NavaNA

Software Engineer (Backend-Java)

Nava PBC is a public benefit corporation that partners with government agencies to build transformative digital services, making public benefits simple, effective, and accessible to all. They emerged from the effort to fix HealthCare.gov and now work on a variety of complex modernization projects for federal, state, and local governments.

Nava

Employee count: 501-1000

United States only
You will work on cross-functional teams to build scalable systems for our government -- designing, implementing, and delivering services that millions of Americans depend on. You care deeply about working on technology that improves people’s lives, but don’t think technology is always the answer. You are passionate about building large-scale systems that are inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure, and you'll help set high standards for our teams in terms of simplicity, empathy, and accessibility.The Software Engineer role will be responsible for developing end to end systems for one of Nava's major government partners. The objective is to modernize an existing legacy enterprise platform to improve its public facing processes, and experiences which will enable users to have more access to the programs and services that they need, in real-time, in a more user friendly and uncomplicated way. This individual will be involved in everything, from strategy, and planning through to post production testing, and support.

What you'll do

  • Working with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software
  • Collaborate with government partners and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems
  • Working in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs
  • Creating tools and processes to automate our development, testing, and production workflows
  • Writing and reviewing technical documentation, performing code reviews
  • Participating in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur
  • Taking part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed

Required skills

  • Open to Backend engineers
  • At least 5 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale on Cloud platforms
  • Experience developing applications and APIs Java, Spring Boot, Go, OpenAPI,‬ Fargate, Lambda
  • Experience utilizing AWS cloud native services and data engineering
  • Current and/or prior experience developing API endpoints with Java or Go
  • Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate in working code
  • Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented.Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short term vs. long term benefits
  • An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise

Desired skills

  • Experience using Apache Spark and Parquet for data engineering
  • Experience with Node.js and Next.js (Javascript)

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At Nava PBC, we are at the forefront of revolutionizing how government serves its people through groundbreaking technology and human-centered design. Our journey began with the pivotal effort to rescue and rebuild HealthCare.gov after its challenging launch in 2013. This experience solidified our mission: to make public services simple, effective, and accessible to all. Since our incorporation as a public benefit corporation in 2015, Nava has been entrusted by federal, state, and local government agencies across the United States to tackle some of the most complex and highly scrutinized technology modernization efforts. We guide agencies constrained by legacy systems toward a future defined by sharp user experiences, all built upon secure, reliable, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure. Our approach is rooted in a deep understanding of user needs, which we achieve through comprehensive research and an iterative development process. This ensures that the digital services we build are not only technologically advanced but also intuitive and genuinely helpful to the millions of Americans who rely on them.

Our commitment to innovation extends beyond simply fixing broken systems; we aim to build lasting solutions that enhance the adaptability and responsiveness of public programs in an ever-evolving world. We have a proven track record of delivering impactful results, having supported the disbursement of over three billion in payments and saved over 500,000 hours of manual labor for civil servants. Key projects include modernizing federal grant-making with the Department of Health and Human Services, improving tools for Veterans to submit benefits claims with the Department of Veterans Affairs, and helping the Commonwealth of Massachusetts adapt its Paid Family and Medical Leave program to new legislation through agile development. We also leverage emerging technologies, such as generative AI, to pilot new tools that can further streamline and improve public benefit programs. At Nava, we believe that by strengthening the digital foundations of critical government programs, we can restore trust between people and public institutions, ensuring that services are not just delivered, but are delivered with empathy and efficiency.

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401k salary match

4% 401k salary match.

Commuter benefits

Commuter benefits available.

Home office funding

Funding for home office setup.

Mental health support

Access to mental health support.

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