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\nApplicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance due to the nature of our work as a government contractor.
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\nThat is, a love for people, for improvement, for human advancement through information technology. We are a people-centered business with a desire to serve others. We are diverse and unified; creative and collaborative; a collection of complementary, not competing talents. And though on the surface we remain relaxed, beneath, a torrent of energy links us to our civic tech mission.
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\nWe stand by our values, and we won’t compromise on any of them.
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\nIntegrity: We’re conscientious, intentional, and empathetic. Our words and actions align. That’s our character. Please don’t ask us to play another part, we’re poor actors.
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We need a Proposal Writer.
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Are you a storyteller, a compliance whisperer, and a collaborative powerhouse? Do you blend creativity with compliance, turn requirements into narratives and RFPs into real-world impact? If you’re someone who thrives in the fast lane, embraces smart tech (hello, AI tools), and believes storytelling can win hearts and contracts, then you’re exactly who we are looking for.
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Come join us if you're motivated to learn from others, to learn from mistakes, to be part of a future-looking and growth-oriented team.
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Let's go Skyward together.
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Write to win. Author clear, compliant, and compelling proposals (RFPs, RFQs) and generate RFI and Sources Sought responses which demonstrate an understanding of the customers’ mission for a range of federal agencies with primary focus on DHS.\nTeam up. Collaborate with capture managers, BD pros, solution architects, and SMEs to weave together win themes, discriminators, and evidence-backed stories that resonate.\nBring the narrative. Craft pricing narratives, management approaches, technical solutions, past performance, and executive summaries that don’t just check boxes – they tell a persuasive story.\nWork smarter with AI. Use GenAI tools like Grok, Claude, VisibleThread, Grammarly Pro, and Skyward’s custom AI stack to speed up content creation, while keeping that authentic human touch.\nKeep it Shipley. Build compliance matrices, run Pink/Red/Gold reviews like a pro, and enforce best practices throughout the proposal lifecycle.\nStay sharp. Monitor FAR, DFARS, GSAR, HSAR, and all the other acronyms that matter. Track compliance with Section 508, CMMC, TAA, and more. \n\n\n
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A bachelor’s in English, Communications, Journalism, Business, or related field (or the equivalent in lived experience and great writing).\n5+ years writing and coordinating federal proposals, with strong experience supporting DHS agencies (USCIS, CBP, FEMA, TSA, etc.) and managing multiple requirements against competing deadlines.\nAPMP Practitioner or higher (or Shipley-equivalent mastery).\nExperience contributing to pricing volumes – you get how cost realism, labor categories, and basis of estimate play out.\nDeveloping proposal schedules and facilitating kick-off, partnership, strategy, and solutions sessions.\nA track record of winning $25M+ opportunities preferably with DHS and other Law enforcement agencies.\nFluency in tools like GovWin, sam.gov, VisibleThread, Loopio, ProposalTech, Qvidian, or Privia. \nExperience working alongside or inside AI tools – and knowing when to trust, edit, or rewrite that generated content.\nA calm, collaborative energy – even when timelines are tight and stakes are high. \n\n\n
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You have prior experience with DHS-specific vehicles like Alliant 2, OASIS+, or GSA 8(a) STARS III.\n
You have spoken or written about proposals, AI in federal contracting, or best practices at events, blogs, or webinars.\n\n
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply. At Skyward, we’re focused on hiring individuals with the right skills and passion to grow, not just checking off every box.
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Medical, dental, vision insurance (fully paid for employees)\n15 days of paid leave\n7 days of sick leave\n2 days bereavement leave\n11 paid Federal holidays \nUp to 40 hours for jury duty\n401K with 4% employer contribution (and no vesting period)\nUp to 4 weeks of paid paternity and maternity leave\nCompany provided laptop\n$5,000 per year for professional development\n$600 per year for technical supplies and equipment\n$2,000 referral bonus\nLife and disability insurance\nHSA and FSA\nLegal Shield and ID Shield Voluntary Benefits\nOpportunity to work in a collaborative, motivated team focused on modernizing government services with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. Who says government work can't be exciting! \n\n\n
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We believe great work deserves great pay. That’s why we ensure our compensation is not only competitive but also fair and transparent, as required by Maryland law. Expect a salary that matches your skills, experience, and the value you bring to the table — because you’re worth it!
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We are Skyward.
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\nThat is, a love for people, for improvement, for human advancement through information technology. We are a people-centered business with a desire to serve others. We are diverse and unified; creative and collaborative; a collection of complementary, not competing talents. And though on the surface we remain relaxed, beneath, a torrent of energy links us to our civic tech mission.
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\nWe stand by our values, and we won’t compromise on any of them.
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\nIntegrity: We’re conscientious, intentional, and empathetic. Our words and actions align. That’s our character. Please don’t ask us to play another part, we’re poor actors.
\nCompassionate: If we may borrow a quote from Theodore Roosevelt: “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” Because our team is thoughtful and supportive, caring deeply for each other, our clients, and our work, this comes naturally.
\nInquisitive: We remain students by failing openly and turning lessons into solutions.
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We need a Proposal Writer.
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Are you a storyteller, a compliance whisperer, and a collaborative powerhouse? Do you blend creativity with compliance, turn requirements into narratives and RFPs into real-world impact? If you’re someone who thrives in the fast lane, embraces smart tech (hello, AI tools), and believes storytelling can win hearts and contracts, then you’re exactly who we are looking for.
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Come join us if you're motivated to learn from others, to learn from mistakes, to be part of a future-looking and growth-oriented team.
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Let's go Skyward together.
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At Skyward, we support flexible working hours and remote opportunities to help maintain a healthy work-life balance for all employees.
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\nOffers of employment with Skyward are contingent upon acceptable results of a background investigation.
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\nApplicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance due to the nature of our work as a government contractor.
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\nWe stand by our values, and we won’t compromise on any of them.
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\nIntegrity: We’re conscientious, intentional, and empathetic. Our words and actions align. That’s our character. Please don’t ask us to play another part, we’re poor actors.
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(**CONTINGENT HIRE BASED ON CONTRACT AWARD**)
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We need a Senior Data Scientist.
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The kind who looks at a tangle of federal and private datasets that don’t share schemas, don’t share IDs, and were never meant to talk to each other, and gets a little excited. The kind who knows that the answer is almost never “throw a bigger model at it” and is almost always “understand the data first, then pick the model.” The kind who can sit across from a federal subject matter expert and explain what a Leiden community is without making them feel dumb, and without dumbing it down either.
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If you’ve ever quietly fixed someone else’s “production” notebook on a Friday afternoon - the one with hard-coded paths, no random seed, and a function called final_FINAL_v3() - this might be you.
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Come join us if you're motivated to learn from others, to learn from mistakes, to be part of a future-looking and growth-oriented team.
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Let's go Skyward together.
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Lead end-to-end data science experiments. From a data readiness assessment, through clustering and topological risk modeling, into unstructured-data enrichment and entity resolution.\nRun exploratory data analyses (EDAs) on government-furnished data inside a government-controlled environment: profile completeness, find the schema mismatches, flag the gaps, and document what the data can and cannot support before a single model gets trained.\nApply graph analytics. Leiden community detection, betweenness and eigenvector centrality, motif analysis, temporal cluster detection, link prediction. And be able to explain in plain English what each one means and what it doesn’t.\nTrain interpretable classifiers (logistic regression, gradient boosted trees) and Graph Neural Networks (GraphSAGE, GAT) where the data supports them; reach for unsupervised anomaly detection when labels are thin (and they will be).\nRun probabilistic entity resolution across biographic, behavioral, and biometric features using tools such as Senzing. Handle name transliteration, DOB variation, and fuzzy address matching like the working scientist you are.\nApply LLM-based Named Entity Recognition and relationship extraction to unstructured field text and quantify whether the extracted edges actually change the graph (rather than just adding noise that looks impressive in a deck).\nWrangle messy data and recommend supplemental, de-identified data sources that would enrich the analysis, and document the case for each recommendation so the customer’s privacy and legal teams can make an informed call.\nDocument everything so the customer can rerun it after you’re gone. Reproducibility is a hard acceptance criterion here, not a “nice to have.”\nHold the line on rigor: confidence intervals on everything, null findings documented with the same care as positive ones, and zero appetite for dashboard theater.\n\n"},{"text":"What we'd like you to have: ","content":"\n\n
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Published research, open-source contributions, or conference talks in entity resolution, graph ML, or applied causal inference.\n
Knowledge of commercial data sources like LexisNexis, Transunion, Babel Street, etc\n
A track record of standing in front of federal subject matter experts and walking them through a null result without flinching.\n
A reputation among teammates as the person who finds the bug in the pipeline before it hits the deliverable.\n\n
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Medical, dental, vision insurance (fully paid for employees)\n15 days of paid leave\n7 days of sick leave\n2 days bereavement leave\n11 paid Federal holidays\nUp to 40 hours for jury duty\n401K with 4% employer contribution (and no vesting period)\nUp to 4 weeks of paid paternity and maternity leave\nCompany provided laptop\n$5,000 per year for professional development\n$600 per year for technical supplies and equipment\n$2,000 referral bonus\nLife and disability insurance\nHSA and FSA\nLegal Shield and ID Shield Voluntary Benefits\nOpportunity to work in a collaborative, motivated team focused on modernizing government services with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. Who says government work can't be exciting!\n\n"}],"salaryRange":{"min":180000,"max":200000,"currency":"USD","interval":"per-year-salary"},"salaryDescription":"\n
We believe great work deserves great pay. That’s why we ensure our compensation is not only competitive but also fair and transparent, as required by Maryland law. Expect a salary that matches your skills, experience, and the value you bring to the table — because you’re worth it!
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We are Skyward.
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\nThat is, a love for people, for improvement, for human advancement through information technology. We are a people-centered business with a desire to serve others. We are diverse and unified; creative and collaborative; a collection of complementary, not competing talents. And though on the surface we remain relaxed, beneath, a torrent of energy links us to our civic tech mission.
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\nWe stand by our values, and we won’t compromise on any of them.
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\nIntegrity: We’re conscientious, intentional, and empathetic. Our words and actions align. That’s our character. Please don’t ask us to play another part, we’re poor actors.
\nCompassionate: If we may borrow a quote from Theodore Roosevelt: “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” Because our team is thoughtful and supportive, caring deeply for each other, our clients, and our work, this comes naturally.
\nInquisitive: We remain students by failing openly and turning lessons into solutions.
\nUnconventional: For us, life isn’t what happens outside of work. Work happens inside of life and our culture erases the line often dividing the two.
\nAuthentic: Made possible only because we embody the values listed above. We’re relaxed and fun yet intensely curious and driven. Team members are placed with thought, care, and precision to ensure that Trust, Truth, and Transparency continue to represent our brand.
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\nBecause of that, we continue Onward, Upward, and Skyward.
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(**CONTINGENT HIRE BASED ON CONTRACT AWARD**)
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We need a Senior Data Scientist.
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The kind who looks at a tangle of federal and private datasets that don’t share schemas, don’t share IDs, and were never meant to talk to each other, and gets a little excited. The kind who knows that the answer is almost never “throw a bigger model at it” and is almost always “understand the data first, then pick the model.” The kind who can sit across from a federal subject matter expert and explain what a Leiden community is without making them feel dumb, and without dumbing it down either.
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If you’ve ever quietly fixed someone else’s “production” notebook on a Friday afternoon - the one with hard-coded paths, no random seed, and a function called final_FINAL_v3() - this might be you.
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Come join us if you're motivated to learn from others, to learn from mistakes, to be part of a future-looking and growth-oriented team.
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Let's go Skyward together.
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At Skyward, we support flexible working hours and remote opportunities to help maintain a healthy work-life balance for all employees.
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\nOffers of employment with Skyward are contingent upon acceptable results of a background investigation.
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\nApplicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance due to the nature of our work as a government contractor.
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\nThat is, a love for people, for improvement, for human advancement through information technology. We are a people-centered business with a desire to serve others. We are diverse and unified; creative and collaborative; a collection of complementary, not competing talents. And though on the surface we remain relaxed, beneath, a torrent of energy links us to our civic tech mission.
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\nWe stand by our values, and we won’t compromise on any of them.
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\nIntegrity: We’re conscientious, intentional, and empathetic. Our words and actions align. That’s our character. Please don’t ask us to play another part, we’re poor actors.
\nCompassionate: If we may borrow a quote from Theodore Roosevelt: “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” Because our team is thoughtful and supportive, caring deeply for each other, our clients, and our work, this comes naturally.
\nInquisitive: We remain students by failing openly and turning lessons into solutions.
\nUnconventional: For us, life isn’t what happens outside of work. Work happens inside of life and our culture erases the line often dividing the two.
\nAuthentic: Made possible only because we embody the values listed above. We’re relaxed and fun yet intensely curious and driven. Team members are placed with thought, care, and precision to ensure that Trust, Truth, and Transparency continue to represent our brand.
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\nBecause of that, we continue Onward, Upward, and Skyward.
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We need a Software Engineer - Test Automation.
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Are you the person people call when the test suite takes ninety minutes and fails differently every run? When “it works on my machine” is the most-quoted phrase in standup? Do you push beyond “we wrote a test” into “we built a safety net that catches the bug before the PR even opens”? If you're a well-rounded engineer who treats quality as a craft - equally happy writing production code, designing a test harness, or hunting down the race condition behind a flaky CI run - we want to talk to you.
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Come join us if you're motivated to learn from others, to learn from mistakes, to be part of a future-looking and growth-oriented team.
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Let's go Skyward together.
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Serve as an engineer supporting CMS's modernization efforts, turning manual test cycles into automated, observable, fast-feedback systems that scale with the mission.\nDesign, build, and maintain test automation frameworks across the stack so quality is engineered in, not inspected at the end.\nChampion shift-left quality: pair with developers on test strategy, push coverage upstream, and make sure quality is everyone's job, not a gate at the end of the pipeline.\nWrite real software (Python, preferably) to build test harnesses, fixtures, data generators, and tooling that developers actually want to use.\nOwn the API and UI automation layers, browser automation, and accessibility coverage where it counts.\nIntegrate tests deeply into CI/CD - parallelized, sharded, and tuned so the feedback loop is measured in minutes, not coffee breaks.\nHunt down flakiness like it's personal. Quarantine it, root-cause it, fix it, and put guardrails in place so it doesn't come back.\nDesign performance, load, and chaos experiments so the team knows how the system behaves before real users find out.\nContribute to architectural decisions, technical roadmaps, and engineering best practices across the program. Oh, and mentor the engineers around you while you're at it.\nPartner cross-functionally with product, security, customer experience, and platform teams to keep delivery moving and the mission front and center.\n\n"},{"text":"What we’d like you to have: ","content":"\n\n
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).\n5+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with deep specialization in test automation and quality engineering at production scale.\nStrong programming chops in at least one modern language (preferably Python and TypeScript) and the judgment to know which one fits the job.\nHands-on experience designing and maintaining test automation frameworks (unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance).\nProduction experience with browser and API automation tools (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST Assured, Postman/Newman, Pact, or similar).\nSolid experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).\nComfort with performance and load testing tooling (k6, JMeter, or similar) and a working understanding of what “good” looks like.\nWorking knowledge of containerized test environments (Docker, Kubernetes).\nA well-rounded engineering profile: you can read production code, pair with developers, and ship features when the team needs to roll up its sleeves.\nStrong understanding of secure coding and DevSecOps practices.\n\n"},{"text":"What would blow us away: ","content":"\n\n
Experience with Section 508 / WCAG accessibility testing and tooling.\n
Hands-on experience with FedRAMP, FISMA, or other federal compliance frameworks — including ATO support.\n
Previous experience supporting CMS or other HHS agencies.\n\n
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Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply. At Skyward, we’re focused on hiring individuals with the right skills and passion to grow, not just checking off every box.
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Medical, dental, vision insurance (fully paid for employees)\n15 days of paid leave\n7 days of sick leave\n2 days bereavement leave\n11 paid Federal holidays\nUp to 40 hours for jury duty\n401K with 4% employer contribution (and no vesting period)\nUp to 4 weeks of paid paternity and maternity leave\nCompany provided laptop\n$5,000 per year for professional development\n$600 per year for technical supplies and equipment\n$2,000 referral bonus\nLife and disability insurance\nHSA and FSA\nLegal Shield and ID Shield Voluntary Benefits\nOpportunity to work in a collaborative, motivated team focused on modernizing government services with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. Who says government work can't be exciting!\n\n"}],"salaryRange":{"min":100000,"max":120000,"currency":"USD","interval":"per-year-salary"},"salaryDescription":"\n
We believe great work deserves great pay. That’s why we ensure our compensation is not only competitive but also fair and transparent, as required by Maryland law. Expect a salary that matches your skills, experience, and the value you bring to the table — because you’re worth it!
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We are Skyward.
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\nThat is, a love for people, for improvement, for human advancement through information technology. We are a people-centered business with a desire to serve others. We are diverse and unified; creative and collaborative; a collection of complementary, not competing talents. And though on the surface we remain relaxed, beneath, a torrent of energy links us to our civic tech mission.
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\nWe stand by our values, and we won’t compromise on any of them.
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\nIntegrity: We’re conscientious, intentional, and empathetic. Our words and actions align. That’s our character. Please don’t ask us to play another part, we’re poor actors.
\nCompassionate: If we may borrow a quote from Theodore Roosevelt: “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” Because our team is thoughtful and supportive, caring deeply for each other, our clients, and our work, this comes naturally.
\nInquisitive: We remain students by failing openly and turning lessons into solutions.
\nUnconventional: For us, life isn’t what happens outside of work. Work happens inside of life and our culture erases the line often dividing the two.
\nAuthentic: Made possible only because we embody the values listed above. We’re relaxed and fun yet intensely curious and driven. Team members are placed with thought, care, and precision to ensure that Trust, Truth, and Transparency continue to represent our brand.
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\nBecause of that, we continue Onward, Upward, and Skyward.
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We need a Software Engineer - Test Automation.
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Are you the person people call when the test suite takes ninety minutes and fails differently every run? When “it works on my machine” is the most-quoted phrase in standup? Do you push beyond “we wrote a test” into “we built a safety net that catches the bug before the PR even opens”? If you're a well-rounded engineer who treats quality as a craft - equally happy writing production code, designing a test harness, or hunting down the race condition behind a flaky CI run - we want to talk to you.
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Come join us if you're motivated to learn from others, to learn from mistakes, to be part of a future-looking and growth-oriented team.
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Let's go Skyward together.
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