Django/Python Developer (Full-Stack)
About The Position
Quotient-Inc (a VTG company) is seeking a senior full-stack developer to own and modernize shared Python/Django capabilities and serve as the technical escalation point for complex, cross-application work. The role combines hands-on development with architecture, secure identity and database integration, lifecycle upgrades, production troubleshooting, documentation, and mentoring. The developer will collaborate with application teams, DevTools/DevOps, NIH CIT, Security, and database administrators across on-premises and AWS environments. The position is hybrid in Bethesda, Maryland, with compensation of $100,000–$120,000 annually. The work includes designing, developing, testing, and maintaining Python/Django applications, reusable libraries, REST APIs, and supporting JavaScript, HTML, and CSS components. The developer will lead end-of-life upgrades across the application portfolio, including dependency inventories, compatibility assessments, package updates, refactoring, cross-environment testing, coordination with consuming teams, and migration and rollback guidance. Responsibilities also include building and validating Python runtimes from source when approved installers are unavailable, and modernizing shared Django infrastructure for Python 3.12+ compatibility with automated tests, versioning, deprecation paths, diagrams, runbooks, and coordinated adoption. The role implements and troubleshoots identity and access technologies including NIH Login/SiteMinder, CAS and django-cas-ng, AWS Cognito, JWT/OAuth2, Django authentication backends, authorization decorators, role and permission mapping, and secure sessions. It also integrates Django applications with Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS, and other approved data sources using centralized password-lookup and secrets-management services, supporting credential rotation, least privilege, and removal of hard-coded secrets. Application security work includes CSP, XSS/CSRF protections, HSTS, secure headers and cookies, dependency remediation, and penetration-test findings. The supplied description ends mid-sentence after mentioning external scripts or nonce/hash-based CS.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Git and the Gitflow workflow.
- Experience reading SQL.
- Experience using RDBMS.
- Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment environments.
- Experience with automated testing.
- JavaScript development experience beyond jQuery.
- Experience using basic AWS components, including EC2, Bastion, RDS, and S3.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain Python/Django applications, reusable libraries, REST APIs, and supporting JavaScript/HTML/CSS components.
- Lead end-of-life Python and Django upgrades across the application portfolio, including dependency inventory, compatibility assessment, package updates, refactoring deprecated APIs, testing, team coordination, and migration and rollback guidance.
- Build, validate, package, and distribute Python runtimes from source when approved installers are unavailable; verify checksums, test suites, pip and virtual-environment behavior, and compatibility with internal artifact repositories.
- Modernize shared Django infrastructure libraries and related packages, delivering Python 3.12+ compatibility, automated tests, versioning, deprecation paths, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and coordinated adoption.
- Implement and troubleshoot NIH Login/SiteMinder, CAS and django-cas-ng, AWS Cognito, JWT/OAuth2, Django authentication backends, authorization decorators, role and permission mapping, and secure session handling.
- Integrate Django applications with Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS, and other approved data sources through centralized password-lookup and secrets-management services; support credential rotation, least privilege, and removal of hard-coded secrets.
- Enforce application security protections, including CSP, XSS/CSRF protections, HSTS, secure headers and cookies; remediate dependencies and penetration-test findings.
- Collaborate with application teams, DevTools/DevOps, NIH CIT, Security, and database administrators across on-premises and AWS environments.
- Provide technical escalation for complex cross-application work, production troubleshooting, documentation, and mentoring.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
