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Stabilize, automate, accelerate: Modernize complex digital public benefit programs without disrupting ongoing services


2 - 10 employees

Technical Architect
9 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

AWS

JavaScript

Python

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Terraform

TypeScript

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📋 Description
• At Mighty Acorn, we make it easier for governments to deliver world-class digital services.
• Our vision is a world where “good enough for government work” returns to its pedestal: fast, reliable, and frustration-free.
• Specializing in modern software development, DevSecOps, and scalable infrastructure
• Technical Architects at Mighty Acorn play a critical role in navigating the intersection of technology and public service.
• Their work directly contributes to increasing public trust and satisfaction by building systems that are reliable, accessible, secure, and responsive.
• The ideal candidate will be a polyglot, comfortable working across application code (Javascript and Typescript and sometimes Python or Ruby).

🎯 Requirements
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 2+ years of Typescript/Javascript experience in a professional setting.
• 2+ years of experience working in or with government agencies. 
• 2+ years of experience translating stakeholder requirements into architectural plans for development teams to build.
• Experience architecting infrastructure hosted on AWS.
• Experience building CI/CD workflows for automated testing and deployment.
• Experience architecting, maintaining and debugging web applications.
• Experience leading engineering teams in complex government environments.
• Experience balancing leadership with writing code (this job requires both).
• Effective technical communication skills, such as writing Architectural Decision Records or other methods of communicating decisions and rationale.
• Curiosity, patience, and resilience in solving problems.
• Comfortable delivering results in ambiguous client environments.

🏖️ Benefits
• An ability to work efficiently, sometimes under tight deadlines.
• A preference for transparency and an ability to be direct and transparent in your own communication.
• An ability to adapt quickly and cope with temporarily ambiguous situations as requirements change.
• This role requires work be performed from within the contiguous United States.
• Candidates must either hold active US citizenship or a green card, and should possess work authorization that does not require any present or future visa sponsorship by Mighty Acorn Digital.
• Candidates selected for the role must pass a criminal background check prior to their start date.
• Candidates must have a fast (>100Mbps) and reliable internet connection and have a dedicated workspace with background noise at an appropriate level for audio calls.
• Candidates must possess at least a Bachelor's degree.