Build and operate card and account lifecycle services, design developer-focused APIs, and improve resilient payment systems spanning card issuance, digital wallets, tokenization, and KYB/KYC.
Senior Software Engineer
📜 Description
- Support CMS modernization by building scalable, AI-enabled enterprise systems that reduce manual effort and improve data accuracy and transparency.
- Design and scale full-stack applications with Python-based backends and modern frontend frameworks such as React.
- Architect RESTful APIs and microservices that support NLP and large language model features.
- Partner with human-centered design experts to deliver intuitive, responsive, accessible user experiences.
- Lead backend performance, observability, reliability, and clean architecture efforts; improve CI/CD pipelines, testing, and secure deployments.
- Troubleshoot complex issues, identify automation opportunities, and contribute to technical roadmaps and engineering practices across teams.
🛠️ Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience building and scaling production-grade applications.
- Strong Python and modern API framework experience, such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django; solid React or comparable frontend experience.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and working with microservices architectures.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and secure deployment practices.
- Familiarity with AWS, cloud-native development, and AI/ML capabilities such as NLP, LLMs, or chatbots.
- Strong software design, clean architecture, secure coding, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.
✨ Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision insurance
- 15 days of paid leave
- 7 days of sick leave
- 2 days bereavement leave
- 11 paid Federal holidays
- Up to 40 hours for jury duty
- 401K with 4% employer contribution (and no vesting period)
- Up to 4 weeks of paid paternity and maternity leave
Full job description
We need a Senior Software Engineer.
Are you the person people call when their architecture won’t scale? When their API design feels “off”? When their frontend needs to actually make sense to a human? Do you push beyond “it works” into “it’s elegant, scalable, and built for the future”? If you’re driven by innovation and energized by experimenting with emerging technologies (especially AI-powered solutions) we want to talk to you.
This isn’t just another engineering role. This is an opportunity to build intelligent, human-centered systems that modernize how one of the nation’s largest healthcare agencies serves millions of Americans.
Come join us if you're motivated to learn from others, to learn from mistakes, to be part of a future-looking and growth-oriented team.
Let's go Skyward together.
What you’ll do:
What we’d like you to have:
What would blow us away:
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply. At Skyward, we’re focused on hiring individuals with the right skills and passion to grow, not just checking off every box.
And now the important part. What we offer you:
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