Staff Platform Engineer

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FocusCivic tech
We are a fully remote company, and all employees must be based in the continental U.S.Full-TimeStaff
Salary$165K - $180K; $165K – $180K • $0 – $55K Bonus
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Job Details

Experience
10+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling using TypeScript and Python.
Required Skills
PythonTypeScriptReactCI/CDRESTful APIsTerraformPlaywright

Requirements

  • Bring 10+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling with TypeScript and Python.
  • Have practical experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  • Have experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
  • Have designed complex systems that interact with external services, databases, and third-party APIs.
  • Have experience working on cross-functional agile teams and estimating complex engineering tasks.
  • Be able to communicate technical updates directly to client stakeholders.
  • Have strong diagnostic skills for troubleshooting complex, distributed, multi-vendor application failures and microservices.
  • Bring prior experience with federal government digital service projects or civic tech programs.
  • Be familiar with AWS GovCloud environments, FedRAMP compliance standards, and observability tooling.
  • Have experience implementing synthetic test-data generators or complex mock-data services for enterprise integrations.
  • Be able to meet applicable government contract requirements; a background check or security clearance may apply depending on the contract.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and maintain end-to-end automated UI and API test suites using Playwright and TypeScript.
  • Develop automated data-generation tools and synthetic applicant profile generators using Python and REST APIs.
  • Build React and TypeScript tools for vendor teams and government stakeholders to generate test scenarios and monitor pipeline status.
  • Construct, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, quality gates, and feature-driven promotion practices.
  • Create reusable engineering patterns, self-service platform capabilities, CLI utilities, and starter kits.
  • Review code, mentor engineers, and help establish team development patterns and code quality standards.
  • Work with client leads and external vendor teams on developer self-service, release gatekeeping, and troubleshooting.
  • Support cloud infrastructure updates using Terraform and embed automated security scanning.
  • Navigate continuous compliance processes in a FedRAMP/Public Trust environment.
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