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About Niyam IT (Niyam)

Niyam was founded in 2007 by a group of consultants who shared a unique vision: a technology company steeped in orderly process yet driven by passion and innovation. Over the following decade, we fine-tuned our craft and built an impressive track record of successful outcomes, securing our reputation as the go-to provider of smart, innovative solutions.

Today, Niyam is at the forefront of the industry, leading the way in crafting mission-critical technologies for Emergency Preparedness & Response, Natural Resource Management, Law Enforcement & Justice, Health IT, and Global Citizen Services.

What We Offer:

• Flexible Work Hours: Life doesn't always fit into a 9-to-5 schedule. We offer flexibility to help you manage your work-life balance effectively.
• Remote Work: Niyam understands the value of flexibility. We offer remote work.
• Career Growth: Niyam is not just a job; it's a career journey. We provide a supportive environment for your professional development and offer fully paid opportunities for training and advancement within the company.
• Great People: Our people are the blueprint of who Niyam is to the industry and community.
• Great Environment: Niyam fosters a great environment where innovation, collaboration, and personal growth thrive.
• Diversity & Inclusion: We believe in the strength of diverse perspectives. Your unique ideas are welcomed and celebrated every day at Niyam.

Join us in creating a workplace where innovation, diversity, and well-being thrive. Your journey at Niyam awaits. Apply today!

Niyam is seeking a Full Stack Python Developer to join our team in support of our work with a federal client. In this role, you will 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.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight.
• Act as a member of a product team to support teammates and collaborate with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success.
• Provide improvements to the product(s) being supported.
• Participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases.
• Support release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines.
• Analyze complex project-related problems and create innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components.
• Ensure product quality and timeliness of work, provide advice and guidance, resolve problems to meet objectives, and provide periodic performance reports.
• Provide mentoring to junior members of the team.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• US Citizenship with ability to obtain a Public Trust.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems, or a related discipline.
  
• At least seven (7) years ofrelated 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)
  
• Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management.
  

Preferred Skills:

• 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.
• Experience with SQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL Server databases a plus.
• DevOps experience/CI/CD pipeline.
  

Application Deadline:This position will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

Niyam is an Equal Opportunity ("EEO") Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, age, citizenship status, veteran or military status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, disability, unemployment status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state and/or local laws.If you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability to complete your application, or if you face challenges using our online application system and need an alternative way to apply, please reach out to us at +1 703.429.2450 or email hr@niyamit.com.