Job description
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 Fullstack Engineers (multiple openings) to join a cross-functional team working with the Department of Veterans Affairs on an integrated patient portal experience on VA.gov. The goal of our team’s work is to improve Veterans’ digital experience by giving them one place to easily manage their VA health care, community care, disability benefits, and other information.
These roles will serve as individual contributors and be assigned to a designated product, potentially supporting development on adjacent product teams within the project. Fullstack engineers will partner closely with the team’s Engineering Lead to implement standards and best practices, and work closely with team members to support the development of a cohesive user experience across web and mobile platforms.
Please note, these positions are anticipated, pending contract award response.
Responsibilities
- Build accessible, performant, and scalable frontend and backend features in an open-source ecosystem using Ruby on Rails and other industry-standard languages and frameworks.
- Develop user-facing features with React ( TypeScript/JavaScript), following USWDS design patterns and VA API/FHIR standards where applicable.
- Write and maintain 100% automated test coverage (unit, integration, functional, load, and accessibility) for all delivered features.
- Integrate with VA APIs and backend services to ensure accurate, secure data rendering and discoverability via the Lighthouse API Hub.
- Support the migration and retirement of legacy systems, ensuring continuity of content and functionality.
- Contribute to full-stack development across healthcare features (e.g., secure messaging, medical records, medications) with a focus on interoperability and user-centered design.
- Monitor and triage application performance issues daily using tools like Datadog, and respond to incidents according to VA-defined severity levels.
- Prevent and resolve silent failures through robust error handling, user notification mechanisms, and backend transaction validation.
- Participate in pair programming, peer reviews, and blameless post-mortems, incorporating learnings and promoting engineering excellence.
- Continuously integrate and deploy code using VA Platform tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and reusable infrastructure components across VA.gov and VA Mobile.
- Uphold Zero Trust security principles and ensure sensitive data is never exposed in source code; deliver all non-sensitive code to open-source repositories.
- Support the Engineering Community of Practice and broader Agile Six engineering culture through knowledge‑sharing, mentoring, and participation in internal initiatives.
We expect the responsibilities of this position to shift and grow organically over time, in response to considerations such as the team’s needs and strengths, the unique strengths and interests of the selected candidate, and an evolving understanding of the delivery environment.
Basic qualifications
- 5 + years of professional engineering experience, demonstrating in‑depth knowledge in at least one front end and one back end technology stack (e.g. Ruby and React).
- 3 + years of recent experience with React and JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience experimenting with and/or utilizing AI tools and services to create and deliver software, and a strong willingness to leverage AI where appropriate to improve outcomes.
- Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar).
- Experience with measurement and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog) and a strong understanding of application observability.
- Familiarity with secure development best practices and Zero Trust principles; ability to safeguard sensitive data while working in an open‑source environment.
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Experience with React Native
- Experience leveraging AI tools and services to create and deliver software to production in a professional capacity.
- Experience with health-related services and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards.
- Professional experience delivering software for or within federal agencies, especially the VA.
- Familiarity with the VA.gov Platform, VA Mobile Platform, and Lighthouse delivery infrastructure.
- Prior contributions to open‑source projects and/or publicly shared technical documentation.
- You are a U.S. Veteran. As a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, we recognize the transition to civilian life can be tricky, and welcome and encourage Veterans to apply
At Agile Six, we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people who believe in our mission and who can contribute to our team in a variety of ways.
Salary and Sixer Benefits
To promote pay equity, we publish a salary for each position.
The salary for this position is $112,750.
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 two floating holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Self-managed professional development spending
- Self-managed wellness days
Hiring practices
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. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.
If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation in applying for any of these positions, please reach out to [email protected]. 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.
