[Hiring] Software Architect @Agile Defense

Role Description

Agile Defense is seeking a hands-on Software Architect to own the architecture and technical direction of Workforce, an AI-enabled enterprise application platform focused on secure, user-centered workflows, enterprise integrations, and cloud-native delivery. Workforce is built as a set of containerized microservices deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in Azure Government Community Cloud (GCC).

• The Software Architect is the senior technical owner of the platform.
• This person sets architectural direction, leads the engineering team’s technical execution, serves as Release Manager for the platform’s multi-service release train, and partners with the Product Manager to turn roadmap priorities into executable plans.
• This is a hands-on role: the Software Architect is expected to stay close to the code, regularly designing, implementing, reviewing, and debugging software alongside the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production applications.
• 5+ years designing and owning production application architecture, including leading technical execution for an engineering team as a software architect, technical lead, or senior technical owner.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on coding ability in at least one object-oriented, strongly typed language such as Java, C#, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin.
• Professional experience building both modern web front-end applications and backend web APIs, services, and integration layers.
• Demonstrated ownership of production application architecture across front-end, backend, data, and integration concerns.
• Experience planning and delivering work for a team, including breaking complex requirements into milestones and tasks and managing dependencies.
• Experience with structured release practices for distributed or multi-service systems, including versioning, change control, release coordination, and rollback.
• Strong understanding of API design, authentication and authorization patterns, data modeling, error handling, testing, and maintainability.
• Practical understanding of secure software development, including access control, data protection, dependency hygiene, and production readiness.
• Working knowledge of AI-first application patterns: tool calling, system instruction design, context management and retrieval grounding, and integrating LLM capabilities into a broader application architecture.
• Ability to onboard into a large, complex codebase quickly and become the technical authority with limited handoff.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs, risk, and status to engineers, product stakeholders, and executive leadership.

Benefits

• $150,000 - $190,000 a year

Company Description

Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together.

• Happy - Be Infectious: Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment.
• Helpful - Be Supportive: Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork.
• Honest - Be Trustworthy: Honesty serves as our compass.
• Humble - Be Grounded: Humility ensures a culture of mutual respect.
• Hungry - Be Eager: Our hunger for excellence drives innovation.
• Hustle - Be Driven: Hustle reflects our relentless work ethic.