Agile Six is a people-first, remote-work company that serves shoulder-to-shoulder with federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. We build better by putting people first. We are animated by our core values of Purpose, Wholeness, Trust, Self-Management and Inclusion. We deliver our solutions in autonomous teams of self-managed professionals (no managers here!) who genuinely care about each other and the work. We know that’s our company’s purpose – and that we can only achieve it by supporting a culture where people feel valued, self-managed, and love to come to work.
The role
Agile Six is looking for a Senior Full Stack Drupal Engineer to join a highly collaborative Agile team. Our team works with the Department of Veterans Affairs to drive improvements to the Veteran experience across their digital platform, VA.gov.
Our ideal candidate has extensive recent Drupal experience with Drupal 9 and 10 and a strong grasp of object oriented principles of PHP. We are looking for an engineer with demonstrated experience learning new tools, languages and frameworks. We tackle a wide range of challenges and regularly step outside of our comfort zones — and are looking for a candidate excited to do the same. Most importantly, we are looking for someone who wants to work on important problems that have a lasting impact on millions of users and make a difference in our government!
Our work:
VA utilizes Drupal as an API which serves data to a number of systems. This team’s mission is to provide a modernized, accessible, single source of truth about available VA locations, services, and benefits to Veterans, as well as to provide a modernized, accessible Drupal CMS user experience to Editors creating and maintaining that content.
The VA follows the U.S. Digital Services Playbook and "Default to Open", therefore project repositories are fully open source:
- https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-cms (Backend: Drupal 10 CMS)
- https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/content-build (Assembles VA.gov static pages)
- https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/vets-website (Frontend: Metalsmith + React)
- https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/vets-api (Ruby on Rails API)
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a remote cross-functional team to deliver well-performing and scalable services and components
- Grasp the overall technical landscape and offer guidance on solution direction, architecture, and tradeoffs
- Identify client needs and 'meet them where they are’ through empathy, mentorship and advice
- Mitigate technical, resource, and timeline risks
- Conduct peer code reviews, including evaluation of regression testing and test coverage, adherence to acceptance criteria, and code best practices
- Complete high-complexity tasks both independently and collaboratively as neede
- Participate in testing and QA, including writing of automated unit, system, performance, functional tests and manual testing efforts
- Support the practice of engineering within the larger company as needed
We expect the responsibilities of this position to shift and grow organically over time, in response to considerations such as the unique strengths and interests of the selected candidate and other team members and an evolving understanding of the delivery environment.
Basic qualifications
- 10+ years of full-time experience as a Software Engineer
- 4+ years of production experience with Drupal
- Experience using Composer
- Experience writing PHPUnit, Kernel, and Functional tests
- Experience working collaboratively in an Agile, cross-functional team
- Solid foundation in software engineering fundamentals and best-practices, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, CICD, and writing automated tests and testable code
- Experience working in different areas of the software stack and solving a variety of engineering problems
- Ability to adapt to new languages and technologies to solve problems
- Experience with accessibility requirements, standards, and testing tools
- Experience with Git and GitHub or other source control systems
- Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years
Additional desired qualifications
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions and their use in CI/CD workflows
- Familiarity with modern Javascript and Node.js and an ability to contribute to a Javascript codebase
- Familiarity with static site generators and other front-end frameworks (i.e. Next.js, Gatsby)
- Experience with CSS Preprocessors
- Familiarity with Section-508 and WCAG 2.1, Accessibility requirements, standards, and testing tools
- Experience working with government agencies
- You are a U.S. Veteran
Salary and Sixer Benefits
To promote equal pay for equal work, we publish salary ranges for each position.
The salary for this position is $159,839-$168,036
Our benefits are designed to reinforce our core values of Wholeness, Self Management and Inclusion. The following benefits are available to all employees. We respect that only you know what balance means for your life and season. While we offer support from coaches, we expect you to own your wholeness, show up for work whole, and go home to your family the same. You will be seen, heard and valued. We expect you to offer the same for your colleagues, be kind (not bossy), be caring (not directive) and ready to participate in a state of flow. We mean it when we say “We build better by putting people first”.
All Sixers Enjoy:
- 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 Election day off
- Paid parental leave
- Self-managed professional development spending
- Self-managed wellness days
Hiring practices
Agile Six Applications, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.
Note: We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. This role is required to work from the contiguous United States. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.
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Please read and respond to the application questions carefully. Interviews are conducted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.