Junior Engineer
Agile Six
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $112,750 per year
Job Level
Junior
Tech Stack
CypressJavaScriptJenkinsReactTypeScript
About the role
- Generate PDFs using the VA PDFFill library within vets‑api, ensuring fidelity to source data.
- Package PDF, JSON, and metadata into CMP‑compliant envelopes for downstream routing.
- Integrate with DocuSign Government and other third‑party PDF signing/routing tools.
- Submit packets to the Benefits Intake API and validate successful routing to VBMS/Caseflow.
- Implement polling and idempotent retries/backoff to query status and guarantee delivery.
- Diagnose & troubleshoot data/document routing errors with external partner teams.
- Enforce PII retention policies (ephemeral storage), compute MD5/SHA‑256 checksums for audit, and manage secrets securely.
- Integrate or configure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) for vets‑api components; add back‑end monitoring tools as needed.
- Ensure compliance with VA security requirements (FedRAMP, NIST 800‑53).
- Automate integration & performance tests to verify reliability at scale.
- Build dashboards & alerts keyed on GUIDs to surface latency, failure modes, and throughput metrics.
Requirements
- 3+ years experience as a software engineer with a focus on front-end frameworks
- Recent experience with React and JavaScript/TypeScript.
- At least one year of experience building products and services within the VA.gov ecosystem, ideally involving digital forms.
- Expertise with the VA Design System.
- Demonstrated self‑management and ownership of your work.
- Demonstrated history of bringing a combination of initiative, pragmatism, creativity and tenacity to solve hard problems.
- Ability to work independently on high complexity tasks, and to collaborate as it makes sense for the problem and the work.
- Deep understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1, Section 508) and automated testing tools (Cypress, Playwright, axe, pa11y).
- Thrive in Agile, self‑organizing environments focused on team success.
- Pragmatic decision‑making skills, bias for action, and a strong sense of experimentation.
- Experience working in a cross-functional team, including research, design, engineering, and product.
- Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 out of the last 5 years.
- Some of our clients may request or require travel from time to time. If this is a concern for you, we encourage you to apply and discuss it with us at your initial interview.
Benefits
- Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
- Competitive and equitable salary (equal pay for equal work)
- Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
- 401K matching
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
- Employer paid life insurance
- Self-managed and generous paid time off
- Paid federal holidays and two floating holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Self-managed professional development spending
- Self-managed wellness days
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactPDF generationJSON packagingCI/CD pipelinesAutomated testingAccessibility standardsMD5 checksumSHA-256 checksum
Soft skills
self-managementinitiativecreativitytenacitycollaborationpragmatic decision-makingindependenceproblem-solvingteam successbias for action