Senior Python/Django Lead — On-Site Bethesda

Virtual Technologies Group; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Quotient, Inc. is seeking a Senior Python/Django Developer to own production Django applications and lead performance initiatives for MeSH-related projects within the National Library of Medicine.

You will operate in a small federal contractor team, on-site in Bethesda, MD, 3–5 days per week, and pursue a Public Trust background check. The role requires deep Django expertise, data modeling, and end-to-end ownership of production systems, with fast iteration and robust testing in a federal

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience owning a production application end-to-end, including performance work on large datasets.
• Hands-on Django development experience with models, views, ORM, migrations and tests.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own an application's architecture, performance and data model; document tradeoffs.
• Lead production incident triage and root-cause analysis with rollback planning.
• Design data pipelines and ETL integrations; work with search/datastores like Elasticsearch or MongoDB.

Skills

5+ years experience

Production ownership

Debugging

Git proficiency

Python

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Docker

AWS

Angular/React/Vue

Job description

Quotient, Inc. is seeking a Senior Python/Django Developer to own production Django applications and lead performance initiatives for MeSH-related projects within the National Library of Medicine.

You will operate in a small federal contractor team, on-site in Bethesda, MD, 3–5 days per week, and pursue a Public Trust background check. The role requires deep Django expertise, data modeling, and end-to-end ownership of production systems, with fast iteration and robust testing in a federal