Senior Python Backend Engineer - GraphQL/Elasticsearch

Community Development Partners, LLC.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 103,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Community Development Partners is seeking a Python Developer in Jersey City with 4+ years of experience to deepen CI/CD and backend services. You will work with Elasticsearch, GraphQL, MongoDB, and Vue.js within a full-time role that emphasizes reliable, scalable systems.

Bring a human-first approach and a track record of delivering under pressure. The company maintains a structured growth path and values thoughtful, on-call readiness in a Jersey City environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way.
• Proven CI/CD results, ideally seasoned in Jersey City, NJ.
• Demonstrated Vue.js expertise in a fast-moving technology environment.
• A track record of question-everything delivery in a full-time structure.

Responsibilities

• Read the Elasticsearch stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root.
• Turn Community Development Partners's GraphQL on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something.
• Wrangle MongoDB config across environments so Jersey City staging mirrors production.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Community Development Partners workloads.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Project Management and Git.
• Hand off Vue.js runbooks so the next on-call at Community Development Partners sleeps better.

Skills

CI/CD experience

Vue.js expertise

GraphQL understanding

Elasticsearch debugging

Communications under pressure

Tools

MongoDB

Git

Job description

Community Development Partners is seeking a Python Developer in Jersey City with 4+ years of experience to deepen CI/CD and backend services. You will work with Elasticsearch, GraphQL, MongoDB, and Vue.js within a full-time role that emphasizes reliable, scalable systems.

Bring a human-first approach and a track record of delivering under pressure. The company maintains a structured growth path and values thoughtful, on-call readiness in a Jersey City environment.