Reimagining the U.S. government's terrorist screening process through user-centered design techniques and close collaboration with mission users.
Requirements
- Experience with source control (e.g. Git) and CI/CD pipeline tools such as AWS CodeBuild (preferred), Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions
- Experience designing and implementing scalable, maintainable, and OOP based software in a containerized cloud environment (AWS preferred) leveraging foundational services for computing, identity management, and networking.
- Experience developing backend services using Python and a modern web framework such as FastAPI (preferred), Flask, Django, or Chalice
- Experience with testing frameworks such as PyTest (preferred) or unittest
- Experience with Python project management, dependency management tools, and build tools such as poetry (preferred), make, uv, pip, or conda
- Familiarity with API standards such as REST and HTTP, message-driven architectures, persistent storage layers, and distributed systems
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability stacks such as Prometheus/Grafana (preferred), CloudWatch, or ELK/EFK
Responsibilities
- Work closely with teammates and stakeholders in a Lean Agile environment to build mission-critical production applications focused on data discovery and analysis
- Participate in code reviews, system design discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Leverage modern build tools, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure quality and delivery speed
- Design, implement, and test backend services and APIs using reactive programming concepts for production applications
- Integrate with cloud services and data platforms to expose high-value data through secure, performant interfaces
- Leverage DevSecOps pipelines, containers, and modern deployment tools to deliver software efficiently and reliably
Other
- Active Security Clearance (Secret or higher) or the ability to obtain one
- Effective written and verbal communication skills necessary to perform job duties and collaborate with team members
- Contributions to open-source libraries or community projects or personal projects
- Experience working with NLP libraries (e.g., spaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face Transformers) and integrating with commercial or custom generative AI services such as OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services, or proprietary models.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and how to leverage DevSecOps pipelines to deliver code
