<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Nava</strong></h2> <div>Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation working to make government services simple and effective. Since 2015, federal, state, and local agencies have trusted Nava to help solve highly scrutinized technology modernization challenges.</div> <div> </div> <div>As a client services company, we guide agencies constrained by legacy systems to a future with sharp user experiences built on secure, reliable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure. We bill for our time, offering our expertise and problem-solving approach to help our government partners enhance their digital products and services. People are at the heart of our work, from members of the public who rely on benefit programs to government agency staff. Through human-centered design and modern engineering best practices, we help our government partners understand user needs and deliver on their missions more effectively. This focus gives everyone at Nava the opportunity to do work that is meaningful, impactful, and deeply connected to public good.</div> <div> </div></div><h2><strong>Position summary</strong></h2> <p>Nava’s Software Engineering Manager is responsible for the career growth of their direct reports, ensuring reports receive guidance, relevant feedback and are correctly compensated. As a manager at Nava, you are also a technical contributor as either an individual contributor or a technical lead. Although the focus is on technical leadership, the incumbent is also a technical contributor who engages with cross-functional leadership, technical delivery teams, users, and vendors to ensure the successful design, development, and delivery of technology-based solutions in support of Nava’s culture and mission: Be Active Stewards, Pursue the Root Cause, Think Long-Term, Build Together, Inclusion is Essential and Progress Takes Work.</p> <h2><strong>What you'll do</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Engineering Management/Technical Leadership </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Writing code and performing code reviews</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Writing and reviewing technical specifications</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Working closely with cross-functional product teams to identify and mitigate technical risks</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Guiding the engineering team on planning, estimation, prioritization, trade-offs, and balancing technical debt and meeting project milestones</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Review architecture and designs from other project teams</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Designing technical roadmaps</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proposing and enforcing technical architecture</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Maintaining production systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Handling on-call duties and systematically debugging and resolving issues when they occur</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Contributing to growing Nava’s client portfolio</strong> </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Working on business development bids</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Participating in client stakeholder meetings related to growth</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Working with government stakeholders to get buy-in on technical initiatives</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strategizing with leadership on ways to grow projects</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Attending conferences and networking with potential clients</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Reviewing strategy plans and outlining technical requirements for potential work</span></li> </ul> <h2><strong>Required skills</strong></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At least 10 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale on Cloud platforms</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1 or more years experience as a People Manager</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience designing and implementing production-grade, cloud-native microservices and RESTful APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and containerized deployment patterns</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with using relational databases, preferably Postgres, using JDBC and ORM mappers like Hibernate</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with DevOps, preferably with Jenkins CI/CD</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Exp