Senior Python/Django Engineer - Production Lead (Hybrid)

VTG; Bethesda (MD); Híbrido; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Quotient, INC. (A VTG Company) is seeking a Senior Python/Django Developer to join a federal-focused team supporting the National Library of Medicine. The role emphasizes production-grade Django applications, PostgreSQL data handling, and collaboration with federal staff and contractors in a hybrid Bethesda, MD environment.

You will own architectures, lead incident response, and work across front-end stacks (Angular/Vue/React) as needed. Public Trust clearance is required or obtainable.

Formación

• Able to work on-site in Bethesda, MD 3-5 days per week.
• Able to obtain a Public Trust background investigation.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience owning a production application end to end, including performance work on large datasets and leading incident response.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining real Django applications, including models, views, ORM queries, migrations and tests.
• Comfortable writing PostgreSQL SQL, reading query plans and making schema changes safely.
• Solid object-oriented design and common design patterns; ability to write code that processes complex, nested data structures.
• Strong debugging skills; can trace a problem through an unfamiliar codebase to its cause.
• Fluent with Git branching, rebasing and squashing in a shared repository.
• Good judgment about production changes, including testing, review, and rollback plans.
• Works well on a mixed federal and contractor team and explains tradeoffs plainly.

Responsabilidades

• Technical ownership: set direction for an application's architecture, performance and data model; document tradeoffs.
• Production lead: run incident triage and root-cause analysis; decide what ships and rollback plan.
• Data and integration: design pipelines, ETL and integrations with search/document stores (Elasticsearch, MongoDB).
• Continuity: write runbooks and onboarding notes to reduce single-point knowledge.
• Application support: fix bugs, deliver enhancements and handle production issues in Django apps.
• Performance and reliability: find and fix slow queries; improve tests and monitoring.
• Database work: write/tune PostgreSQL queries, migrations and data changes safely.
• Leave it better: improve code, tests and documentation beyond the ticket.
• Cross-project support: take on work in other NLM projects and learn new codebases quickly.
• Front end as needed: make changes in Angular, Vue or React when required.

Conocimientos

5+ years of software development

Production ownership

Debugging skills

Git proficiency

Federal/contract team collaboration

Herramientas

Django

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Angular

Vue

React

TypeScript

Node

Express

npm

Docker

AWS

pytest

Descripción del empleo

Quotient, INC. (A VTG Company) is seeking a Senior Python/Django Developer to join a federal-focused team supporting the National Library of Medicine. The role emphasizes production-grade Django applications, PostgreSQL data handling, and collaboration with federal staff and contractors in a hybrid Bethesda, MD environment.

You will own architectures, lead incident response, and work across front-end stacks (Angular/Vue/React) as needed. Public Trust clearance is required or obtainable.