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 Software Engineer to join a collaborative team working with the Department of Veterans Affairs to help expedite the delivery benefits to Veterans. By delivering high quality, functional software informed by user feedback and research, our team will increase access to health care, directly impacting and improving the lives of Veterans.

The successful candidate will be designing and developing web services and other components using message brokers (RabbitMQ) within an open source project and ecosystem. We are searching for someone who embraces open source software and an open ethos regarding software development. As a part of our team, you can expect to work on important problems that have a lasting impact on millions of users and make a difference in our government!

Responsibilities

• Contribute as part of a cross functional Agile team to build a large, scalable web application in an open source ecosystem
• Write components and services using software development principles and best practices
• Design and build software components with an eye towards modular, extensible, and scalable design
• Provide guidance and informal leadership to other teammates through code reviews, pair coding, mentorship, etc.
• Leverage emerging technologies and practices around DevOps, cloud services, AI, automation tools, etc. where appropriate in the course of daily work to improve efficiency and/or quality
• Demonstrate strong communication and team collaboration skills
• Write automated unit tests and integration tests, and assist in manual testing as needed
• Contribute to software design through the development and communication of solutions, as well as build consensus through diagrams and other forms of presentation
• Work with a Product Owner to ensure that work is accurately described and appropriately prioritized, including providing input into product roadmaps, product and sprint backlogs, and user stories
• Support the practice of engineering within the larger company as needed through activities such as:
  • Assisting in outreach, recruitment, and hiring efforts
  • Occasionally participating in or otherwise supporting business development efforts, including code or design challenges, writing or reviewing proposal responses, etc.
  • Participating in communities of practice

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of production experience with a variety of programming languages, including Java and Python
• Demonstrated experience with Spring and Gradle (or a similar open source build automation tool)
• Expert-level understanding of common design patterns and software development principles, and how to apply these effectively in day-to-day software development
• Demonstrated expertise in at least one area of the software stack and/or language/platform, coupled with a broad understanding of the software landscape (T-Shaped expertise)
• Experience working on an Agile team, delivering on an agile cadence, and demonstrating an Agile mindset.
• Ability to work independently on high complexity tasks
• Experience in an open-source, collaborative development environment
• Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 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

Additional desired qualifications

• Experience with Ruby
• Experience with Apache Camel
• Experience with PostgresDB and Redis
• Experience with pub/sub systems, messaging brokers such as RabbitMQ / Kafka
• Experience working with GitHub or other git repositories
• Experience developing in the AWS cloud
• Experience with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC platforms
• Experience working in or with government agencies, especially the VA
• Previously contributed to at least one open source project
• U.S. Veteran

Sixer Salary and Benefits

To promote equal pay for equal work, we publish salary ranges for each position.

The salary for this position is $141,387-$148,638

Our benefits are designed to reinforce our core values of Wholeness, Self Management and Inclusion. The following benefits are all available to all employees, but you will be expected to largely manage them yourself. 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), 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.

If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation in applying for any of these positions, please reach out to careers@agile6.com. We want to ensure you have the ability to apply for any position at Agile Six.

Please read and respond to the application questions carefully. Interviews are conducted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.

About SecurityScorecard:

SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, with over 12 million companies continuously rated, operating in 64 countries. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh and funded by world-class investors, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 25,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. 

Headquartered in New York City, our culture has been recognized by Inc Magazine as a "Best Workplace,” by Crain’s NY as a "Best Places to Work in NYC," and as one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in New York for two years in a row. Most recently, SecurityScorecard was named to Fast Company’s annual list of theWorld’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023and to the Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces in 2023 award recognizing “forward-thinking employers for their unwavering commitment to employee engagement.”  SecurityScorecard is proud to be funded by world-class investors including Silver Lake Waterman, Moody’s, Sequoia Capital, GV and Riverwood Capital.

About the Team:

The Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) team collects signals and data on a massive scale translating them into actionable intelligence that helps drive SecurityScorecard’s flagship security ratings and Attack Surface Intelligence products. This team develops scalable distributed systems to collect data at scale from the Internet, dark web, clear web, telegram/discord and other content. This team partners with the Threat Research & Insights team and other parts of the organization to understand the requirements that define what goes into new signals. Come be part of an exciting team that is building the next generation of threat intelligence.

About the Role:

This contractor role focuses on the design and development of systems dedicated to distributed data collection and Internet scanning. Responsibilities include overseeing the management of collected data feeds, which are integrated into SecurityScorecard's processing pipeline and scoring mechanisms to enhance the Ratings Platform. A central responsibility of this role is enhancing and expanding the capabilities of web crawling and data collection systems. This includes scaling these systems to handle higher frequencies of web scans and integrating extensive datasets from millions of companies into the Ratings Platform. Moreover, the position is focused on pioneering and refining techniques for efficiently operationalizing the gathering of comprehensive web-based and Internet-wide data and threat intelligence.  This is a remote role located in Canada, LATAM or US only.

Please note that this is a 9-12 month contract position.  

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years experience with low-level languages (e.g. Go, C, C++)
• 3+ years of experience with Scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby)
• Experience with SQL (e.g. Postgres)
• Knowledge of Selenium, Scrapy or other web crawling mechanisms 
• Experience with Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka
• Experience withmessage queues (e.g. RabbitMQ, SQS)
• 3+ years of experience with building distributed systems
• Experience building Restful API's from scratch.
• Working knowledge in one or more of the following: Networking protocols, Network based scanning (nmap, zmap, nessus, masscan, etc), web crawling

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with software design principles, and test-driven development
• Strong experience with Apache Kafka
• Comfortable working as part of a distributed team
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Experience with Internet scanning (NMAP, masscan, ZMAP, etc)
• Experience building web-crawlers and or data crawlers at-scale
• Ability to do independent research
• Ability to make data driven decisions

Benefits:

SecurityScorecard is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and embraces diversity. We believe that our team is strengthened through hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds, skill sets, ideas, and perspectives. We make hiring decisions based on merit and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex or gender (including pregnancy) gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, disability status or any other protected category in accordance with applicable law. 

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact talentacquisitionoperations@securityscorecard.io.

Any information you submit to SecurityScorecard as part of your application will be processed in accordance with the Company’s privacy policy and applicable law. 

SecurityScorecard does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies.  Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. 

About the job:

We're looking for an energetic and experienced Senior Technical Program Managerto join our Data Platform Engineering team. Our team is responsible for enabling H&H business (Product, Analytics, Operations, Finance, Data Science, Machine Learning, Customer Experience, Engineering) by providing a platform with a rich set of data and tools to leverage. 

As a senior TPM within the Data Platform team, you’ll work closely with our Product and Engineering teams to understand their roadmaps, architecture, and data. You’ll also work with our consumers of the data platform to better understand their data needs. You’ll take your passion for working with people and leveraging your technical skills to move quickly, efficiently, and decisively to connect the dots and help our team deliver.

You Will:

• Build strong cross-functional relationships to understand our product data and the needs/uses of data
• Create requirements and technical specifications
• Track and manage project risks, dependencies, status, and deliverable timelines
• Help drive Data Platform strategies
• Work with stakeholders to understand requirements and negotiate solutions and timelines
• Communicate and make sure the right people have the correct information in time
• Work within our Data Platform Engineering team to help build out ticketed work and provide details to translate requirements and benefits to that work
• Ensure the highest business value is being delivered to our stakeholders
• Establish mechanisms to optimize team effectiveness
• Lead prioritization meetings and status meetings with stakeholders at a regular cadence
• Collaborate with other technical program managers to highlight dependencies with different domains
• You will have a bias for action, a sense of urgency, and attention to detail that makes you someone your team can instinctively trust and rally behind
• Drive continuous process improvements and best practices to create a robust, predictable, priority-driven culture
• Collaborate with legal to ensure data privacy and compliance are followed and implemented
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, and backlog grooming sessions

You Have:

• Minimum of 8+ years experience as a data-oriented Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, or Lead capacity
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or relevant years of work experience
• Experience working with Data Platform Engineering teams to ship scalable data products and technical roadmaps
• Previous experience building data platforms on the cloud using Databricks or Snowflake
• Proficiency in Jira or other project management tools
• Knowledge of modern data stacks like Airflow, Databricks, Google BigQuery, dbt, Fivetran
• Ability to understand different data domains and technical requirements
• Experience collaborating with different stakeholders such as Analytics, ML, Finance, Product, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Experience teams
• Solid understanding of data pipelines
• Knowledge of SQL to independently investigate and test datasets, perform data validation, sketch solutions, and create basic proofs of concept
• Experience working with management to define and measure KPIs and other operating metrics
• Extensive experience working on Data Security and Data Governance initiatives
• A Foundational understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Understanding of SDLC and Agile frameworks
• Strong project management skills with attention to detail and experience in managing multiple projects and meeting ongoing and overlapping deadlines 
• Bias towards over-communication
• Team player, collaborative, and positive attitude
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Excellent writing, oral, and presentation skills
• Ability to influence without authority
• Passion for operational excellence, attention to detail, and a demonstrated ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, high-growth environmen

Nice To Have:

• Experience working in healthcare 
• Previous working experience at startups
• A basic understanding of data streaming technologies (eg, Kafka, RabbitMQ), Git, Atlan, and Terraform is a big plus 
• Working experience with BI tools like Tableau and Looker

Our Benefits (there are more but here are some highlights):

• Competitive salary & equity compensation for full-time roles
• Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental & vision, and parental leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Employee discounts on hims & hers & Apostrophe online products
• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution
• Offsite team retreats

#LI-Remote

How will this role have an impact?

This is a position in Quality Engineering responsible for implementing and driving the test strategy on a data engineering team. You will regularly work with your team and management to plan and execute effective and efficient automation and performance testing solutions to accomplish timely delivery of high-quality software products.

What will you do?

• Drive quality in a scrum team at every level of the SDLC. Championing and influencing use of core shift-left testing practices, as well as implementing behavior driven development (BDD) and test driven development (TDD)  where appropriate. 
• Design, write, and maintain automated testing for data engineering pipelines and microservices, including system, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies.
• Responsible for testing Aggregation processes, Data identification (cohort, care gaps, etc), Data ingestion and curation
• Document and perform manual testing of assigned products when necessary
• Document and report bugs or issues found for automated or manual testing
• Drive release planning and assist in troubleshooting during rollbacks or failures.
• Implement and champion a metrics driven approach to continuous improvement of software quality.
• Provide reporting and recommend improvements such as in-code coverage and defect density
• Lead efforts to research and document the root cause for output issues and identify which areas are not in sync
• Drive improvement to processes and technologies related with Quality Engineering
• Build and maintain positive relationships with customers and internal staff and other stakeholders
• Manage tasks for self and teammates to meet the assigned project dates
• Mentor more junior team members with their career and skills development.

We are looking for someone with:

• BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, and/or 3+ years equivalent experience required
• 5+ years experience with deep requirements analysis; ability to rapidly understand a business domain, a system and its dependencies, and ask questions that drive depth and breadth of quality.
• 5-7 years of experience in quality engineering and testing work; specific experience in testing data engineering applications, pipelines, and microservices
• 2-3 years of experience and Understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices
• Strong SQL experience is a must
• Experience with at least one language (Java, C#, Python), understanding and coding YAML files
• Experience with Snowflake, DBT, Databricks and Azure Datafactory
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow. We use Dagster (python based tool) in our data pipelines.
• Experience with Messaging tools such as Kafka, RabbitMQ etc
• 2-3 years of experience developing API testing frameworks using tools such as SoapUI, REST-Assured, Postman, Jmeter, preferred C# based test automation framework
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Professional demeanor, dependable, and able to maintain confidential information
• Flexible and able to successfully accept change and lead the charge
• Able to successfully interact with all levels of an organization while building rapport and trust

The base salary hiring range for this position is $92,300 to $160,800. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities.  Eligible employees may enroll in a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.  We also offer education assistance, free development courses, paid time off programs, paid holidays, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners. 

About Us:

Signify Health is helping build the healthcare system we all want to experience by transforming the home into the healthcare hub. We coordinate care holistically across individuals’ clinical, social, and behavioral needs so they can enjoy more healthy days at home. By building strong connections to primary care providers and community resources, we’re able to close critical care and social gaps, as well as manage risk for individuals who need help the most. This leads to better outcomes and a better experience for everyone involved.

Our high-performance networks are powered by more than 9,000 mobile doctors and nurses covering every county in the U.S., 3,500 healthcare providers and facilities in value-based arrangements, and hundreds of community-based organizations. Signify’s intelligent technology and decision-support services enable these resources to radically simplify care coordination for more than 1.5 million individuals each year while helping payers and providers more effectively implement value-based care programs.

To learn more about how we’re driving outcomes and making healthcare work better, please visit us at www.signifyhealth.com

Diversity and Inclusion are core values at Signify Health, and fostering a workplace culture reflective of that is critical to our continued success as an organization.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.