Senior Software Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

Nooks is hiring a Senior Software Engineer and Architect to build the next generation of secure infrastructure and software services powering mission-critical national security operations. You'll partner closely with our product team and our staff engineer to develop resilient, scalable systems that serve both government and industry customers across a growing network of classified environments.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll lead development of secure applications that underpin Nooks’ Classified Infrastructure-as-a-Service (CIaaS) platform. This role requires a strong expertise in backend technologies, comfort and competency with front-end work and a commitment to security, quality, automation, and scalability. You’ll contribute as an individual engineer while helping establish our engineering culture and mentoring others as the team grows.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participate in the decisions on “how” we deliver software. (Architecture, languages, decision delegation, contracting, DIY, model selection and integration).
• Partner on the “what, when, who and why” of our software with Design and Product.
• Lead a major feature or application. 
• Support junior engineering talent with mentorship and/or technical guidance.
• Build secure multi-tenant services on public cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.
• Build, architect, and consume APIs and backend services as part of the platform ecosystem, with an emphasis on automation, testing, and security.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance and their impact on your team and others.
• Interact with customers and partners, assisting them with integration of our services.

THE SKILLSET:

• 6+ years of progressively responsible software engineering experience.
• Excellent communication skills; experience working with end-users to design and build solutions to their needs.
• A habit of self-directed learning of new technologies, and the ability to learn quickly and adapt to a fast-paced environment.
• Must have led the architecture, development, and building of backend services and APIs to ensure performance, security, and reliability.
• An ability to successfully own technical problems end-to-end.
• Have extensive experience with Python, FastAPI, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Demonstrable, in-depth knowledge of at least one major commercial cloud platform and its associated services (e.g. AWS, GCP) 
• Must have made enough mistakes, and booked enough wins, to know what not to build and what good looks like.

LOCATION 

• Remote with preference for proximity to Washington D.C., Colorado Springs, or El Segundo, CA

ELIGIBILITY + CLEARANCE 

• Candidate must be a United States citizen and capable of maintaining Security eligibility up to the Top Secret/SCI level within 45 days of hire.