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Job Description

Are you an experienced Software Developer who has designed and developed mission-critical apps built with Python and Django?

Would you appreciate being part of an in-house dev team that doesn’t care about corporate hierarchy, but does care about your creativity and insight, allowing you to shape the future of core product offerings?

Off Duty Management is on a mission to make life better for those who have sworn to protect and serve us all. As a privately held, rapidly scaling company, we are innovating and delivering next-generation services that make life easier, better, and safer for law enforcement officers, the agencies who employ them, and the communities they serve.

We are seeking an experienced Software Developer to join our core product team, reporting directly to our CTO. Based in our offices in Katy Texas, or Remotely for those outside of the greater Houston area, this Developer will be instrumental in the overall plan and vision for future state initiatives and current state optimization. Strong Python and Django skills are essential.

The Software Developer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining system integrations that enable seamless communication between applications and services of a commercial-grade product. This position requires knowledge and expertise to design, code, test, implement, and support back-end services and APIs collaboratively.

Objectives of this role

• Build next-generation web applications and integrations
• Support full-stack web development using agile methodologies
• Ensure high-quality product delivery for clients

Restrictions

• No telecommuting
• No Agencies Please

Requirements

Responsibilities

• Developing synchronous and asynchronous messaging architectures
• Coordinating activities with other developers to ensure that integration projects are completed on time
• Formulating strategies and designing architectures for system integrations
• Ensuring that best practices in integration processes are employed in designing, implementing, and testing integrations
• Maintaining the integrity and smooth functioning of the company’s integration architecture and critical production endpoints
• Analyzing and improving current system integrations
• Identifying, debugging, and correcting system errors or architecture issues related to consuming integration endpoints or exposing integration endpoints
• Supporting software development activities to maintain a mission-critical software product
• Participating in code reviews and collaborating with team members to define and implement solutions or troubleshoot issues

Required skills and qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of Django, Python, and API development and consumption in a large-scale environment
• Software Development Lifecycle experience in an agile software engineering environment that supports development, unit testing, functional testing, integration testing, implementation, troubleshooting, and maintaining integrations for large-scale enterprises or commercial products
• Interpersonal skills, along with the ability to work in an agile global team environment
• Other duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management to support organizational goals and objectives

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a programmer or software developer of web applications, REST APIs, including their functionalities, protocols, and methods for accessing and interacting with data
• Understanding of full-stack web development and APIs that provide services to mobile applications

The interview process for this position will require a practical hands-on assessment of Django/Python.

Employer visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

About the Company

Off Duty Management is dedicated to supporting and protecting law enforcement agencies, their officers, and community businesses by offering a customizable, centrally administered no-cost solution that manages all aspects of off-duty programs and keeps agencies in full control mitigating risk and liability.

Contact Info

• Contact: Blake Sosnow
• E-mail contact: bsosnow@offdutymanagement.com
• Web: https://www.offdutymanagement.com