Software Engineer; Python, AWS

Peregrine Advisors is a rapidly growing AI and data innovation hub helping government solve hard problems and deliver better outcomes. We work across the full lifecycle—from strategy and governance through architecture, engineering, analytics, AI, visualization, and training—for clients including the SEC, PCAOB, DDOT, and DCAA.

Our clients describe our support as “absolutely excellent” and our people as “instrumental to organization’s success.” Winner of the United Nations COP
27 Datathon, our work has earned all Exceptional CPARS ratings, SEC Chair’s Awards, the SEC Vision Award, and recognition from FDA leadership.

We are also built differently. Peregrine is the first and only social enterprise organized as a Benefit Corporation and SBA 8(a) company focused on AI and data for government. We believe business success should create client value, social value, and opportunity for our people.

As we enter our next stage of growth, we need dependable, motivated, and skilled people who have a combination of intellectual curiosity and intellectual courage. With new clients, larger programs, and expanding responsibilities, the people joining Peregrine now will have the opportunity to help shape the company we become.

We solve problems through people, process, and technology—in that order. Technology matters, but people make transformation happen. That principle defines our culture. Trust and motivation are the foundational pillars of delivery on which our skills stand. We hire people we can trust, who care deeply about what they do, take ownership, learn quickly, help one another, and refuse to walk past a problem because it belongs to someone else.

At Peregrine, you are not joining simply to fill a position. You are joining a team, taking ownership of a mission, and helping build a company. If that excites you, we should talk.

At Peregrine Advisors, you will build the Python backend services and secure APIs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that a federal agency relies on to process its filer applications. But we hire people, not seats. As the work evolves, you will move to where the hardest problems are.

This is a hybrid work arrangement based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and the commuting cadence varies by assignment. The initial engagement requires United States citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination.

Your first project will likely have you building the backend that powers how a federal agency processes its filer applications. Depending on the assignment, you may:

• Build the services and secure application programming interfaces (APIs) that move each submission through document processing, validation, and decisioning.
• Develop backend services and REST APIs in Python and FastAPI that turn a manual, document-heavy process into one that is fast, secure, and automated.
• Build the cloud behind them on AWS:
  Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, and S3.
• Keep the data in PostgreSQL and handle identity and access the right way.

You help deliver a secure, automated backend that carries filings from submission to decision, built for a regulated federal environment where security and auditability are not optional.

This is where you start, not the shape of your career here.

• 4+ years of software development experience in Python
• Bachelor's degree
• Hands‑on experience building secure REST APIs on AWS with FastAPI or a similar framework
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience implementing authentication and access control
• Experience with clean, automated software delivery
• Proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel

• Experience with OAuth and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Experience building…