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Junior Engineer

United States, Remote

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

We are seeking a junior engineer (Engineering I) to serve as an Integration & Platform Engineer on a cross‑functional team responsible for secure, reliable submission of Veteran forms and artifacts through multiple VA systems. You will own PDF generation, packaging, submission, error handling, and observability across the entire flow—from Benefits Intake API → EMMS API → Caseflow Management Platform (CMP) → Veterans Benefits Management System (VBMS)—ensuring each hand‑off is compliant, monitored, and performant.

Scope of Work

  • Generate PDFs using the VA PDFFill library within vets‑api, ensuring fidelity to source data.
  • Package PDF, JSON, and metadata into CMP‑compliant envelopes for downstream routing.
  • Integrate with DocuSign Government and other third‑party PDF signing/routing tools.
  • Submit packets to the Benefits Intake API and validate successful routing to VBMS/Caseflow.
  • Implement polling and idempotent retries/backoff to query status and guarantee delivery.
  • Diagnose & troubleshoot data/document routing errors with external partner teams.
  • Enforce PII retention policies (ephemeral storage), compute MD5/SHA‑256 checksums for audit, and manage secrets securely.
  • Integrate or configure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) for vets‑api components; add back‑end monitoring tools as needed.
  • Ensure compliance with VA security requirements (FedRAMP, NIST 800‑53).
  • Automate integration & performance tests to verify reliability at scale.
  • Build dashboards & alerts keyed on GUIDs to surface latency, failure modes, and throughput metrics.

Responsibilities

  • This role centers on crafting components and service APIs, using various frameworks and architectures to thoughtfully integrate advanced features. This is a hands-on coding role.
  • In this role, you’ll work with others to solve technical challenges, design effective solutions, troubleshoot production issues, and improve system performance. You’ll apply design patterns to support quality decisions and contribute to maintaining standards through code reviews, tools, testing strategies, and metrics.
  • You’ll apply your experience to make informed architectural decisions, using design patterns and best practices to maintain quality through code reviews and metrics. Your exposure to diverse systems will help you make effective choices for architecture and scalability, supporting smoother workflows and enhancing the development process.
  • We value teamwork and mentorship. In this role, you’ll support colleagues through code reviews and pair programming, helping to strengthen their skills and improve code quality. You’ll also communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams to foster a collaborative environment.
  • This position encourages you to champion innovative ideas and support others in engaging with new approaches. By sharing context and connecting team members to the broader goals, you’ll help address challenges holistically and contribute to meaningful, systemic improvements and make informed trade offs.
  • We expect this role and the responsibilities associated with it to grow and change over time. We value agility, and count on your ability to adapt and grow your skills as the team and needs of the project evolve.
  • Support the practice of engineering within the organization as needed, through activities such as help with recruitment and hiring, code challenges, and participating in our community of practice.

Basic Qualifications

  • 3+ years experience as a software engineer with a focus on front-end frameworks
  • Recent experience with React and JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • At least one year of experience building products and services within the VA.gov ecosystem, ideally involving digital forms.
  • Expertise with the VA Design System.
  • Demonstrated self‑management and ownership of your work.
  • Demonstrated history of bringing a combination of initiative, pragmatism, creativity and tenacity to solve hard problems.
  • Ability to work independently on high complexity tasks, and to collaborate as it makes sense for the problem and the work.
  • Deep understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1, Section 508) and automated testing tools (Cypress, Playwright, axe, pa11y).
  • Thrive in Agile, self‑organizing environments focused on team success.
  • Pragmatic decision‑making skills, bias for action, and a strong sense of experimentation.
  • Experience working in a cross-functional team, including research, design, engineering, and product.
  • Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 out of the last 5 years.
  • Some of our clients may request or require travel from time to time. If this is a concern for you, we encourage you to apply and discuss it with us at your initial interview.

Additional Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with vets‑json‑schema.
  • Experience designing PDF/JSON outputs; familiarity with the PDFFill library.
  • Node.js or Python for workflow service APIs; Ruby on Rails a plus.
  • Proficiency with Cypress or Playwright integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Development experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure).
  • Expertise in CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
  • 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.
  • 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 careers@agile6.com. 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.

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