Software Engineer - Mobile

Verdance•Washington, DC

52d•$145,000 - $173,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Verdance and help improve government digital services! About the role You’ll join a growing company working with a variety of government agencies to build high-quality digital public services. Your initial project placement will be with a Congressional customer, working on a mobile app & backend that staff, journalists, and members of the public use to track Congressional activity in real time. This role will require some on-site availability as needed (likely an average of 1x a week), so living within a reasonable commute of the Capitol area is a must. This role is contingent on a final government project award decision— which is expected in January.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience
Substantial mobile development experience, ideally in the Flutter/Dart environment
Substantial backend engineering experience
Strong comfort with JavaScript or Python, and the ability to pick up new tools and languages as needed
Enthusiasm to learn the learn the ins and outs of the Congressional data environment
Understanding of best practices resilience and fault-tolerance data integrations
Work authorization in the US
All work must take place in the continental US
Team members must have lived in the US for 3 out of the past 5 years
You'll have to pass a public trust government background investigation

Nice To Haves

A civic tech background
Enough infrastructure experience to be comfortable scrubbing in on DevOps tasks where needed
Understanding of unit testing, CI/CD, and cloud services
Experience writing efficient, maintainable code
Desire to learn about government and help make it better
Desire to work at a small company focused on thoughtful growth
Professionalism, curiosity, and humility