Senior Technical Lead

Be an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence. Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. We are an employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government. We’re passionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, and scalable while meeting our clients’ ever-changing needs. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone. We believe that while good design makes for a good product, human-centered design makes for an excellent one. Steampunk is seeking a Senior Technical Lead with an appetite for taking on new challenges.

Contributions

As a Senior Technical Lead, you’ll be working with a team of software engineers, test automation engineers, designers, and product owners to bring our teams conceptual solutions to life in a mature Agile/DevSecOps environment. You will be leveraging your experience by working with different application teams and technology stacks in order to provide our clients with exceptional solutions and functional products. As a part of the program management team, the technical lead will be responsible for setting the overall direction and providing strategic guidance to the various delivery teams. The technical lead will be conversant in all technical areas of the program with a specific focus towards development and DevSecOps. The technical lead is not expected to be an expert in all things; instead, delegation and a relationship of trust with domain leads in other technical areas is essential. The technical lead will possess the ability to communicate at all levels, including government leads, key stakeholders, and executive sponsors. May have to mentor junior developers.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

Ability to obtain a security clearance

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field required

8+ years of experience with software development

5+ years of experience with building software using agile methods

8+ years of experience with multiple back-end languages (e.g. C, C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks

5+ years of experience with build, deployment, and release automation and orchestration in a DevOps environment

5+ years of experience with infrastructure as code environments, including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD

5+ years of experience with automating tests for determining quality, security, performance, and usability of a system

Experience with containerization technologies like Docker

Experience writing and evaluating user stories, acceptance criteria, and pull-requests

Demonstrate sharp, analytical, problem solving, decision-making skills, attention to detail, and excellent communication skills

Experience with .NET, Java 17, Drupal, ETL, Angular 17

Preferred Skills / Attributes:

Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Ansible or Terraform

Experience in developing in Cloud Solutions

Experience with Looker, GCP

Certifications in relevant technologies

Experience with API development with Java Spring and JavaScript frameworks (Nunjucks)

Experience with Lean Design, Test Driven Development (TDD), and Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

A passion to contribute to the full stack – the front-end, back-end and anything in-between (middleware or otherwise)

About

steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $120,000 to $175,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.