Technical Lead (Senior/Staff Software Engineer)
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FocusCivic tech
All employees must be based in the continental U.S.Full-TimeLead
Salary$135K - $170K; $135K – $170K • $0 – $50K Bonus
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Job Details
- Experience
- 3+ years of leading software teams and/or managing personnel; 5+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling using TypeScript and Python.
- Required Skills
- PythonTypeScriptReactCI/CDRESTful APIsTerraformDatadogPlaywright
Requirements
- Have 3+ years of experience leading software teams and/or managing personnel.
- Have 5+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling using TypeScript and Python.
- Have practical experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Have experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Have experience designing complex systems that integrate external services, databases, and third-party APIs.
- Have experience on cross-functional agile teams, estimating complex engineering tasks, and communicating technical updates to client stakeholders.
- Have diagnostic skills for troubleshooting distributed, multi-vendor application failures and microservices.
- Have prior experience with federal government digital service projects or civic tech programs.
- Be familiar with AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP compliance standards, and observability tools such as DataDog.
- Have experience implementing synthetic test-data generators or complex mock-data services for enterprise integrations.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of seven engineers in supporting the project through delegation or direct action.
- Architect, build, and maintain end-to-end automated UI and API test suites using Playwright and TypeScript.
- Build Python tools and synthetic applicant profile generators using REST APIs to automate test-data setup.
- Develop React and TypeScript interfaces for vendor teams and government stakeholders to create test scenarios and monitor pipeline status.
- Construct, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for quality gates and feature-driven promotion.
- Lead sprint triage and identify whether system failures stem from cloud changes, vendor releases, or test configurations.
- Review code, mentor engineers, and establish team development patterns and quality standards.
- Coordinate technical troubleshooting with client leads and external vendor teams.
- Support cloud infrastructure updates using Terraform, automated security scanning, and continuous compliance processes.
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