Senior Python Full Stack Developer

Senior Python Full Stack Developer

Reston, VA or Washington, DC (Hybrid)

Long-term contract role

Qualifications

Minimum Required Experiences:

• Experienced software engineer, a full-stack developer with Python and Flask expertise and strong software design skills.
• This would be the more experienced and skilled developer with software engineering experience that can guide the rest of the Clearinghouse developers with design reviews and also hands-on coding to develop reference code for others to adopt.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Full Stack Developer with expertise in UI frameworks: Angular, React, JavaScript, and backend in Python.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and strong verbal & written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong proficiency in Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Experience with RESTful Web Services and Web APIs using back-end technologies including Flask, Python, and Redshift.
• Ability to leverage Fannie Mae DevOps tool stack to build, inspect, deploy, test, and promote new or updated features
• Proficiency with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (Jenkins, Go) and experience with build tools such as Gradle, Maven, Nexus, etc.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes is a plus.
• Product Testing, including testing and evaluating software, usability testing, UAT, and using relevant product testing technology/frameworks such as Selenium.
• Skilled in the use of AWS technologies for building, deploying, and operating applications.
• Skilled in establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information
• Experience identifying measures, or indicators of system performance, and the actions needed to improve or correct performance to achieve desired outcomes

Skills needed:

• Deep experience in software engineering (not just coding look for architecture and design thinking).
• Fluency in Python and Flask, with examples of real-world projects.
• Full stack capability: backend focus, but comfortable across the stack.
• Strong communicator who can lead design reviews and explain technical decisions clearly.
• Mentorship mindset: has led or guided other developers in a team setting.
• Hands-on: not just a strategist this person should be writing reference code others can build on.
• Ask for examples of design decisions they ve made and how they influenced a team.
• Look for code samples or GitHub contributions that show clean, scalable architecture.
• Use a technical scenario to see how they d guide a junior developer through a problem.
• Validate their ability to balance leading with hands-on work.