Integrate, lead, develop, and enhance existing applications for exciting impactful missions.

Skyward is building the next generation of secure web applications for sensitive workflows. You'll be involved in all aspects of creating better applications and get to see your impact on a daily basis.

Must be a US citizen. Security Clearance strongly preferred.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have 5+ years of experience designing and delivering high quality web applications.

• Build analytics or ETL pipelines that ingest data from heterogeneous source;

• Develop backend code which efficiently and effectively interfaces with front end code to transact;

• Develop extensible software solutions using Typescript, Python, Java, Go etc.;

• Have experience with event streaming architectures and associated tools (e.g. Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, SQS, service meshes, etc);

• Work with event-driven data analytics and associated tools (e.g. ELK, beats, GraphQL, etc);

• Create and deploy Helm charts to K8s;

• Be comfortable operating in environments subject to regulatory, compliance, and risk-based security requirements;

• Experience using CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, Sonarqube, ArgoCD, etc) to improve code quality and efficiently deploy applications;

• Develop robust, portable & interoperable solutions to difficult problems;

• Have prior experience as an architect with hands on, leadership, and mentoring experience;

• Mentor, teach, and coach junior engineers to improve their engineering skills and responsibilities;

• Be willing to participate in weekly agile scrum events;

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, to work with development teams, technical staff, and project leads in order to rapidly resolve technical issues;

• Maintain a posture of responsibility for the success of application in deployed state;

• Monitor, debug, and solve issues in a production environment;

• Be eager to learn new technologies and expand roles and responsibilities.

At Skyward Federal we make a difference by challenging the status quo. We solve problems others aren't or can't. Our solutions provide meaningful impact to ongoing missions. Skyward is a start-up so expect to be challenged not only by the gnarly problems we take on as a company, but with tasks outside this job description and outside your current skill set.

Skyward knows that our special sauce is our people and we pride ourselves on creating a culture that allows individuals and teams to contribute and shine. As a team we value a willingness to tackle challenging and ambitious projects through collaboration, finding a way to “yes”, and strong communication. Another thing about our team, we like to drink lots of coffee.

Skyward offers competitive benefits:

• 10% 401K match–fully vested on day one;
• 100% company-paid premiums for comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents;
• 100% company-paid premiums for short and long term disability insurance;
• 100% company-paid life insurance policy;
• 4 weeks of paid time off accrued annually;
• 11 federal holidays, plus a bonus “Skyward Holiday” here and there;
• Unlimited sick leave events–paid time off is for travel, projects, fun, not being miserable;
• Annual educational and training budget;
• Awesome equipment (MacBook Pro and more), plus a home office set-up budget;
• Our most popular benefit is a monthly coffee budget–we weren't exaggerating when we said we drink lots of coffee.

Office hours are flexible with most work performed remotely with a geographically dispersed team. However, this position is based in Boston, MA as it will need to collaborate in person as needed. Some travel may be required on an as needed basis. Must be a US citizen. Security Clearance strongly preferred.