Backend Engineer

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable GraphQL services and RESTful APIs.
• Define and enforce API standards, schema design best practices, and versioning strategies.
• Drive decisions around backend frameworks, tooling, infrastructure, and observability.
• Ensure systems are secure, performant, resilient, and maintainable.
• Oversee API lifecycle management, including documentation, testing, monitoring, and deprecation.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing backend engineering team.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product, Client Engineering, DevOps, Research, and Architecture teams to deliver aligned solutions.
• Own roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution for backend services.
• Establish engineering best practices for code quality, CI/CD, testing, and deployment.
• Manage technical debt proactively while balancing feature development.
• Drive observability, logging, metrics, and performance monitoring standards.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for backend services.
• Implement reliability practices such as SLIs/SLOs and capacity planning.
• Ensure compliance with security and data governance standards.

Senior Manager, Backend Services

• Create web-based applications to support continued company growth.
• Use proven methodologies in an environment that includes Visual Studio, MVC, Git, unit and integration testing, and a build server.

.NET Web Developer

• Independently design, build, and maintain features within our customer-facing web application, taking ownership from spec through deployment
• Architect and implement data integrations connecting our digital properties to marketing, analytics, and personalization platforms
• Partner with product, marketing, and analytics teams to translate requirements into robust, scalable solutions across the customer journey
• Lead and contribute to tag management, data layer architecture, and data collection workflows that power marketing and personalization strategies
• Lead and contribute to code reviews, drive technical discussions in sprint planning, and help raise the quality bar across the team
• Write clean, performant, and well-tested code; champion best practices and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence

Intermediate JavaScript Developer

• Develop tools that leverage generative AI along with our technology solutions to assemble functional demos of government digital services for a variety of government programs
• Design and implement example applications using our open source platforms that can be demonstrated to potential clients in bids and conferences
• Support project teams in using our platforms and iterate based on their feedback

Software Engineer – Gen AI, Typescript, Python

• design, build, and maintain backend services that power Caesars Digital real-money proprietary casino game clients
• developing secure, scalable server-side systems that integrate with the Caesars in house RGS and Caesars platform services to support game functionality
• partner closely with client engineers, math/design, platform providers, and compliance teams to ensure all games operate reliably and meet regulatory requirements
• sit within the internal Caesars game studio and play a critical role in enabling proprietary game development, launch readiness, and long-term live operations support

Lead Game Server Developer, iGaming

• Design and own database architecture for critical infrastructure and platform services, including PostgreSQL-backed internal platforms, Slurm accounting and operational databases, NetBox and infrastructure source-of-truth databases, custom internal applications and automation services, observability, inventory, and platform metadata systems, future database-backed control plane services.
• Define standard database patterns for high availability, replication, failover, backup and restore, point-in-time recovery, performance baselining, capacity planning, upgrade lifecycle management, access control and operational security.
• Establish database design standards for new internal platforms, including schema review, indexing strategy, query design, service ownership boundaries, and production readiness requirements.
• Operate and improve production database environments across PostgreSQL, MySQL, Percona, and adjacent systems.
• Own the lifecycle of database systems, including provisioning, configuration, version upgrades, replication topology design, performance tuning, backup validation, disaster recovery testing, decommissioning, documentation and runbook creation
• Troubleshoot and resolve production database issues involving query latency, lock contention, replication lag, storage I/O bottlenecks, connection exhaustion, poor indexing, schema design problems, database capacity constraints, backup or restore failures.
• Drive root cause analysis for database-related incidents and convert findings into durable engineering improvements.
• Serve as the senior database engineering owner for infrastructure-adjacent database platforms, including Slurm and NetBox.
• For Slurm environments, support and improve database architecture related to SlurmDBD, accounting data, job history, reporting queries, performance and retention strategy, database scaling, backup and recovery, long-term operational reliability
• For NetBox and source-of-truth systems, support PostgreSQL performance, database lifecycle planning, backup and restore validation, data integrity, schema-impact review, integration patterns with automation systems
• Partner with DevOps, Infrastructure, MLOps, and Platform Engineering teams to ensure database-backed systems are designed to scale as the environment grows.
• Build deep database observability beyond basic dashboards.
• Develop and maintain visibility into query performance, execution plans, index usage, replication health, locking behavior, buffer/cache efficiency, storage latency, connection pool behavior, OS-level database bottlenecks.
• Use tools such as PostgreSQL native statistics, MySQL/Percona tooling, Prometheus, Grafana, PMM, Query logs, slow query logs, eBPF/BCC or equivalent low-level profiling tools, Linux performance tooling.
• Create performance baselines and alerting standards for critical database platforms.
• Identify recurring database failure patterns and build preventive monitoring, automation, and operational guardrails.
• Create database automation patterns that can be integrated with existing infrastructure tooling.
• Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure Engineering to automate database provisioning, configuration standards, backup verification, health checks, replication checks, user and permission management, upgrade workflows, monitoring deployment, runbook-driven recovery procedures.
• Contribute database-specific modules, roles, or workflows to Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, or internal automation platforms where appropriate.
• Define production database readiness standards for new services before they are promoted into critical environments.
• Act as the technical lead for major database incidents.
• Own or support triage, root cause analysis, cross-team coordination, customer or stakeholder impact analysis, postmortems, corrective action plans, long-term remediation.
• Mentor L4 and L5 engineers on database operations, SQL troubleshooting, HA design, incident response, and performance analysis.
• Provide senior technical review for database-impacting changes across infrastructure and platform teams.

Staff Database Engineer

• You will work on cross-functional teams to build scalable systems for our government -- designing, implementing, and delivering services that millions of Americans depend on.
• You care deeply about working on technology that improves people’s lives, but don’t think technology is always the answer.
• You are passionate about building large-scale systems that are inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure, and you'll help set high standards for our teams in terms of simplicity, empathy, and accessibility.
• The Sr. Software Engineer role will be responsible for developing end to end systems for one of Nava's major government partners.
• The objective is to modernize an existing legacy enterprise platform to enable users to have more access to the programs and services that they need.
• This individual will be involved in everything, from strategy and planning through to post-production testing and support.

Software Engineer – Backend, Java

• Design, develop, and optimize complex T-SQL solutions including large-scale stored procedures, functions, and queries
• Optimize existing SQL code for performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Proactively identify and resolve query performance, indexing, and concurrency issues
• Support schema design, data modeling, and database changes for new features
• Collaborate with application engineers to design and improve data models, database logic, and access patterns
• Develop and maintain database objects, deployment scripts, and repeatable database changes aligned with application delivery needs
• Create and execute unit, integration, and regression tests for stored procedures and database logic to ensure correctness and performance
• Enforce security best practices, including Azure Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) authentication and authorization
• Support audits and compliance initiatives related to HITRUST, and SOC 2
• Lead database development standards, best practices, and documentation across the organization
• Support or contribute to Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) Data Lake architectures using Microsoft Fabric

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