Python Developer

As a Python Developer, you will play a crucial role in providing integrated and deployed support across Enterprise Networks. The organization is responsible for providing flexible yet coordinated services, including Application Development, System Security, System Engineering, End-User Support, and more, to various departments. Your expertise is highly valued since the mission and the customer rely on your contributions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code.
• Integration of data storage solutions, including but not limited to databases, key-value stores, blob stores, document stores, graphs, etc.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Supporting the customer.
• Trusted to understand the technical and functional design requirements related to Python using Django as a web framework.
• Designing, developing, and testing mission applications.
• Designing and developing new web applications.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications.
• Creating back-end components.
• Connect applications with additional web servers.
• Maintaining APIs.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a technical discipline related to the specific skill or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience.
• Experience with Django and other common middleware libraries used for testing, caching, messaging, and session management.
• Good understanding of Python syntax and its nuances.
• Familiarity with Kafka and event-driven architecture.
• Believer in the Event-Driven approach.
• Experience with API integration.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Good understanding of CSS preprocessors such as Sass and Scss.
• Excellent understanding of front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Ability to write clean code.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools, including Git, Github, SVN, and Mercurial
• Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
• Knowledge of server-side templating languages, including Slim and Liquid.
• Familiarity with testing tools.
• Exhibited CSS, HTML, JQuery, Ajax, and JSON proficiency.
• Experience with database management (MySQL, Postgres).
• Experience with design, development, and testing of integrated mission applications, RESTful web services, and external libraries in multiple languages to interface with APIs.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies.
• Experience with JavaScript, Angular, ReactJS, Vue.js
• Familiarity with AWS.
• Experience and familiarity with Angular, ReactJS, and Vue.js.
• Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful API concepts API.
• A knack for writing clean, readable code.
• Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Good understanding of information gathering and the questioning method, i.e., able to ask how, what, when, where, why, and who to discern problems.
• Familiarity with continuous integration.

Preferred Qualifications/Certifications:

• Previous management consulting experience.
• Experience with a federal agency as a contractor or federal employee
• Cloud Data Architect Professional certification

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must have a Public Trust

Work Location:

• Washington, DC - hybrid