About the Role
You'll ship product across the full NetworkOS stack, keeping the platform reliable, performant, and architected for 10x growth in regulated enterprise and defense environments. This is a hands-on execution seat on a small, senior team where you'll own complete vertical slices from database schema to UI. Your code commits move the roadmap, and your work is visible from day one.
Responsibilities
- Deliver features end-to-end, owning complete vertical slices (PostgreSQL schema, Kotlin service, GraphQL contract, Next.js UI) and shipping production features without waiting on handoffs
- Own core API and service health by designing and maintaining GraphQL and REST APIs with clean domain boundaries, keeping latency low and reliability high under growing load
- Master the data layer by designing PostgreSQL schemas, optimizing queries for scale, managing zero-downtime migrations with Liquibase, and building effective caching strategies
- Ship with confidence through comprehensive test suites (unit, integration, contract, UI) at 80%+ coverage, with CI/CD quality gates that catch problems before production
- Build resilient systems using structured logging, distributed tracing, custom metrics, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation patterns
- Elevate the team through code reviews, architectural discussions, and pair programming
- Automate with agents by building agentic primitives that make everyday full-stack work faster
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, backend-weighted with real production frontend contributions
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Spring Boot (or Java/Spring with willingness to adopt Kotlin)
- Working proficiency in TypeScript and React (Next.js preferred)
- Solid experience with Python and modern frameworks (FastAPI preferred)
- Experience with PostgreSQL, relational database design, and migration management
- Proven track record in continuous delivery environments with automated testing
- Hands-on Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
- Strong grasp of microservices patterns, API design, and distributed systems
- AI-native workflows — demonstrated ability to leverage Claude Code/Codex or similar agentic coding tools to accelerate development
- US citizenship required (DoD contracting — IL4/IL5 environments — and FedRAMP compliance)
Skills
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Python
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Liquibase
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- GraphQL
- REST/OpenAPI
- Claude Code/Codex
Location
- Minnesota
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- Collaboration.Ai is a mission-focused, AI-powered software and services company based in Minnesota, with employees, partners, and customers around the world.
- We unite people, technology, and purpose to accelerate breakthroughs that transform industries, empower communities, and create a more sustainable future.
- We collaborate with organizations across the defense ecosystem, helping them navigate complex challenges and drive transformative change.
- Our Products: NetworkOS — an AI-powered platform that aligns people, purpose, ideas, and expertise in real-time, generating actionable insights to propel movements forward.
- Our Products: CrowdVector — an integrated solution marketplace and innovation management platform that rapidly uncovers new ideas and advances breakthroughs to fuel movements.
