Senior Software Development Engineer; Remote

United States

Suitability/Public Trust

Fully remote

Information Technology

GovCIO is currently hiring for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to design, build, and deliver modern federal applications with intuitive user interfaces, AWS cloud backends, and AI-powered features. This is a hands-on senior engineering position: the majority of time is spent designing and writing production software on AWS and AI-driven systems, with additional responsibility for mentoring engineers at earlier career stages and contributing to technical direction.

Prior experience delivering software for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is required. This position will be located in the Continental United States (CONUS) and will be remote.

• Designs, architects, and codes applications using a React/Redux frontend and a Python backend built on AWS Lambda Powertools and Boto3, working with AWS services such as API Gateway, Athena, Aurora PostgreSQL, Bedrock, Cloud Formation, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cognito, DynamoDB, ECS, Event Bridge, Glue, IAM, KMS, Lambda, Open Search, RDS, S3, Sage Maker, SNS, SQS, Step Functions, Textract, and VPC.
• Builds and delivers Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) systems handling large volumes of digital and scanned documents, including classification, extraction, and validation workflows built on generative AI foundation models.
• Owns significant portions of the solution end to end, and partners with architects and other senior engineers on integrations with adjacent systems.
• Makes and documents design decisions, and is accountable for the purpose, constraints, and tradeoffs behind them.
• Designs and refines prompt and context engineering strategies, and defines how extraction results are evaluated against ground truth.
• Defines and maintains extraction schemas and data dictionaries, and keeps them aligned with downstream systems.
• Maintains and modernizes existing applications, including operational programs and procedures.
• Analyzes and specifies systems factors, including input and output requirements, information flow, hardware and software requirements, and alternative methods of problem resolution, and recommends the approach.
• Identifies, prioritizes, and drives down technical debt, including dependency upgrades and adoption of new platform capabilities.
• Implements and upholds a rigorous testing approach across unit, integration, and performance testing, and uses cloud-native monitoring and logging to diagnose production behavior.
• Implements quality assurance practices for AI-based extraction, including ground truth management, regression testing, and drift detection.
• Evaluates and recommends model approaches across managed foundation models, vision language models, and self-hosted or fine-tuned open-weight models on Amazon Sage Maker.
• Participates substantively in code reviews as a regular reviewer.
• Authors and maintains design documentation, program documentation, operations documentation, runbooks, and user guides.
• Designs and enforces controls protecting private personal and health information (PII/PHI) across document intake, extraction, and storage.
• Contributes to a cross-team center of excellence for AI-assisted engineering, including runbooks, reusable skills and prompt assets, shared tooling, and engineering processes adopted by other teams.
• Uses agentic AI coding tools such as Claude Code with a specification-driven approach, and helps establish review and verification expectations for generated code.
• Mentors junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, code review, and coaching, and guides their certification and learning paths.
• Partners with database and cloud engineers on integration and migration efforts.
• Works within and helps lead a multi-disciplined team including architects, human-centered designers, frontend specialists, Dev Ops engineers, and other software engineers.
• Works with Product Owners and Scrum Teams on requirements decomposition, backlog refinement, estimation, and breakdown of user stories and tasks.
• Troubleshoots complex issues that span systems and teams, and communicates status and risk to stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s Degree with 8 - 12 years of relevant experience, or commensurate experience.
• VA experience required. Prior hands-on experience delivering software for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
• Clearance Required:
  
  Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust / VA Tier 2 background investigation.
• Demonstrated Ability to work…