with client stakeholders as an Engineering representative from Coforma in at least one working session
Lead a workstream phase: sequencing, risk calls, and the go/no-go recommendation for your piece
Own deployment and rollback for your own work, including knowing the criteria to revert
Produce a written technical recommendation on an open architecture question, with tradeoffs and a clear position
Debug across system boundaries, including services outside your primary language and stack
Contribute to and improve onboarding documentation for future engineers joining the team