Backend Python Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Backend Python Engineer with Security Clearance
About the Team Here at BTI
360, we’ve built a culture that’s passionate about developing software engineers. Software doesn't build itself. People do.  In fact, teams of people do.  That's why our primary focus is on developing better craftsmen, better teammates, and better technical leaders.  By putting people first, we're not just giving our teammates more opportunities to grow, we're also raising the bar of the software we ship. BTI
360 previously has been voted 10 years in a row as a TOP Place to Work by the Washington Business Journal.  What you will do in this role:
• 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 Dev Sec Ops  pipelines, containers, and modern deployment tools to deliver software efficiently and reliably

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Security Clearance (TS/SCI w/ CI poly)
• Experience with source control (e.g. Git) and CI/CD pipeline tools such as AWS Code Build (preferred), Jenkins, Git Lab CI, or Git Hub Actions
• Experience designing and implementing scalable, maintainable, and OOP based software in a containerized cloud environment (AWS preferred) leveraging foundational services for computing, identity management, and networking.
• Experience developing backend services using Python and a modern web framework such as FastAPI (preferred), Flask, Django, or Chalice
• 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 “Desired Skills” (Nice-to-Haves):
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability stacks such as Prometheus/Grafana (preferred), Cloud Watch, or ELK/EFK
• Contributions to open-source libraries or community projects or personal projects
• Experience with search technologies such as Open Search (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 Dev Sec Ops  pipelines to deliver code
• Experience working with NLP libraries (e.g., spaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face Transformers) and integrating with commercial or custom generative AI services such as OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services, or proprietary models. Why BTI
360:
Competitive compensation, fully paid healthcare, 401k match (6%), and generous PTO.