Software Engineer

Job description

About the Company 

Thoriva is an AI product company that delivers intelligent, data-driven solutions to transform government operations. We combine AI solutions, commercial expertise, and complex business logic to address federal, state, and local government agencies’ biggest challenges. 

Job Summary 

As a Mid-Level Full Stack Developer, you will build and maintain modern, end-to-end web applications for Thoriva’s AI-enabled enterprise solutions. This role spans front-end engineering, backend services, cloud-native development, accessibility, performance, and secure digital delivery in support of AI-enabled application development for citizen developers. 

You will work closely with senior engineers, product, data, security, and domain teams to turn well-defined requirements into reliable, secure, and maintainable features across the stack. The ideal candidate has solid hands-on experience building user interfaces and APIs, is comfortable working in an Agile team, and is eager to grow into broader technical ownership. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Develop, test, and maintain full-stack features spanning responsive web interfaces, backend services, APIs, and integration components. 

• Implement capabilities for Thoriva’s application development platform, which enables business users, mission operators, and citizen developers to quickly deploy solutions into operations. 

• Build reusable React/TypeScript components and screens aligned to the existing design system, along with RESTful API endpoints and Java backend business logic. 

• Work with data, AI/ML, product, and design teams to display model outputs, risk scores, confidence ratings, evidence packages, and reviewer actions in the application. 

• Follow established patterns for secure data access to sensitive data. 

• Implement authentication flows, role-based access, logging, exception handling, and validation under the guidance of senior engineers. 

• Build interfaces that meet accessibility (Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA), usability, responsiveness, and performance standards — including verified color contrast, keyboard navigation, and both light and dark themes. 

• Support integration with PostgreSQL, object storage, caches, message queues, external APIs, identity providers, and AWS services. 

• Containerize and ship your work: build and run services with Docker, and deploy to AWS EKS through existing Kubernetes manifests and CI/CD pipelines, with support from senior engineers. 

• Use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) as part of daily development, and critically review their output before committing it. 

• Write and maintain unit and integration tests (Vitest/Jest, JUnit, Playwright), and participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and release activities. 

• Create and update technical documentation, API specifications, and implementation notes. 

• Troubleshoot defects and production issues, and contribute to performance and reliability improvements. 

• Continuously build depth across the stack with mentorship from senior engineers and architects. 

Required Qualifications 

• 3–5 years of experience in full stack, front-end, or backend software engineering, or a closely related role. 

• Hands-on experience building web user interfaces and backend services or APIs in a production environment. 

• Working proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and a modern front-end framework — React strongly preferred (Angular/Vue considered). 

• Working proficiency in Java (11+) — hands-on experience writing and maintaining Java services is required. Additional backend languages (Node.js, Python, Go, C#) are a plus but do not substitute for Java. 

• Working experience with AWS — required. You should be comfortable operating in an AWS environment: deploying containers, reading logs, and working with S3, IAM roles, and managed services. Designing cloud architecture is not expected at this level. 

• Daily use of AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or equivalent) for implementation, refactoring, tests, and debugging — with the judgment to verify, correct, and reject AI-generated code rather than accept it as-is. 

• Experience with relational databases — PostgreSQL preferred (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle considered) — including writing and tuning queries; NoSQL exposure a plus. 

• Solid understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, authentication and authorization concepts, logging, and error handling. 

• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS (Tailwind or similar utility-first CSS), responsive design, and cross-browser behavior. 

• Familiarity with Agile delivery, CI/CD practices (GitHub Actions), source control (Git), and automated testing. 

• Ability to take well-defined requirements and deliver working, tested features with limited supervision. 

• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with product owners, designers, senior engineers, and QA. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts (pods, deployments, services, ConfigMaps), Helm or kustomize, serverless services, API gateways, or message queues. 

• Exposure to build tooling and monorepos: Vite, Turborepo, pnpm workspaces; and to Java build tooling: Maven or Gradle. 

• Exposure to LLM integration — prompt management, tool/function calling, RAG, model catalogs — plus risk scoring, reviewer queues, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop workflows. 

• Experience with design systems and component libraries (shadcn/ui, Radix, MUI), dashboards, or data visualization (ECharts, D3, Recharts).Awareness of secure data handling, PII/PHI, encryption, and compliance requirements. 

• Experience working with onshore/offshore delivery teams. 

• Familiarity with DevOps and IaC tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Terraform, or similar tools. 

• Key Skills 

• Full Stack Development 

• React 

• JavaScript / TypeScript 

• Java / Node.js / Python 

• REST APIs 

• PostgreSQL / SQL and NoSQL Databases 

• HTML / CSS / Tailwind/ Responsive Design 

• Accessibility 

• Git and CI/CD 

• Automated Testing 

• AWS (EKS, ECR, S3, IAM) 

• Docker & Kubernetes Fundamentals 

• Integration Services 

• Qualifications: Bachelor's or higher
• Range of Year Experience-Min Year: 3
• Range of Year Experience-Max Year: 5