Full Stack Python Developer

NiyamIT•Ashburn, VA

8h•Remote

About The Position

Niyam IT (Niyam) is seeking a Full Stack Python Developer to join their team in support of their work with a federal client. In this role, you will serve as an Agile Scrum team member providing software development and maintenance for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles. You will be responsible for activities associated with the delivery of software solutions related to customer-defined systems and software projects by working in close collaboration with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.

Requirements

US Citizenship with ability to obtain a Public Trust.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems, or a related discipline.
At least seven (7) years of related technical experience, with software design, development and implementation in a containerized Linux environment.
Demonstrable professional experience with our tech stack: Python, PostgreSQL, Java Spring Boot, Angular, microservices architecture, and AWS.
In-depth knowledge of both the Angular Framework (TypeScript, Angular Material, state management), as well as experience creating RESTful services using Java and spring-boot.
Expert experience in the following programming languages/libraries: Python, Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
Knowledge of creating Angular components, services, good understanding of state management and UI performance.
Experience developing and maintaining Python applications, APIs, automation scripts, or backend services in an enterprise environment, including familiarity with common Python frameworks and libraries.
Creating reusable libraries, develop interactive and responsive interfaces, implement complex solutions.
Demonstrated professional experience with developing SPA (Single Page Application) using a modern UI framework (Angular and Angular Material), backed by RESTful services.
Bridge the gap between user interface design and technical implementation.
Passion for user experience and user-centric development.
Strong communication skills that include leading design-related conversations, ability to build and nurture good relationships and foster an environment for collaboration.
Object oriented design and development (OODD) expertise, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Experience with source code control systems and concurrent development workflows (Git preferred)
Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management.

Nice To Haves

Technical Certifications, such as AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, OCP Java, etc.
Understanding of system architecture concepts and experience with system design (defining service building blocks, data flow, building systems with scalability, reliability, and maintainability in mind).
Familiarity with ETL tools, messaging tech such as Kafka, application security, automated testing, UML, state-management angular libraries such as NGRX or NGXS.
Experience with SQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL Server databases a plus.
DevOps experience/CI/CD pipeline.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and implement custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight.
Act as a member of a product team to support teammates and collaborate with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success.
Provide improvements to the product(s) being supported.
Participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases.
Support release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines.
Analyze complex project-related problems and create innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components.
Ensure product quality and timeliness of work, provide advice and guidance, resolve problems to meet objectives, and provide periodic performance reports.
Provide mentoring to junior members of the team.
Implement new features by transforming mockups into fully functional user interfaces integrated with API enabled microservice built on Spring Boot based backend.
Continuously research new and best coding practices.
Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
Encourage quality code through conducting reviews/leading tests.