Software Engineer II

About Inroads:

Inroads applies data, analytics, technology, research, and content development to co-create services and programs that are personalized, relevant, and engaging for the communities who rely on them. Our deep understanding of digital services, policy implementation, and ways communities consume information allows us to seamlessly integrate with organizations and public sector teams to revolutionize the ways they deliver complex services at scale.

About the role:

As a Full Stack Engineer on the BDAMAX program, you will work with a team of analysts, data scientists, and engineers to drive high-impact results. The team's mission centers on building and maintaining robust digital services for federal clients. While you'll be comfortable working across the full stack, your strengths lie in backend engineering, like designing reliable APIs, scalable services, and performant data pipelines. You are a creative thinker who seeks to innovate and deliver value, equally at home in TypeScript or Python. You lean into developing informed, production-ready solutions and thrive in an agile, collaborative environment. The frontend is built on React, and you'll contribute meaningfully there too; the emphasis, however, is on what's happening behind the scenes.

In this position you will:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs with a focus on reliability, scalability, and security
• Build and iterate on React-based frontend components in collaboration with designers and product stakeholders
• Develop and maintain data pipelines, transformations, and integrations across systems
• Participate in sustainment and enhancement tasks including performance monitoring, incident response, and security compliance documentation
• Implement and improve REST APIs, system integrations, quality assurance practices, and test automation
• Contribute to an agile delivery cadence including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and iterative releases
• Collaborate cross-functionally across product, design, data, operations, and compliance teams
• Advocate for technical best practices and contribute to long-term engineering strategy

What we are seeking:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field plus 5 years of relevant software engineering experience
• Candidates without a bachelor's degree must have 13 years of total relevant experience
• Proficiency in one or more of: TypeScript/Node, Python, with backend development as a demonstrated strength
• Hands-on experience with React for frontend development
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs and designing backend services
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS (e.g., Lambda, S3, RDS, ECS) or equivalent
• Experience integrating with LLMs
• Experience working in an agile software development environment (Scrum/Kanban), including backlog management and iterative delivery
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent tasks
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences
• The ability to successfully attain and maintain a Federal Public Trust security clearance, as required by our government clients; this includes a background investigation and a requirement that the individual has U.S. Citizenship or U.S. residency for three of the past five years (36 of the past 60 months). Resumes should specify residency information for the past 5 years of experience.

Nice to have:

• Prior federal or government IT contracting experience
• Experience designing data intensive digital service applications at scale
• Familiarity with security and compliance standards relevant to federal digital services (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing)

What We Offer:

Inroads offers a friendly work environment and competitive compensation and benefits package including:

• Salary: $115,000 - $125,000
• Premier health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• 401K matching
• Unlimited paid time off
• Paid personal and volunteer leave
• 13 paid holidays
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development stipend & tuition reimbursement
• Macbook Pro laptop & tech accessories
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) stipend for mobile device
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Supportive & collaborative culture 
• Flexible working hours
• Pre-tax transportation options for commuting to our office in Washington, DC
• Lunches and snacks

The salary range for candidates who meet the minimum posted qualifications reflects the Company’s good faith understanding and belief as to the wage range, and is accurate as of the date of this job posting.

At Inroads, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. Inroads endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Senior Director, People Operations.  Inroads participates in E-verify. EEO is the Law.

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