Software Engineer with 4 years experience (Gov)
First seen by Alion on Nov 12, 2026.
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[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)
Skills
Microsoft Azure, systems reliability, Design, MongoDB, RESTful API, Data Retrieval, Node.js, Data Pipeline, TypeScript, JavaScript, Production Support, Design-Build, Python, Technology Implementation, CI/CD, Back End Infrastructure, Debugging, Application Integration Architecture, Deployment, Testing