Senior Software Architect to own the technical direction and hands-on engineering of Workforce, an AI-enabled enterprise platform built on microservices in Azure Government Cloud. This role combines strategic architecture leadership with active coding contribution, ideal for someone who wants to shape product direction while staying close to implementation.
What you'll do
- Own platform architecture, microservice design, API contracts, and technical standards for the Workforce platform
- Lead design of AI-enabled features including tool calling, prompt engineering, context management, and LLM integration patterns
- Serve as Release Manager for multi-service deployments, coordinating release readiness, change control, and rollback decisions
- Mentor engineering team through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing; partner with Product Manager to translate roadmap into technical plans
- Contribute directly to codebase on features, integrations, and production fixes; maintain full-stack ownership across frontend, backend, and data layers
- Design secure enterprise integrations (identity, document workflows, collaboration tools) and manage technical debt vs. shipping tradeoffs
- Own production posture including incident triage, root cause analysis, observability, and post-release verification
Mission
Agile Defense is a defense tech company focused on adaptive innovation for national security missions. The Workforce platform supports secure, user-centered enterprise workflows with AI-assisted capabilities, targeting government and defense sector customers who require compliance with government cloud and security standards.
Required skills
- Object-oriented programming (Java, C#, TypeScript, Go, Kotlin)
- Full-stack web application development (frontend and backend)
- Production application architecture design and ownership
- API design and implementation
- Microservices architecture
- Release management and change control
- Secure software development practices
- AI/LLM integration patterns (tool calling, prompt design, context management)
- Team technical leadership and mentorship
- Azure and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)