Mid-Level Developer

Mid-Level DeveloperSoftware Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Mid-Level Developer for a contract assignment with one of our premier Regulatory clients in the DMV area. This role is part of a technical team building the next generation of document services that leverage OCR and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies to provide document transformation capabilities across the enterprise.Responsibilities:Design and develop scalable backend services that power intelligent document ingestion, extraction, and transformation workflowsContribute to building systems where autonomous agents coordinate multi-step document processing pipelines — from raw document intake through structured data extraction and downstream delivery.Works under general supervision and will develop, test, debug, and document software components as part of a collaborative software engineering effort.This role focuses on backend development using Java and Python to deliver reliable, scalable services that integrate traditional software engineering with modern AI/ML capabilities.Review and analyze process, system, and/or data requirements and specifications.Design and implement backend components for one or more areas (subsystems) of a project, product, or program.Build, test, deploy, and document software components for project and program-level solutions.Participate in the creation of software engineering strategies that help identify and mitigate risks.Participate in peer review of code, requirements, specifications, and software.Document and communicate development status in a timely manner including metric reporting.Collaborate in the resolution of defects.Contribute to internal process improvement initiatives and provide feedback on processes.Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls.Ensure all work products meet or exceed organizational standards.Demonstrate organizational values through collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of the organization's mission.Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team to deliver high-quality enterprise softwareExperience supporting applications in areas such as text analytics, enterprise search, enterprise profiles, and enterprise alertsParticipation in production releasesActive involvement in Scrum activities including story refinement, sprint retrospectives, daily standups, and code reviewsRequired Skills:Must bring a minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience and be conversant with Model Context Protocol (MCP), agentic tools, and AI-driven orchestration patterns.RESTful API design and developmentAWSCore services: EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, API GatewayQuickSight for dashboards and data visualizationCloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshootingIAM, Security services, VPC networkingInfrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)Programming & DevelopmentJava/Groovy, Spring Boot,Python, FastAPIFrontend. Either of Node.js, Angular, React, Vue.jsWriting unit and integration testsRESTful API design and microservices architectureCI/CD pipelines (GitLab exposure preferred)Databases/SQL AWS PostgresAgentic AI & MCP Experience:Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for connecting AI models to external tools, data sources, and services in a standardized wayExperience building or integrating tool-use frameworks that allow agents to invoke APIs, query databases, read/write files, and orchestrate downstream servicesFamiliarity with prompt engineering, context management, and token optimization for production LLM workloadsPreferred Skills:Experience with OCR technologies (e.g., AWS Textract, Tesseract, etc)Experience with LLM frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Bedrock AgentsFamiliarity with vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patternsExperience with message queues or event-driven architecturesContainerization (Docker, Kubernetes)Experience with NoSQL databasesAWS certificationBy applying for a job with SGA, you agree to allow SGA to process your application for this and future opportunities in accordance with our Privacy Policy. 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