Senior Software Engineer

Focus is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work across the technology stack on test automation, developer tools, and CI/CD pipelines. The role supports government clients and external vendors by improving testing, release processes, and troubleshooting in a complex multi-vendor environment.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end (E2E) automated UI and API test suites using Playwright and TypeScript across multiple product verticals
• Design and build automated data generation tools and synthetic applicant profile generators using Python and REST APIs to replace manual data setup processes
• Develop user-friendly front-end tools in React and TypeScript that enable external vendor teams and government stakeholders to generate test scenarios on demand and monitor pipeline status
• Construct, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support quality gates and feature-driven promotion practices
• Lead rotating sprint triage efforts to debug system failures across a complex multi-vendor environment, accurately isolating whether issues stem from cloud environment changes, vendor code releases, or test configurations
• Provide actionable feedback through thorough code reviews and 1:1 mentorship, bake high code quality standards into deliverables, and help set team development patterns
• Serve as a trusted technical liaison to client leads and external vendor teams, advocating for developer self-service, smooth release gatekeeping, and collaborative troubleshooting
• Support cloud infrastructure updates using Terraform, embed automated security scanning, and navigate continuous compliance processes in a FedRAMP/Public Trust environment

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling using TypeScript and Python
• Practical experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and leveraging infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
• Experience designing complex systems that interact with multiple external services, databases, and third-party APIs
• Proven experience working on cross-functional agile teams, estimating complex engineering tasks, and directly communicating technical updates to client stakeholders
• Strong diagnostic skills for troubleshooting complex, distributed multi-vendor application failures and microservices
• Prior experience working on federal government digital service projects or civic tech programs
• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud environments, FedRAMP compliance standards, and observability tooling such as DataDog
• Experience implementing synthetic test data generators or complex mock data services for enterprise integrations
• Legal authorization to work in the United States
• Work authorization that doesn't require visa sponsorship, now or in the future