Software Engineer - Mobile (Congress)

Join Verdance and help improve government digital services!

About the role

You’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 us:

Verdance 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.

• 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