FutureFeed is a compliance SaaS platform serving the Defense Industrial Base, focusing on safeguarding U.S. government-sensitive information. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build features across their Rails/PostgreSQL backend and React/Next.js frontends, working hands-on with a small, senior team.
Responsibilities:
- Build features end-to-end across our Rails/PostgreSQL backend, our React and Next.js frontends, and our AWS GovCloud infrastructure
- Write production code daily and contribute meaningfully to architecture, tooling, and how we ship
Requirements:
- U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident currently residing in the U.S
- 8+ years building production web applications, with at least 3 years in Ruby on Rails
- Strong frontend experience in React, Next.js, or both
- Real database fluency: query plans, indexing, transactions, migrations on live systems
- AWS production experience (any region; GovCloud is a plus, not a prerequisite)
- Ability to debug across the stack — frontend network errors, backend N+1s, container networking, IAM
- Comfort working with AI coding tools as a force multiplier and explaining every decision they help you make
- Strong written communication — async-first team, decisions live in tickets and PRs
- Final round in-person in Baltimore, MD (all travel covered) — required
- Proceed only if you are willing to supply a prototype
- Microsoft Graph integrations (Intune, Defender, Entra) — much of our compliance evidence collection runs through Graph
- AWS GovCloud, ECS, Bedrock production experience
- Background in compliance, security, or regulated SaaS
- Familiarity with CMMC, NIST 800-171, or FedRAMP