Veteran-Owned Firm Seeking a Sr. Python Developer for a role in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area
My name is Stephen Hrutka. I manage a veteran-owned firm in Washington, DC, specializing in Supply Chain Management, Strategic Sourcing, and Technical/ Cleared Recruiting.
HRUCKUS helps other Veteran-owned businesses recruit positions across DARPA, Strategic Capabilities Office, and Federal Agencies.
One of our longest-engaged Veteran-owned clients has a funded opening for a Sr. Python Developer.
The ideal candidate is a DMV resident with a minimum of 5 years of related experience, a 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. Experience with a federal agency as a contractor or federal employee is preferred.
If this role is not a fit for you but you may know someone, I am glad to offer a referral bonus.
Thanks,
Stephen M Hrutka
Principal Consultant
HRUCKUS LLC
www.hruckus.com
Position Description: Our client is seeking a Senior Python Developer. As a Python Developer, you will be part of an organization accountable for providing integrated and deployed support across Enterprise Networks. Your role is critical, as the mission and the customer rely on your expertise. The aim is to offer the customer a range of flexible but coordinated services, like Application Development, System Security, System Engineering, End User Support, and others across various departments.
What does our client's Team Member look like?
- You should be an ambitious and convergent thinker passionate about solving complex problems.
- You bring continuous exceptional value as an action-oriented team player.
- You have a strong aptitude for directing and managing top-level, high-visibility efforts involving strategic business planning, continuous improvement issues, and/or program integration.
- You should be able to demonstrate strong experience with preparing strategic plans and conducting strategic assessments for the Federal Government and/or large enterprise-wide organizations and/or experience with policymaking and planning involving strategic planning and analysis in complex organizations.
- You are zealous and committed to providing superior service. You are poised under pressure and have an optimistic attitude!
- If this sounds like you, then we would love to meet you!
Essential Duties:
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code
- Integration of data storage solutions includes 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
Required Experience and 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 shared middleware libraries used for testing, caching, messaging, and session management
- Good understanding of Python syntax and its nuances
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
- Good understanding of CSS
- Excellent understanding of front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Ability to write clean and organized 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, ViewJS
- Familiarity with AWS
- Experience and familiarity with Angular, ReactJS, and ViewJS
- 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:
- Previous management consulting experience
- Experience with a federal agency as a contractor or federal employee
Physical and Cognitive Requirements: The physical demands described below represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.
Physical:
- Frequently required to sit and work at a desk/computer for extended periods of up to 8 hours a day
- While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear
- Must be able to have repetitive wrist/hand/finger movement to work on computer and/or related office equipment
- Vision abilities required by this job include close vision
Cognitive:
- Ability to learn new tasks
- Ability to maintain focus and complete tasks independently
- Ability to remember processes
- Ability to complete tasks in situations that have a speed or productivity quota
Other Information:
- The target annual salary is $110,000 - $125,000
- Salary is commensurate with experience
- Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 K match, Generous PTO, additional Company Paid Benefits
About our client: Our client is a proud Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business based in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. They provide management consulting services to federal agencies and organizations supporting the public sector. Our client offers exceptional client services in Strategic Communications and Integrated Marketing (SCIM), Information Technology (IT), and Enterprise Optimization (EO).