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)