The posting
About Peregrine
Peregrine Advisors is a rapidly growing AI and data innovation hub helping government solve hard problems and deliver better outcomes. We work across the full lifecycle—from strategy and governance through architecture, engineering, analytics, AI, visualization, and training—for clients including the SEC, PCAOB, DDOT, and DCAA.
Our clients describe our support as “absolutely excellent” and our people as “instrumental to organization’s success.” Winner of the United Nations COP27 Datathon, our work has earned all Exceptional CPARS ratings, SEC Chair’s Awards, the SEC Vision Award, and recognition from FDA leadership.
We are also built differently. Peregrine is the first and only social enterprise organized as a Benefit Corporation and SBA 8(a) company focused on AI and data for government. We believe business success should create client value, social value, and opportunity for our people.
As we enter our next stage of growth, we need dependable, motivated, and skilled people who have a combination of intellectual curiosity and intellectual courage. With new clients, larger programs, and expanding responsibilities, the people joining Peregrine now will have the opportunity to help shape the company we become.
People first. Ownership always.
We solve problems through people, process, and technology—in that order. Technology matters, but people make transformation happen. That principle defines our culture. Trust and motivation come before competence. We hire people we can trust, who care deeply about what they do, take ownership, learn quickly, help one another, and refuse to walk past a problem because it belongs to someone else.
At Peregrine, you are not joining simply to fill a position. You are joining a team, taking ownership of a mission, and helping build a company. If that excites you, we should talk.
At Peregrine Advisors, you will build and support cloud-native Python services on Amazon Web Services (AWS). But we hire people, not seats. As the work evolves, you will move to where the hardest problems are.
This is a hybrid work arrangement based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and the commuting cadence varies by assignment. The initial engagement requires United States citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination.
Your first project
Your first project will likely have you taking user stories from refinement through production. Depending on the assignment, you may:
- Turn user stories into back-end features in Python on a cloud-native AWS stack.
- Build automated workflows with AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and related services.
- Build the application programming interfaces (APIs) and integrations that connect internal systems and commercial products.
- Write unit and integration tests, take part in code reviews, and fix the defects you find, all the way to production.
- Help automate the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, write secure and accessible code, and support your services once they run.
- Use artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted development tools in your daily work, and review and test everything they generate.
- Support quality development practices, including test-driven development and automated testing.
You deliver tested, working code you own through production, including the defects you find and fix. You automate business operations that replace manual checks, validations, and spreadsheet workflows, and you build deployment pipelines that make releasing services routine.
This is where you start, not the shape of your career here.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, including back-end work in Python and front-end work in React.js
- Bachelor's degree
- Familiarity with AWS cloud development, including AWS Lambda and Amazon S3
- Ability to turn a defined specification into working, tested code and own it all the way to production, applying object-oriented design, design patterns, and data modeling
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle
- Experience with NoSQL databases, for example MongoDB or DynamoDB
- Sound analytical judgment, with strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Experience delivering in an Agile framework such as Scrum or Kanban, with work tracked in a tool such as Jira
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to work directly with non-technical client stakeholders and turn business requirements into technical solutions
- The ability to estimate your assigned tasks and work efforts accurately
- Proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel
Preferred
- Hands-on delivery of production workloads on AWS, an AWS certification, or a Python certification
- Experience in federal information technology
- Client-facing consulting experience
- Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tools
- Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
Who you are
You care about what you build and judge it by whether it works for the people who rely on it. As priorities move, you move with them, and you learn a new tool or domain deeply enough to make judgment calls in it rather than follow instructions. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task.
What you bring
- A practical command of modern cloud development, with the range to build something new or make an existing system work better.
- The matching delivery habits, meaning version control, unit and integration testing, code review, secure coding, and accessibility.
- Plain-language communication about your work with the people who depend on it, explaining clearly and listening for what they need.
- The precision to work where accuracy and auditability are not optional.
You adapt your development workflow as AI tools evolve, using them to help implement, test, and improve the components you own. You give the tools clear context, review and test their output, and remain accountable for the code you deliver.
When we talk
Be prepared to discuss a difficult problem you worked through, the decisions you made, what happened, and what you learned.
Benefits
This is a full-time W-2 position with a salary of $120,000 to $140,000 per year.
Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance 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.
What we offer
You will work alongside developers, engineers, data scientists, architects, and strategists, on work ranging from strategy to implementation. We support your development across assignments and clients through extensive onboarding, sponsored professional certifications such as the Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) and AWS technical certifications, and rotation across functions to expand your skills and perspective. The mission is real, the problems are hard, and you own what you ship.
What we commit to
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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