Python Developer

Peregrine Advisors; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine Advisors in Washington, DC is seeking a software developer to contribute to cloud-native, serverless solutions and data workflows. You will own code from refinement to production, collaborating across teams to deliver measurable public value.

The role emphasizes turning specifications into production-ready software, with 3+ years of experience, Python proficiency, AWS familiarity, and strong version-control habits to support continuous delivery in a hybrid, DC-area environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Working-level Python proficiency.
• Experience with modern languages and frameworks, and version control.
• Familiarity with AWS and CI/CD concepts.
• Ability to turn a defined specification into working, tested code and own it through to production.
• Basic proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Building AWS cloud-native, event-driven serverless application workflows using Lambda and Step Functions.
• Integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products with broader, internally developed system frameworks.
• Developing internal or external API interconnections to facilitate modern system architectures.
• Building the data and document pipelines that turn manual, paper-heavy process into something automatic.

Skills

Python

Cloud development

CI/CD concepts

Version control

Communication

Tools

AWS

Job description

Peregrine Advisors is a firm founded on a simple conviction: the best solutions come from the people closest to the problem, given real ownership and the tools to deliver. We are a data and technology innovation hub and a Benefit Corporation working at the center of the federal government's mission to deliver for client stakeholders and the US public, looking for highly motivated contributors who thrive when trusted to own a hard problem and equipped to deliver the solution.

Your first assignment

Your first assignment will likely include carrying user stories from refinement through to production by:

• building AWS cloud-native, event-driven serverless application workflows using Lambda and Step Functions;
• integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products with broader, internally developed system frameworks;
• developing internal or external API interconnections to facilitate modern system architectures; or
• building the data and document pipelines that turn manual, paper-heavy process into something automatic.

Adaptability and a demonstrated capacity to learn new concepts, systems, and tools is what keeps you ahead of program needs as projects complete and priorities shift.

The work is real, hard, and it matters. It is also where you start, not the shape of your career here: we hire people, not seats, and we move our best to where the hardest problems are.

What you'll build

• Modern, cloud-native systems that provide exceptional business value through streamlined, automated operation.
• Working, tested code that you own through to production, including the defects you find and fix along the way.
• The automation that replaces manual process: the checks, the validations, and the workflows that used to be somebody's spreadsheet.
• Deployments that are routine: services released through pipelines rather than through events.
• AI-assisted development as standard practice: tools like Amazon Q Developer, across the whole lifecycle.
• In time, the firm itself: new capabilities, tools, and lines of business you help spin up.

Who you are

You take what you build personally, and you measure it by whether it works for the people who depend on it. When priorities shift, you shift with them, and you treat every new tool and domain as a chance to get better at the craft. You communicate clearly, adapt across roles and clients, and care about creating public value. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task.

What you bring

• A working command of modern cloud development, and the range to move between building something new and making something existing work better.
• The delivery habits that go with it: version control, unit and integration testing, code review, secure coding, and accessibility.
• The communication to explain your work in plain language to the people who depend on it, and to hear what they need back.
• The precision to work where accuracy and auditability are not optional.

What you'll need

U.S. citizenship (this initial engagement may be staffed by U.S. citizens only) and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination. This is a hybrid role based on the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and it requires commuting into DC regularly. Everything else, the years, the certifications, the specific tools, we ask in the application and get into during the interview.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software development experience
• Working-level command of Python
• Experience with modern languages and frameworks, and with version control
• Familiarity with cloud development on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) concepts
• Ability to turn a defined specification into working, tested code and own it through to production
• Basic proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel

Preferred

• Amazon Web Services exposure or certification
• Federal information technology experience
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling

What we offer

A high-performing team of developers, engineers, data scientists, architects, and strategists solving complex, real-world problems, with work that runs from strategy formulation to hands-on implementation. We develop people across roles and clients, with extensive onboarding and sponsored training and professional development. And Peregrine has been a Benefit Corporation from day one: public value is built into the work itself, not bolted on afterward. Work worth your best years.

What we commit to

As a Benefit Corporation, our commitment runs three ways: real, measurable value for our clients; government that works better for the public; and a team that makes everyone in it better.

We hire people who want to help build the firm, not just work at it. If that is you, apply.

Peregrine Advisors is an equal opportunity employer.