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)