Handshakes By DC Frontiers Hiring! Full Time Software Engineer in Federal Territory - Ricebowl

Handshakes is an award-winning DataTech company. We enable our clients to make safer, more informed decisions by delivering meaningful insights, harnessed from reliable data

We are hiring a Junior Software Engineer to join our Core Engineering team, building and maintaining the platform our customers rely on for KYC and investigation purposes.

You will work within established codebases and architecture, under the guidance of senior engineers and tech leads, writing production code that ships to real customers from day one.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on execution. Your job is to build well, learn fast, and grow into more ownership over time.

What You'll Do

• Write, test, and maintain features and bug fixes within our existing services, primarily using .NET Core / C# and TypeScript
• Implement work assigned by your tech lead within established architectural patterns and coding standards
• Write unit and integration tests for the code you ship; participate in code reviews as both author and reviewer
• Work with our data layer to support existing functionality workflows
• Maintain and extend existing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates for application-related AWS infrastructure, under guidance from senior engineers or cloud infrastructure team.
• Support deployment and basic monitoring of services on AWS, following existing CI/CD pipelines
• Document your code and contribute to internal technical documentation
• Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives with your team
• Pair with senior engineers to learn the codebase, our domain, and good engineering practice

** Work Arrangement - 3 days work in office on hybrid working as per company policy.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 1–2 years of professional software development experience
• Working knowledge of at least one of C# / .NET or TypeScript
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and relational database fundamentals (SQL)
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative development workflows
• Comfort working within an existing codebase and following established patterns, rather than designing your own from scratch
• Eagerness to learn, take feedback well, and grow within a structured engineering team

Nice to Have

• Exposure to AWS or another major cloud platform
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (e.g. Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation)
• Familiarity with document databases (e.g. MongoDB, DocumentDB)