Python Developer - LOCALS's ONLY
Contract W2
Contract Independent
7 Months
No Travel Required
On-site
Depends on Experience
CogniSoft Technologies
Fitment
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Job Details
Skills
- Continuous Integration and Development
- Authentication
- Business Rules
- Caching
- Collaboration
- Configuration Management
- Continuous Integration
- Documentation
- Data Modeling
- Data Security
- Database
- Defect Analysis
- API
- Acceptance Testing
- Application Support
- Performance Tuning
- Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Microsoft Azure
- PostgreSQL
- Artificial Intelligence
- DevOps
- Energy
- Science
- Scripting
- Quality Assurance
- Regression Analysis
- Release Management
- Scalability
- OOD
- Production Support
- Software Development
- Sprint
- Management
- Productivity
- Python
- Software Design
- Sustainability
- System Integration Testing
- SQL
- Technical Writing
- Testing
- User Experience
Summary
Python Developer
Location: Washington, DC 20433 (Hybrid - ROLE IS 4 DAYS ON SITE)
Duration: 7+ months
Job Description
- Design, develop, enhance, and support modular Python services and REST APIs for the EDGE V4 Calculation Engine.
- Translate validated building science formulas, rules, assumptions, and dependency flows into accurate, maintainable, and testable Python components.
- Develop and integrate calculation capabilities for energy, water, materials, embodied carbon, baseline standards, scenario simulation, explainability, anomaly management, and cost-related functions as prioritized by the product backlog.
- Build reusable calculation libraries, data models, validation rules, configuration services, and version-controlled datasets using Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, SQL, and PostgreSQL or approved equivalent technologies.
- Integrate calculation services with the EDGE V4 application through well-defined API contracts, structured inputs and outputs, secure authentication, and reliable error handling.
- Optimize calculation performance, database queries, caching, asynchronous processing, and service scalability for global usage and high-volume calculation scenarios.
- Create and maintain automated unit, integration, regression, and API tests using PyTest or approved equivalent frameworks; support system integration testing and user acceptance testing.
- Maintain technical documentation, API specifications, calculation traceability, data dictionaries, setup guides, deployment notes, and support runbooks.
- Participate in solution design, code reviews, backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, release planning, deployment, defect resolution, and post-deployment support.
- Implement production-grade logging, monitoring, auditability, exception handling, retries, configuration management, and operational support procedures.
SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Minimum 8 years of professional Python development experience delivering secure, scalable, and production-quality backend applications or calculation services.
- Strong proficiency in moder Python, object-oriented design, modular architecture, reusable libraries, type validation, dependency management, and coding standards such as PEP 8.
- Hands-on experience developing REST APIs using FastAPI or an approved equivalent framework, including request validation, API versioning, authentication, structured error responses, and OpenAPI documentation.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and PostgreSQL, including data modelling, queries, functions, indexing, transaction management, and performance optimization.
- Proven ability to identify opportunities for engineering automation and productivity improvements using AI, Generative AI, intelligent agents, scripting, and developer tooling; experience delivering practical solutions that reduce manual effort, improve code quality, accelerate testing, and enhance team effectiveness.
- Experience with Pydantic, PyTest, importlib, caching, configuration management, and development of reusable Python utilities and packages.
- Experience translating complex formulas, business rules, dependency graphs, or scientific models into deterministic, traceable, and testable software components.
- Experience designing automated unit, integration, regression, and API tests, with disciplined defect analysis and test evidence.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure services, App Service or approved container platforms, Azure DevOps, continuous integration and deployment pipelines, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and application support.
- Strong understanding of secure software development, data protection, auditability, resilience, performance, and production support practices.
- Working knowledge of building science, energy and water efficiency, materials, embodied carbon, cost calculations, or sustainability standards is preferred.
- Ability to collaborate with product owners, architects, building science specialists, quality assurance teams, user experience teams, DevOps teams, and business stakeholders.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
- Dice Id: 10527831
- Position Id: 9124987
- Posted 18 hours ago
Company Info
CogniSoft Technologies focuses on providing niche Business Intelligence & Data Analytic solutions to businesses across various industries. We are Tableau Alliance Partners. We are also an SAP certified Company.
We are a team of experienced, dedicated, hardworking, and innovative professionals who have had proven their expertise in different business verticals such as Banking and Financial Industry, Healthcare, Supply chain, Insurance, Software Development, IT consulting, Business consulting etc.
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