11 points by usdsgov 30 days ago | parent [-] | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
United States Digital Service | Senior Product Managers, Senior Designers, Senior Software Engineers, Senior Site Reliability Engineers, and more! | Washington, DC | ONSITE https://www.usds.gov/
We're looking for the most tenacious designers, software engineers, product managers, and more, who are committed to untangling, rewiring, and redesigning critical government services. You'll join a team of the most talented technologists from across the private sector and government. No government experience or resume required! We work on some of the biggest issues affecting the American people there are: immigration, veterans, students, health care, and more. Come join us in shifting government tech in the right direction!
See one of our Reports to Congress for examples of what you could be working on:
In plain language: We are looking for empathetic and mission focused engineers, designers, product managers, government procurement specialists, bureaucracy hackers, and more with 3+ years of experience in the tech industry to work on sometimes ambiguous-- sometimes huge-- but always impactful work for the American people.
Just a minor criticism of the above, the first line of your comment comes off as lazy and lacks attention to detail. It would put me off of applying - as a candidate this is an expectation.
Hey, I appreciate that feedback and it is pretty embarrassing. This account was set to delay:0 and as such can't be edited after post, I'm afraid. The person running this posting every month is actually not a recruiter, but just another engineer who found her USDS job from cruising on hackernews via Ctrl+F. For what it's worth, she's on-call for Medicare & Healthcare.gov and is really tired.
That's more than understandable - no edit necessary, it was just a minor criticism. I wish yourself and your colleague the best of wishes with managing your governments websites, that is an admirable responsibility during these trying times as I expect an awful lot of Americans depend on it.
I have the privilege to work alongside members of the Digital Services team at Veterans Affairs, and I will attest they are incredible people and some of the most talented minds in the business.
These are the great people working hard on tangible improvements to government digital services.
United States Digital Service | Senior Product Managers, Senior Designers, Senior Software Engineers, Senior Site Reliability Engineers, and more! | Washington, DC | ONSITE https://www.usds.gov/
We're looking for the most tenacious designers, software engineers, product managers, and more, who are committed to untangling, rewiring, and redesigning critical government services. You'll join a team of the most talented technologists from across the private sector and government. No government experience or resume required! We work on some of the biggest issues affecting the American people there are: immigration, veterans, students, health care, and more. Come join us in shifting government tech in the right direction!
See one of our Reports to Congress for examples of what you could be working on:
https://www.usds.gov/report-to-congress/2017/07/
In plain language: We are looking for empathetic and mission focused engineers, designers, product managers, government procurement specialists, bureaucracy hackers, and more with 3+ years of experience in the tech industry to work on sometimes ambiguous-- sometimes huge-- but always impactful work for the American people.
Apply here:
https://www.usds.gov/apply