Associate Software Engineer (CMS-HIOS)

About Pluribus Digital

Join us and do work that matters: use your skills to improve how your government serves the public! Pluribus Digital partners with our government customers to design, develop, and deliver useful and impactful digital products. We are a hands-on digital services consultancy – part technologists, part change agents, and all heart.  We employ modern best practices in all that we do as we work to solve problems in public health, financial industry regulation, granting citizenship and asylum, and identity and access management.

About the Role

The Associate Software Engineer contributes to the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software solutions while continuing to build technical expertise and professional experience. You will be working on our Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) Health Information Oversight System (HIOS) team where you will be planning, developing, executing, and documenting manual and automated testing across functional, integration, system, regression, performance, and release-readiness activities. This role will also be responsible for maintaining and expanding reusable test suites, managing defects and test evidence, and verifying traceability between requirements and results. Engineers at this level are expected to work with increasing independence, own smaller features and enhancements, and actively participate in team collaboration and technical discussions.

What you will do:

Design, develop, test, and maintain software solutions that support customer and business objectives.

Plan, develop, execute, and document manual and automated testing across functional, integration, system, regression, performance, and release-readiness activities.

Maintain and expand reusable test suites, manage defects and test evidence, and verify traceability between requirements and results.

Leverage tools like JMeter, Postman, Selenium, Playwright in support of test automation.

Ensure accessibility in development leveraging tools like ANDI, Inspect DevTool, CCA, NVDA, and JAWS.

Implement features and enhancements with limited supervision.

Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.

Troubleshoot and resolve application defects and technical issues.

Collaborate with engineers, designers, business analysts, and stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.

Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge-sharing efforts.

Participate in Agile planning, estimation, and delivery activities.

Continuously improve technical skills and knowledge of modern development practices.

Agile Collaboration

Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

Perform peer code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.

Produce technical documentation supporting development and operational activities.

Communicate technical solutions, risks, and progress with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and other cross-functional team members to deliver reliable software.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent experience.

Ability to obtain and maintain a CMS Moderate Risk Public Trust clearance

Two or more years of software development experience.

Experience building and maintaining software applications.

Understanding of software engineering principles and development practices.

Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with cloud-native technologies and modern development frameworks.

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.

Experience with AWS

Experience with Selenium, Playwright

Experience supporting federal government programs.

Relevant technical certifications.

Why Pluribus May Be a Fit for You

We are purpose driven. We support missions and products that serve the public good, and where our focused capabilities positively impact those mission outcomes. We bring a consultative approach to partner with our government customers and help them succeed as change makers.

Pluribus is a calm company. We are knowledge workers. People do their best work when they are not rushed by artificial urgency or drained by a culture of facetime and workaholism. By having confidence in our people, we can get more done at better quality. When real crunch time comes, we are not already stretched to the limit.

We are stronger because of the variety of skills and personal backgrounds of our team. We hold ourselves accountable with annual reporting on diversity statistics. As a woman owned and led company, diversity, equity, and inclusion is woven into all aspects of the organization.

Compensation & Benefits

Pluribus Digital offers a competitive salary that is determined at the time of offer. We are hiring for multiple levels under this job posting. Compensation will be based on experience and qualifications, with salary ranges aligned accordingly. If a candidate is a strong fit at a more junior or senior level to what is outlined here, we will assess them accordingly and apply the appropriate salary range during the hiring process. The range for this specific role is from $75,000 to $85,000 depending on experience. Salary is augmented with opportunity to earn annual bonus and medical/dental/vision benefits, PTO, company paid life insurance and a generous 401k match program. Details on benefits can be found here: https://pluribusdigital.com/content/join/benefits.