Senior Python Developer; AI & Conversational Systems

Title:

Senior Python Developer (AI & Conversational Systems)

Description of Work:

• Deep Python expertise, hands‑on experience integrating large language models (LLMs) into production systems, ability to operate independently in a fast‑paced, highly collaborative environment.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Python backend systems for a public‑facing AI chatbot.
• Integrate and manage LLMs, including prompt design, context management, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, and tool/function calling.
• Ensure chatbot reliability, safety, and compliance through moderation, guardrails, and abuse prevention.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to support production reliability and rapid issue resolution.
• Lead code reviews and enforce best practices to maintain high engineering standards.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployments, and infrastructure decisions supporting high availability.
• Evaluate and adopt new AI technologies and architectural improvements to support long‑term scalability.
• Be proactive, adaptable, and highly engaged communicating clearly, raising risks early, and collaborating effectively to deliver high‑quality code at speed.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.

Basic Qualifications:
Minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed.

• 10 years of experience building, scaling, and maintaining production‑grade JavaScript / Python applications.
• Deep expertise building, scaling and maintaining production‑grade Python applications.
• Strong Python backend engineering experience including API design, asynchronous programming, and system integration.
• Proficiency in managing and querying both relational databases and vector databases for semantic search.
• Hands‑on experience working with AI and LLMs in production environments.
• Solid understanding of key AI/LLM concepts, including prompt engineering, RAG, AI agents, context management, evaluation and structured outputs.
• Understanding of how to measure LLM performance using frameworks like Ragas, Tru Lens, or Arize Phoenix to evaluate faithfulness, relevance, and safety.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and make sound architectural decisions in ambiguous environments.
• Strong communication skills with a proven ability to be vocal, engaged, collaborative, proactive, and adaptable within cross‑functional teams.

Net Vision Resources, Inc. (NVR) is a fast growing, IS9001, IS20000, CMMI DEV/2, MBE certified technology consulting and software development firm, based out of DC Metro area.