[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Focus

Role Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will operate across the entire technology stack. You will:

• Build Playwright automated testing suites.
• Develop Python scripts for dynamic test data setup.
• Design self-service web interfaces in React.
• Construct automated CI/CD pipelines in AWS.

Working in a complex, multi-vendor government ecosystem, you will serve as a technical guide and gatekeeper—helping third-party vendor teams identify bugs, improve release velocity, and transition to modern CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end (E2E) automated UI and API test suites using Playwright and TypeScript across multiple product verticals.
• Design and build automated data generation tools and synthetic applicant profile generators using Python and REST APIs to replace manual data setup processes.
• Develop user-friendly front-end tools in React and TypeScript that enable external vendor teams and government stakeholders to generate test scenarios on demand and monitor pipeline status.
• Construct, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support quality gates and feature-driven promotion practices.
• Lead rotating sprint triage efforts to debug system failures across a complex multi-vendor environment, accurately isolating whether issues stem from cloud environment changes, vendor code releases, or test configurations.
• Provide actionable feedback through thorough code reviews and 1:1 mentorship, bake high code quality standards into deliverables, and help set team development patterns.
• Serve as a trusted technical liaison to client leads and external vendor teams, advocating for developer self-service, smooth release gatekeeping, and collaborative troubleshooting.
• Support cloud infrastructure updates using Terraform, embed automated security scanning, and navigate continuous compliance processes in a FedRAMP/Public Trust environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling using TypeScript and Python.
• Practical experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and leveraging infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Experience designing complex systems that interact with multiple external services, databases, and third-party APIs.
• Proven experience working on cross-functional agile teams, estimating complex engineering tasks, and directly communicating technical updates to client stakeholders.
• Strong diagnostic skills for troubleshooting complex, distributed multi-vendor application failures and microservices.
• Prior experience working on federal government digital service projects or civic tech programs.
• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud environments, FedRAMP compliance standards, and observability tooling.
• Experience implementing synthetic test data generators or complex mock data services for enterprise integrations.

Requirements

• Legal authorization to work in the United States.
• Ability to meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired.
• Work authorization that doesn’t require visa sponsorship, now or in the future.
• May be subject to a government background check or security clearance, depending on the contract.