Custom Software Engineer

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.

• Technical Leadership & Architecture:
  Contribute to the design and development of robust, scalable, and secure backend systems and event‑driven APIs using FastAPI.
• Hands‑on Development & Code Quality:
  Participate in code and technical design reviews to ensure high standards for quality, performance, and security are met.
• Deploy AI Models:
  Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to integrate, containerize, and deploy AI/ML models (e.g., NLP, recommendation engines, generative AI) into production environments.
• Containerization & Orchestration:
  Engineer containerized applications for deployment on cloud platforms using Kubernetes.
• Asynchronous Processing & Distributed Systems:
  Design for scale using asynchronous processing and task queues such as Celery, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Kafka to handle long‑running or unreliable tasks independently from the main API.

• 4 to 7+ years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Python, with knowledge of the libraries and frameworks that make up the Python ecosystem.
  • Designing and implementing RESTful APIs using tools like FastAPI.
  • Asynchronous task processing tools like Celery and Rabbit
    
    MQ.
  • Strong working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for building and deploying scalable, cloud‑native applications.
  • Familiarity with distributed data orchestration and processing pipelines, using tools like Spark and Airflow.
  • Relational databases like Postgre
    
    SQL.
  • CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and deploying applications within the Linux ecosystem.
  • Optimizing resources across cloud deployments for cost and performance benefit.

• Active TS/SCI with Poly clearance is required.

The base pay range for this position in the following locations is $96,200—$192,300 USD:

• California
• Colorado
• Hawaii
• Illinois
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• New Jersey
• New York
• Washington
• Vermont
• The District of Columbia
• The city of Cleveland

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