Senior Software Engineer, Arlington, VA

Varmoda is seeking a Senior Software Engineer / Senior Java Full Stack Developer to drive foundational improvements to CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, and engineering practices that improve reliability and accelerate software delivery. The role focuses on designing and developing reusable frameworks, internal platforms, and developer tools that increase engineering productivity across teams. The resource will lead modernization efforts focused on cloud-native technologies, automation, AI-assisted engineering, and developer experience while building and maintaining scalable applications, APIs, services, and platform capabilities that support enterprise-scale solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive foundational improvements to CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, and engineering practices that improve reliability and accelerate software delivery.

• Design and develop reusable frameworks, internal platforms, and developer tools that increase engineering productivity across teams.

• Lead modernization efforts focused on cloud-native technologies, automation, AI-assisted engineering, and developer experience.

• Build and maintain scalable applications, APIs, services, and platform capabilities that support enterprise-scale solutions.

• Partner with engineering, platform, product, and architecture teams to solve cross-functional technical challenges.

• Contribute to architectural decisions that improve scalability, resilience, security, and long-term maintainability.

• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, eliminate inefficiencies, and improve SDLC and PDLC effectiveness.

• Support DevOps and platform engineering initiatives through automation, Infrastructure as Code, and operational excellence practices.

• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices across the organization.

• Stay current with emerging technologies and help evaluate opportunities to improve engineering effectiveness through innovation.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Software Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, or similar technical role.

• Strong programming experience in one or more modern languages such as C#, Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Experience designing and building scalable applications, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native services.

• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar technologies.

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and modern platform engineering practices.

• Experience developing internal platforms, frameworks, libraries, or tooling that improve developer productivity and engineering efficiency.

• Familiarity with API management, gateway technologies, secrets management, and infrastructure tooling.

• Demonstrated technical leadership through complex projects, platform initiatives, or cross-team engineering efforts.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive outcomes.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Must be a local candidate near Arlington, VA, and able to work in a hybrid environment.

• No third-party candidates.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with large-scale data platforms, ETL pipelines, or high-volume data processing environments.

• Strong interest in AI-enabled engineering, workflow automation, and modern software delivery practices.

• Experience with cloud-native modernization and platform engineering initiatives.

• Experience improving developer experience, engineering productivity, and SDLC/PDLC effectiveness.

• Experience working with payment industry applications or platforms.

Certifications & Clearance

• No specific certification or security clearance requirement was provided.