Backend Engineer (Remote Opportunity)

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, and enterprise integration components supporting shared services and mission-critical applications.
• Implement business logic, service orchestration, and data access layers to support product functionality and workflow requirements.
• Build secure, scalable, and maintainable server-side solutions using approved architectures, development standards, and best practices.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, QA engineers, DevSecOps teams, and product stakeholders to support end-to-end solution delivery.
• Participate in technical design discussions, estimation activities, code reviews, troubleshooting, and production support efforts.
• Optimize backend service performance, reliability, monitoring, logging, and observability across multiple environments.
• Support data exchange processes, error handling, operational resilience, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Contribute to technical documentation, reusable components, development standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Absorb defect resolution, release support activities, and ongoing application maintenance efforts.
• Support Agile delivery processes and align technical work with sprint, increment, and release priorities.
• Contribute to team objectives and take on additional responsibilities as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in backend software engineering or enterprise application development.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful services, and API development principles.
• Experience with SQL, relational database technologies, and backend data processing patterns.
• Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns, authentication methods, and secure service-to-service communication practices.
• Experience using Git-based version control systems and CI/CD delivery workflows.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, analytical, and code quality skills.
• Understanding of secure coding standards and enterprise software development best practices.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, QA, DevSecOps, and product teams within Agile delivery environments.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government clearance.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with healthcare integrations, enterprise messaging standards, or healthcare data exchange workflows is a plus.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services, container platforms, and deployment automation tools is desirable.
• Experience supporting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) initiatives or federal government delivery programs preferred.
• Exposure to InterSystems IRIS, FHIR APIs, healthcare interoperability workflows, or integration platforms is a plus.
• Relevant cloud, Agile, or software development certifications are a plus.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision.
• 401k with Employer Match.
• PTO + Federal Holidays.
• Corporate Laptop.
• Training Opportunities.
• Remote Opportunity.