Agile Six is a people-first, remote-work company that serves shoulder-to-shoulder with federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. We build better by putting people first. We are animated by our core values of Purpose, Wholeness, Trust, Self-Management and Inclusion. We deliver our solutions in autonomous teams of self-managed professionals (no managers here!) who genuinely care about each other and the work. We know that’s our company’s purpose – and that we can only achieve it by supporting a culture where people feel valued, self-managed, and love to come to work.

The role

Agile Six is looking for an Engineer to join our agile team supporting the SimplerGrants modernization effort and the CommonGrants data standard. We’re seeking engineers who can work across the stack: designing and implementing shared data protocols and APIs, building developer tooling and automation, and contributing to clear, usable public documentation that drives adoption of open standards and tooling.

Our ideal candidate is curious, proactive, and positive, with a strong sense of how thoughtful technical choices improve developer experience and user outcomes. You’re comfortable learning a complex ecosystem, collaborating across disciplines, and making pragmatic tradeoffs as systems evolve. Most importantly, you’re motivated by the mission: modernizing grants infrastructure so it’s simpler, more interoperable, and delivers lasting impact for the public and agencies alike.

The work we do is largely open source and publicly available on GitHub. You can explore the CommonGrants repository and CommonGrants.org to learn more.

Responsibilities

• Data Standards & APIs: Define, maintain, and govern grant data standards and API contracts used to exchange grant lifecycle data across Grants.gov modernization systems and external partners.
• API Development: Design, implement, and operate production-grade service APIs and shared components in Python and TypeScript, applying appropriate patterns to meet scalability, security, and performance needs.
• Developer Tooling: Build and sustain internal and external developer tools (e.g., SDKs, CLIs, validators, generators, and test utilities) that support adoption, compliance, and long-term maintainability of the data standard.
• ETL & Metrics: Develop ETL pipelines, dashboards, and automated reporting for delivery metrics and program KPIs, ensuring data quality and usefulness for continuous improvement.
• Workflow Automation: Implement workflow automation via scripts and GitHub Actions to enforce engineering standards, streamline deployments, and reduce manual operational overhead.
• Developer Documentation: Own the public-facing documentation website for the data standard, including content strategy, UX/design collaboration, implementation, and release alignment.
• Cross-Functional Delivery: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve technical challenges, troubleshoot production issues, and communicate design decisions and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Team Growth & Agility: Support and strengthen engineering practices through mentorship, code reviews, pairing, and participation in recruitment/hiring, while remaining adaptive to evolving program needs.

Basic qualifications

• With 7+ years as a Software Engineer, you’ve worked with complex architectures across multiple products and business domains, while also building strong expertise in specific areas. You have deep experience with multiple languages and automated testing tools for them. You have solid experience maintaining and refining design and implementation choices over time.
• 5+ years of experience working with Typescript or Python
• 5+ years of experience working with SQL, including authoring raw queries independent of ORM frameworks.
• Experience self-organizing: taking ownership of assigning and managing your own work.
• Bias toward action: You favor experimentation and making decisions quickly over prolonged research and deliberation
• Pragmatic decision-making skills and the ability to weigh and navigate tradeoffs
• A strong sense of experimentation, eager to innovate, using hypothesis-driven development.
• You incorporate AI and emerging technologies to boost work efficiency and quality. Your deep understanding of design patterns and software development principles allows you to apply them effectively across various parts of the software stack, utilizing multiple languages and frameworks.
• You thrive in Agile environments, focusing on team success and embodying an Agile mindset throughout your work.
• You have lived and worked in the United States for at least 3 out of the last 5 years.
• Some of our clients may request or require travel from time to time. If this is a concern for you, we encourage you to apply and discuss it with us at your initial interview.

Additional desired qualifications

• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source libraries or packages, especially ones that have been published to npm or PyPI.
• Development experience in cloud environments like AWS or Azure.
• Experience with polyglot programming, using multiple languages, leveraging strengths of each language.
• Expertise in continuous integration and deployment systems such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with the U.S. Web Design System.
• Experience working with government agencies.
• You are a U.S. Veteran. As a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, we recognize the transition to civilian life can be tricky, and welcome and encourage Veterans to apply.

At Agile Six, we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people who believe in our mission and who can contribute to our team in a variety of ways.

Salary and Sixer Benefits

As a small organization and government contractor, the roles we hire for depend on the contracts we hold and the funding available. Salaries at Agile Six are tied to predefined peer groups based on the staffing plans we sell to clients. People in the same peer group are paid within 2.5% of the peer group’s salary mean, even when their project work differs.

We post fixed, non-negotiable salaries so that you know what to expect, and to remove the bias and inequity that often show up in salary negotiations. We also periodically raise the salary of all Sixers to keep pace with market conditions.

For more information about our Pay and Equity practices, please contact our Recruitment team.

The salary for this position is $154,931. 

Our benefits are designed to reinforce our core values of Wholeness, Self Management and Inclusion. The following benefits are available to all employees. We respect that only you know what balance means for your life and season. While we offer support from coaches, we expect you to own your wholeness, show up for work whole, and go home to your family the same. You will be seen, heard and valued. We expect you to offer the same for your colleagues, be kind (not controlling), be caring (not directive) and ready to participate in a state of flow. We mean it when we say “We build better by putting people first”.

All Sixers Enjoy:

• Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
• Competitive salary
• Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
• 401K matching
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
• Employer paid life insurance
• Self-managed and generous paid time off
• Paid federal holidays and two floating holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Self-managed professional development spending
• Self-managed wellness days

Hiring practices

Agile Six is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Note: We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation in applying for any of these positions, please reach out to [email protected]. We want to ensure you have the ability to apply for any position at Agile Six.

Please read and respond to the application questions carefully. Interviews are conducted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.