Friends From The City

Friends From The City provides product management, content strategy, user research, product design, and front-end engineering services.

11-50 employees

Product Design

Private Company

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Fully Remote

This company is fully distributed with team members working remotely.

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Remote, United States onlyContractPublic sector technologyPosted

Senior Backend Software Engineer / Technical Lead - Public Sector

Architect and develop production-grade REST APIs and backend services.
Integrate services with existing systems, vendors, and external data sources.
Translate complex business and policy rules into maintainable application logic.
Design SQL data models and integration patterns.
Establish API contracts, versioning, error handling, retries, and resiliency patterns.
Implement automated unit, integration, end-to-end, and load testing.
Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and production observability.
Optimize API performance and reliability under production load.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code; participate in troubleshooting and incident response.
Conduct code reviews, guide engineers, and produce API specifications, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and technical documentation.

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About Friends From The City

Friends From The City builds digital services that truly serve people. You will join a mission-driven team, transforming how citizens interact with government agencies. We pioneer user-centered design, meticulous research, and robust software development. Our work directly impacts over 2 million veterans, simplifies debt resolution for 30,000, and supports 570,000 clinicians. You will help craft accessible, intuitive platforms for federal and state partners like the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and CMS.gov. We address complex institutional challenges with practical, reliable solutions. Your contributions will make essential public services stable, secure, and genuinely easy to use.

How We Work

You will thrive in a fully remote environment, working with colleagues across diverse disciplines. We foster a wellness-first culture, respecting boundaries and encouraging work-life balance. Our teams embrace kindness, continuous learning, and transparency in every project. You will experience an inclusive environment that values every perspective. We actively support remote work, offering coworking memberships if you need them. This is a space where creativity, curiosity, and authentic self-expression are celebrated daily.

Engineering at Friends From The City

As an engineer here, you will solve critical infrastructure challenges for public sector digital services. We ensure essential applications are stable, secure, and easy to maintain at scale. Your work will involve designing and implementing Azure cloud infrastructure, managing network integrations, and ensuring hybrid on-prem connectivity. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, integrated with Azure. Infrastructure as code (Terraform/OpenTofu) is central to our approach. You will implement robust security controls, including AD/RBAC, encryption, and firewall configurations. This role offers the unique opportunity to support compliance processes like System Security Plans (SSPs). We value systems thinkers who bring strong infrastructure skills and a passion for mission-driven work.

Why Join Us

Shape digital public services for millions of citizens.
Work fully remotely with flexible schedules and wellness support.
Receive an annual professional development stipend for continuous growth.
Collaborate with a diverse team passionate about public impact.
Build resilient, secure infrastructure for critical government platforms.

Benefits & Perks

Competitive salary based on experience and market benchmarks.
401(k) with company match.
18 days of PTO, 11 paid federal holidays, and 5 wellness days.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Annual Professional Development Stipend for learning.
Life insurance and short-term disability coverage.

Tech Stack

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