Contractual Junior Python Developer Jobs in Ashburn, VA

Peregrine Advisors is a firm founded on a simple conviction: the best solutions come from the people closest to the problem, given real ownership and the tools to deliver. We are a data and technology innovation hub and a Benefit Corporation working at the center of the federal government's mission to deliver for client stakeholders and the US public, looking for highly motivated contributors who thrive when trusted to own a hard problem and equipped to deliver the solution.

Your first assignment will likely include contributing to refinement and execution of user stories by:

• building AWS cloud-native, event-driven serverless application workflows using Lambda and Step Functions;
• integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products with broader, internally developed system frameworks;
• developing internal or external API interconnections to facilitate modern system architectures; or
• building the data and document pipelines that turn manual, paper-heavy process into something automatic

Adaptability and an appetite for learning new concepts, systems, and tools is what will move you forward fastest here.

The work is real, hard, and it matters. It is also where you start, not the shape of your career here: we hire people, not seats, and we move our best to where the hardest problems are.

• Modern, cloud-native systems that provide exceptional business value through streamlined, automated operation.
• Working, tested code, reviewed by people who explain what to change and why, and the defects you find and fix along the way: the fastest ways to get good at this.
• Your part of the automation that replaces manual process, growing as you show you can carry more.
• Deployments that are routine: services released through pipelines rather than through events.
• AI-assisted development as standard practice: learning tools like Amazon Q Developer across the lifecycle.
• In time, the firm itself: new capabilities, tools, and lines of business you help spin up.

You are highly motivated to develop your professional skills as both a technical and business problem solver, working to combine knowledge across domains to deliver high-impact business solutions. You ask when you are stuck rather than guessing, you take feedback as the fastest route forward, and when priorities shift, you shift with them. You communicate clearly, adapt across roles and clients, and care about creating public value. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task.

• A foundation in modern cloud development and a real appetite to go deeper.
• The delivery habits, or the willingness to build them fast: version control, unit and integration testing, code review, secure coding, and accessibility.
• The communication to say clearly what you have done, what you are stuck on, and what you need.
• The precision to work where accuracy and auditability are not optional.

U.S. citizenship (this initial engagement may be staffed by U.S. citizens only) and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination. This is a hybrid role based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and it requires commuting into DC regularly. Everything else, the years, the certifications, the specific tools, we ask in the application and get into during the interview.

A high-performing team of developers, engineers, data scientists, architects, and strategists solving complex, real-world problems, with work that runs from strategy formulation to hands-on implementation. We develop people across roles and clients, with extensive onboarding and sponsored training and professional development. And Peregrine has been a Benefit Corporation from day one: public value is built into the work itself, not bolted on afterward. Work worth your best years.

As a Benefit Corporation, our commitment runs three ways: real, measurable value for our clients; government that works better for the public; and a team that makes everyone in it better.

We hire people who want to help build the firm, not just work at it. If that is you, apply.

Peregrine Advisors is an equal opportunity employer.

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Requirements

3+ years of software development experience

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Working-level command of Python

Experience with modern languages and frameworks, and with version control

Familiarity with cloud development on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) concepts

Ability to turn a defined specification into working, tested code and own it through to production

Preferred

Amazon Web Services exposure or certification

Federal information technology experience

Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling3+ years of software development experience

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Working-level command of Python

Experience with modern languages and frameworks, and with version control

Familiarity with cloud development on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) concepts

Ability to turn a defined specification into working, tested code and own it through to production

Preferred

Amazon Web Services exposure or certification

Federal information technology experience

Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling

Basic proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision with the employee premium fully paid and half of dependent premiums; employer-paid life, accidental death, and short-term and long-term disability insurance; a 401(k) matched 100% up to 4% of salary, vesting immediately; unlimited paid time off; and sponsored professional certifications and continuing education.