Software Engineer with 4 years experience (Gov)

[12 months contract, renewable]

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and RESTful APIs using Python.
• Own backend feature development end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Build and maintain integrations with internal platforms, external systems, and third-party services.
• Develop and enhance AI-powered backend capabilities, including document ingestion, retrieval, and knowledge processing services.
• Design and maintain data processing pipelines to support reliable and efficient information retrieval.
• Work with relational and non-relational databases to support performant, scalable, and resilient backend systems.
• Debug and resolve production issues, contributing to system reliability, observability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, software engineers and partner teams to deliver high-quality backend solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and uphold engineering best practices across testing, CI/CD, security, and maintainability.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the platform's architecture, performance, and developer experience.

Requirements

• 4-6 years of backend software engineering experience in a production environment
• Proficiency in backend development with Python, including web frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly Azure
• Experience with RESTful API design, third-party API integration, and OAuth 2.0 / token-based authentication flows
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL)
• Familiarity with operational support, and production troubleshooting
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline and version control workflows (Gitlab or GitHub, or equivalent)
• Effective communication skills and comfortable working across product, engineering and UX functions

Nice to Have

• Proficiency with Javascript/Typescript and Node.js
• Experience with LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases (e.g. Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), or prompt engineering
• Experience with Microsoft Graph API, SharePoint Online APIs, or Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) integration
• Familiarity with document processing pipelines — text extraction, chunking strategies, embedding generation, and metadata management
• Experience with streaming APIs (e.g. Server-Sent Events) and async programming patterns
• Familiarity with mobile application development or mobile platform integrations
• Familiarity with government security standards, GCC (Government on Commercial Cloud), or regulated environments
• Experience working with external vendor teams on API contract design and integration testing
• Familiarity with data processing pipelines, ETL workflows, or batch processing systems
• Experience implementing security or compliance-related engineering requirements (e.g. data classification, access control, audit logging)
• Experience supporting operationally critical systems or internal platforms
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)