Fullstack Software Engineer (Congress)

Department: Engineering

Location: Washington, DC metro area

Employment Type: FullTime

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 on a small team working in Congress to support and modernize critical tools used by legislative staff. The team will be mostly remote, but there will be some in-person work required as needed (think a day or two every so often, not a fixed schedule), so living within a reasonable commute of the Capitol area is a must. This team will be significantly less constrained in shipping velocity than many executive branch tech teams, so we're looking for someone with a scrappy get-it-done mindset.

Here are our must-have priorities for this role:

• 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience

• Substantial experience with at least two of JavaScript, Python, Ruby or Java, and enthusiasm to pick up new tools and languages as needed

• Enthusiasm to learn the ins and outs of complicated legislative processes and participate with product and design to co-define a modernization approach

Here’s what we hope you bring:

• A civic tech background (any leg branch experience would be a big plus!)

• Have used (or at least experimented with) LLM coding tools and are excited about their potential

• Enough infrastructure experience to be comfortable working on DevOps tasks sometimes

• 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:

• $150k-$177k 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 working in government settings - before Verdance, we’ve started modern technology teams in Congress, helped rebuild HealthCare.gov, and redesigned social safety net systems for Veterans.