Software Engineer

Peregrine Advisors; Washington; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) match with immediate vesting

Unlimited PTO

Sponsored certifications

Job summary

Peregrine Advisors in Washington, DC area is seeking a backend engineer to build the services and secure APIs that power federal filings, moving submissions through processing, validation, and decisioning. You will implement Python and FastAPI on AWS, leverage PostgreSQL for data, and design authentication and access control with auditable delivery in a regulated environment.

This hybrid role requires US citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust, with opportunity to contribute to

Qualifications

• Strong Python and hands-on experience building secure REST APIs (FastAPI or similar) on AWS.
• The backend fundamentals behind them: PostgreSQL, authentication and access control, and clean, automated delivery.
• The judgment to build in a regulated federal environment where security and auditability are not optional.

Responsibilities

• Backend services and REST APIs in Python and FastAPI that power a federal agency process: submission through processing, validation, and decisioning.
• Cloud-based on AWS—Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, S3, with PostgreSQL for data and identity handling.
• Ensure secure, auditable delivery and contribute to expanding capabilities over time.

Skills

Python

REST APIs

AWS

Tools

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Authentication

Job description

Your first assignment

Your first assignment is to build the backend that powers how a federal agency processes its filer applications: the services and secure application programming interfaces (APIs) that move each submission through document processing, validation, and decisioning. 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

• Backend services and REST APIs in Python and FastAPI that turn a manual, document-heavy process into something fast, secure, and automated.
• The cloud behind them on Amazon Web Services (AWS): Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, and S3, with PostgreSQL for the data and identity handled the right way.
• In time, the firm itself: new capabilities, tools, and lines of business you help spin up.

Who you are

You have a hacker's mindset: you would rather ship a working prototype tonight than a perfect plan next week. You have built backends and APIs that hold up in production, and you move at the speed of the tools, not the clock. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat, quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task.

What you bring

• Strong Python and hands-on experience building secure REST APIs (FastAPI or similar) on AWS.
• The backend fundamentals behind them: PostgreSQL, authentication and access control, and clean, automated delivery.
• The judgment to build in a regulated federal environment where security 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 in 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.

What we offer

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision; a matched 401(k) with immediate vesting; unlimited paid time off; and sponsored certifications. Beyond that, 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.