Job Details

Software Applications Developer (Python/API)
Baltimore, MD
Multi-year contract

Role Summary
Seeking Applications Programmers to support the development, enhancement, and maintenance of health benefit exchange and related systems. This role spans the full software development lifecycle-analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and implementation-focused on modern web applications and APIs built primarily with Python, with opportunities to contribute to automation and AI-assisted workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, development, testing, and maintenance of web applications and APIs using Python and modern development frameworks.
• Support development of RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Contribute to data processing, automation, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Collaborate with senior developers and business analysts to translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following secure coding practices.
• Develop and execute unit tests; assist with integration testing.
• Participate in code reviews and Agile ceremonies (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives).
• Support application troubleshooting and issue resolution in development and test environments.
• Adhere to all security, PMO, change control, work management, and service delivery policies, processes, tools, and methodologies.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience with Python programming.
• Experience developing or consuming REST APIs.
• Good understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar) and writing SQL queries.
• Familiarity with version control and work tracking tools such as Git and JIRA.
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative Agile team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Exposure to AI/ML libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, or TensorFlow/PyTorch.
• Experience integrating AI APIs (e.g., OpenAI, AWS AI services, Azure AI, etc.).
• Experience with automation scripting or workflow automation.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• Experience building or consuming microservices.
• Experience working with containerization tools such as Docker.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Basic knowledge of API security and authentication (OAuth2, JWT).
• Exposure to front-end technologies (JavaScript, React, or Angular).
• Experience working on data-driven or public-facing applications.
• Strong interest in AI-enabled application modernization in government systems.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.