Python Developer

PLEASE NOTE:

• It is a 100% onsite position Woodlawn MD.
  
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance
  
• Willing to work on-site 5 days a week.
  

Key Required Skills:

• Experience building scaling and maintaining production-grade Python applications.
  

Position Description:

• Ensure chatbot reliability safety and compliance through moderation guardrails and abuse prevention.
  
• Implement monitoring logging and alerting to support production reliability and rapid issue resolution.
  
• Design and analyze A/B tests to evaluate the impact of changes to chatbot prompts models or features.
  
• Lead code reviews and enforce best practices to maintain high engineering standards.
  
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines cloud deployments and infrastructure decisions supporting high availability.
  
• Evaluate and adopt new AI technologies and architectural improvements to support long-term scalability.
  
• Be proactive adaptable and highly engaged communicate clearly raise risks early and collaborate effectively to deliver high-quality code at speed.
  
• Communicate with stakeholders and support user feedback.
  
• Design implement and maintain relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB) to support chatbot functionality session management and knowledge base storage.
  
• Optimize database queries and ensure data integrity security and scalability.
  
• Manage document indexing and updates in the knowledge base to ensure accurate and efficient retrieval.
  

Skills Requirements:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Mathematics Engineering or a related field.
  
• Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
  
• 10 years of experience building scaling and maintaining production-grade Python applications.
  

Required Skills:

• Deep expertise building scaling and maintaining production-grade Python applications.
  
• Understanding of encryption secure data storage and transmission (SSL/TLS).
  
• Experience implementing secure login systems (e.g. OAuth2 SAML Multi-Factor Authentication).
  
• Experience with testing frameworks.
  
• Experience with relational (PostgreSQL MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (MongoDB).
  
• Familiarity with automated deployment tools (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions).
  
• Strong Python backend engineering experience including API design asynchronous programming and system integration.
  
• Ability to write clear technical documentation for maintainability and compliance.
  
• Proficiency in managing and querying both relational databases and vector databases for semantic search.
  
• Hands-on experience working with AI and LLMs in production environments.
  
• Solid understanding of key AI/LLM concepts including prompt engineering RAG AI agents context management evaluation and structured outputs.
  
• Understanding of how to measure LLM performance using frameworks like Ragas TruLens or Arize Phoenix to evaluate faithfulness relevance and safety.
  
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and make sound architectural decisions in ambiguous environments.
  
• Strong communication skills with a proven ability to be vocal engaged collaborative proactive and adaptable within cross-functional teams.
  

Desired Skills:

• Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines cloud infrastructure containerization monitoring and logging.
  
• Prior experience building or operating public-facing high-availability or regulated systems.
  
• Analyze logs and user interactions to identify usage patterns common queries and areas for improvement.
  
• Provide recommendations for enhancements based on data analysis to improve chatbot reliability accuracy and user experience.
  
• Familiarity with AI safety moderation and responsible AI practices.
  
• Experience working in fast paced startup-like" environments.