Software Engineer - Mobile

Join Verdance and help improve government digital services!

You’ll join a growing company working with a variety of government agencies to build high‑quality digital public services. Your initial project placement will be with a Congressional customer, working on a mobile app & backend that staff, journalists, and members of the public use to track Congressional activity in real time. This role will require some on‑site availability as needed (likely an average of 1x a week), so living within a reasonable commute of the Capitol area is a must.

This role is contingent on a final government project award decision— which is expected in January.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Substantial mobile development experience, ideally in the Flutter/Dart environment
• Substantial backend engineering experience
• Strong comfort with JavaScript or Python, and the ability to pick up new tools and languages as needed
• Enthusiasm to learn the ins and outs of the Congressional data environment
• Understanding of best practices resilience and fault‑tolerance data integrations

• A civic tech background
• Enough infrastructure experience to be comfortable scrubbing in on Dev Ops tasks where needed
• Understanding of unit testing, CI/CD, and cloud services
• Experience writing efficient, maintainable code
• Desire to learn about government and help make it better
• Desire to work at a small company focused on thoughtful growth
• Professionalism, curiosity, and humility

• $145k‑$173k salary range (depending on seniority)
• 4 weeks PTO per year + federal holidays
• Insurance, including dental and vision
• 401(k) with 4% match
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Flexible work schedule
• A interview process that respects your time

• Work authorization in the US
• All work must take place in the continental US
• Team members must have lived in the US for 3 out of the past 5 years
• You’ll have to pass a public trust government background investigation

Verdance is a public interest technology firm, spun up to help government partners navigate critical technology challenges. We’re a small company with deep experience at several government agencies and offices.