Software Engineer - Mobile

Join Verdance and help improve government digital services!About the roleYou’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.

Here are our must-have priorities for this role:

• 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 learn the ins and outs of the Congressional data environment

• Understanding of best practices resilience and fault-tolerance data integrations

Here’s what we hope you bring:

• A civic tech background

• Enough infrastructure experience to be comfortable scrubbing in on DevOps 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

Here’s what we’re offering in return:

• $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

Some administrative requirements of our government contracts:

• 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

A little more about usVerdance 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.