Junior Python Developer Internship Jobs in Ashburn, VA

The Amivero Team

Amivero’s team of IT professionals delivers digital services that elevate the federal government, whether national security or improved government services. Our human-centered, data-driven approach is focused on truly understanding the environment and the challenge, and reimagining with our customer how outcomes can be achieved.

Our team of technologists leverage modern, agile methods to design and develop equitable, accessible, and innovative data and software services that impact hundreds of millions of people.

As a member of the Amivero team you will use your empathy for a customer’s situation, your passion for service, your energy for solutioning, and your bias towards action to bring modernization to very important, mission-critical, and public service government IT systems.

Special Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass the background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to:
  • 3 Year check for felony convictions
  • 1 year check for illegal drug use
  • 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud

The Gist

Amivero is currently looking for a Full Stack Developer with agile methodology experience to join our team supporting client located in Northern Virginia! Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the government.

As a member of the team, you will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. Agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.

Programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team is crucial. You should have worked with or have a strong interest in agile software development practices and delivering deployable software in short sprints. 

• Serve as an Agile Scrum team member providing software development and maintenance for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles. Responsible for activities associated with delivery of software solutions associated with customer-defined systems and software projects by working in close collaboration with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.

  • Designing, developing, and implementing custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight
  • Acting as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success
  • Providing improvements to the product(s) being supported
  • Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases
  • Supporting release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines
  • Analyzing complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components
  • Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports
  • Providing mentoring to junior members of the team

• Required: 

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass the background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to:
  • 3 year check for felony convictions
  • 1 year check for illegal drug use
  • 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud
  • College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline.  Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of degree
  • Professional Experience: at least seven (7) years related technical experience, with software design, development and implementation in a containerized Linux environment
  • Demonstrable professional experience with our tech stack: Python, PostgreSQL, Java Spring Boot, Angular, microservices architecture, and AWS.
  • In-depth knowledge of both the Angular Framework (TypeScript, Angular Material, state management), as well as experience creating RESTful services using Java and spring-boot.
  • Expert experience in the following programming languages/libraries: Python, Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
  • Knowledge of creating Angular components, services, good understanding of state management and UI performance
  • Experience developing and maintaining Python applications, APIs, automation scripts, or backend services in an enterprise environment, including familiarity with common Python frameworks and libraries.
  • Creating reusable libraries, develop interactive and responsive interfaces, implement complex solutions, encouraging quality code through conducting reviews/leading tests
  • Implement new features by transforming mockups into fully functional user interfaces integrated with API enabled microservice built on Spring Boot based backend
  • Demonstrated professional experience with developing SPA (Single Page Application) using a modern UI framework (Angular and Angular Material), backed by RESTful services
  • Bridge the gap between user interface design and technical implementation
  • Passion for user experience and user-centric development
  • Continuously research new and best coding practices
  • Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
  • Strong communication skills that include leading design-related conversations, ability to build and nurture good relationships and foster an environment for collaboration
  • Object oriented design and development (OODD) expertise, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
  • Experience with source code control systems and concurrent development workflows (Git preferred)
  • Experience with SQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL Server databases a plus.
  • Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management.

  
  Desired:

  • Technical Certifications, such as AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, OCP Java, etc.
  • Understanding of system architecture concepts and experience with system design (defining service building blocks, data flow, building systems with scalability, reliability, and maintainability in mind).
  • Additionally, familiarity with any of the following highly desirable: ETL tools, messaging tech such as Kafka, application security, automated testing, UML, state-management angular libraries such as NGRX or NGXS
  • DevOps experience/CI/CD pipeline.

EOE/M/F/VET/DISABLED

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Amivero complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.