Backend Python Engineer - Polygraph Required

About the Team

Here at BTI360, we’ve built a culture that’s passionate about developing software engineers. Software doesn’t build itself—people do. Our primary focus is on developing better craftsmen, better teammates, and better technical leaders. By putting people first, we give teammates more opportunities to grow while raising the bar of the software we ship. BTI360 has been voted a TOP Place to Work by the Washington Business Journal for ten consecutive years. We are a fast‑moving, fun team building a system from the ground up with solid cloud‑native architecture, a powerful CI/CD pipeline, and modern UI design principles that enable users to process tasking in half the time. This role supports a high‑impact mission reimagining the U.S. government’s terrorist screening process.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with teammates and stakeholders in a Lean Agile environment to build mission‑critical production applications focused on data discovery and analysis.
• Participate in code reviews, system design discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Leverage modern build tools, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure quality and delivery speed.
• Design, implement, and test backend services and APIs using reactive programming concepts for production applications.
• Integrate with cloud services and data platforms to expose high‑value data through secure, performant interfaces.
• Leverage DevSecOps pipelines, containers, and modern deployment tools to deliver software efficiently and reliably.

Minimum Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph at time of application.
• Experience developing backend services using Python and a modern web framework such as FastAPI (preferred), Flask, Django, or Chalice.
• Experience with source control (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipeline tools such as GitHub Actions (preferred), GitLab CI, AWS CodeBuild, or Jenkins.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable, maintainable, OOP‑based software in a containerized cloud environment (AWS preferred) leveraging foundational services for computing, identity management, and networking.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as PyTest (preferred) or unittest.
• Experience with Python project management, dependency management tools, and build tools such as poetry (preferred), make, uv, pip, or conda.
• Familiarity with API standards such as REST and HTTP, message‑driven architectures, persistent storage layers, and distributed systems.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills necessary to perform job duties and collaborate with team members.

Preferred Skills

• Contributions to open‑source libraries, community projects, or personal projects.
• Experience with search technologies such as OpenSearch (preferred), Elasticsearch, or Solr.
• Experience working with streaming or event‑driven architectures such as SNS/SQS (preferred), Kafka, Kinesis, AWS Step Functions, or Event Bridge.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and how to leverage DevSecOps pipelines to deliver code.

Benefits

• Fully paid healthcare premiums for full‑time teammates.
• Competitive salaries and performance bonuses.
• Career development and in‑house training.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Up to 5 weeks PTO plus 2 weeks of federal holidays.
• 401(k) dollar‑for‑dollar matching up to 6% annually – vested immediately on day 1.
• Social events (happy hours, golf tournament, BTI360 Family Festival, and more).
• Commitment to fairness and inclusion with a supportive, inclusive culture.