Backend Engineer

• Build and maintain production backend services and APIs in Python using FastAPI
• Implement retrieval workflows including RAG, embeddings, and vector search
• Work closely with engineers and stakeholders to make sound technical trade-offs
• Help keep systems clean, reliable, and easy to extend
• Debug and evaluate AI-generated code when it fails or is confidently incorrect

Senior Python Engineer building AI assessment systems for education technology startup DeweyLearn

Senior Python Engineer

Senior Python Engineer building Python/FastAPI backends and retrieval systems for DeweyLearn’s AI-powered education technology. Developing reliable production services with RAG, embeddings, and vector search.

• Lead technical strategy and execution for multiple teams and backend/platform product areas across cloud and on-premises deployments
• Ensure systems are scalable, performant, reliable, secure, and maintainable
• Own the technical roadmap and architectural integrity of backend services and data-processing workflows
• Translate requirements into implementation using Agile guidelines
• Improve engineering excellence through documentation, code review, secure coding, testing, observability, architecture standards, and CI/CD practices
• Partner with Product Management, UX, Architects, multifunctional teams, and customers
• Resolve complex production issues and support customer concerns
• Deliver solutions that improve security monitoring, threat detection, compliance, and incident investigations
• Mentor engineers and lead design sessions and architecture reviews
• Build deep knowledge of product architecture, deployment models, and real-world operating environments to advance platform evolution and customer value

Backend engineer leading Splunk Enterprise Security’s distributed SIEM platform architecture

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Backend engineer leading distributed systems and data-processing architecture for Splunk Enterprise Security’s SIEM platform. Driving scalable security monitoring, threat detection, and compliance capabilities.

• Develop and maintain Zanskar’s next-generation multi-physics well-targeting engine
• Design and deliver a reliable distributed compute system for scientific research teams
• Migrate and scale an existing system for reliability and growth
• Collaborate with geophysicists, geoscientists, seismologists and engineers on geothermal discovery challenges
• Teach distributed systems skills and learn geoscience and subsurface modeling concepts from peers

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer building distributed systems for Zanskar’s geothermal exploration technology

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer building distributed compute systems for Zanskar’s geothermal exploration platform. Scaling cloud workloads and multi-physics well-targeting software.

• Lead the strategy, architecture, and evolution of USAA’s enterprise AI platform
• Define scalable, secure, and compliant AI capabilities supporting generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics
• Partner with senior business and technology leaders to establish architecture standards, governance frameworks, and platform roadmaps
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to finalize strategy, requirements, measures, risks, and controls across multiple domains
• Coordinate with domain architects to create technology decisions, architecture artifacts, evolutionary strategies, and roadmaps
• Influence priorities, funding, and execution of architecture solutions across multiple domains and portfolios
• Assess domain applications with business and application owners to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and risks
• Advise executive-level business owners and provide assessment summaries to the CTO for board presentation
• Define and document architecture standards, principles, and policies; evaluate and approve or reject waivers
• Support Program Increment planning and troubleshoot Availability Command Center incidents involving multiple technology domains
• Mentor experienced architects, engineers, and IT colleagues and recommend mentoring opportunities to create team redundancy and backfill ability
• Lead technical design and definition of systems, services, and dataflows across multiple domains and portfolios
• Execute architecture practices and processes, ensuring timely deliverables and sponsoring enhancements
• Maintain external relationships with industry organizations, government boards, and vendors
• Pursue external eminence through certifications, conference presentations, technical papers, open-source contributions, or patents
• Identify, measure, monitor, and control risks in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures

Principal AI architect leading USAA’s enterprise financial-services AI platform

Principal AI Platform Architect

Principal AI architect leading USAA’s enterprise financial-services AI platform. Defining secure governance, architecture standards, and roadmaps for generative and agentic AI.

• Design, implement, and scale core infrastructure for reliability, performance, and security
• Build and improve developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and workflows
• Implement security-by-design controls that safeguard systems and data
• Serve as a technical leader across teams, coaching engineers and driving platform-strategy alignment
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to balance speed, cost, and resilience
• Own systems, services, and tooling that enable product teams to ship quickly and safely
• Contribute to customer-facing projects where platform capabilities are the product
• Define best practices and guide cross-functional initiatives
• Design and scale backend and infrastructure using Python, Django, AWS, and Terraform
• Influence technical direction, architectural standards, and engineering operations
• Work across internal tool development, infrastructure, and security
• Contribute wherever needed in a dynamic startup environment

Backend platform engineer scaling AWS logistics infrastructure at freight-planning company Optimal Dynamics

Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Platform

Senior Backend Software Engineer scaling AWS infrastructure and developer platforms. Building secure, reliable systems powering Optimal Dynamics’ intelligent transportation logistics technology.

• Design, implement, and unit test REST microservices using Java, Spring, and JUnit
• Develop Angular web applications that communicate with backend microservices
• Write complex SQL queries and perform data modeling
• Work collaboratively within a large Agile development team

Part-time Java/JEE Developer building secure enterprise software for SAIC’s mission technology programs

Part-Time Entry-Level Java/JEE Developer

Part-time Java/JEE Developer building REST microservices and Angular applications for SAIC’s defense and mission technology programs. Working with Java, Spring, SQL, and Agile development teams.

• Design and implement scalable Salesforce architecture solutions aligned with VA OMEGA program requirements
• Lead technical design sessions and provide architectural guidance across Salesforce platforms
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business transformation initiatives
• Define and enforce Salesforce development standards, best practices, and governance policies
• Evaluate and recommend integration patterns and middleware solutions
• Oversee data modeling, security architecture, and platform performance optimization
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to development teams
• Communicate architectural decisions and technical strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Work effectively and efficiently in a remote work environment

Salesforce Platform Architect supporting LTS’s federal IT and healthcare mission

Salesforce Platform Architect

Salesforce Platform Architect designing enterprise Salesforce solutions for LTS’s Department of Veterans Affairs program. Leading architecture, integrations, governance, security, and technical teams remotely.

• Troubleshoot problems involving trade-offs between budget, schedule and quality/performance of the service
• Articulate the business value and impact of technical and non-technical information and understand when to escalate issues
• Provide effective production support, including accurate problem identification, ticket documentation and customer/vendor dialogue
• Own and deliver automation and scripting of Oracle database activities and administration projects
• Ensure optimal performance and high availability of database systems and services while meeting or exceeding Service Level Objectives
• Work with multiple technology teams and facilitate collaboration across Development, Operational and non-technical stakeholders
• Provide technical leadership for large and/or complex business efforts
• Serve as a technical expert on database efficiency practices, especially for the Oracle Database platform
• Serve as a technical expert in HA, DR, Security, Database Installations and Database troubleshooting
• Support implementation of new DBMS software releases and plan and implement new features where appropriate
• Rapidly develop proficiency in new skills in a fast-paced environment
• Identify opportunities in the team's daily work and execute highly visible tasks
• Adopt automation practices across various technical platforms and domains
• Perform other duties as assigned

Oracle Database Engineer optimizing Huntington's banking database systems across corporate offices

Oracle Database Engineer

Oracle Database Engineer automating and supporting Oracle systems for Huntington's banking operations. Ensuring database performance, availability, security, and disaster recovery onsite at a corporate office.

• Develop and maintain best practices and knowledge-sharing frameworks for implementing Intapp products
• Drive consistency and quality across services delivery teams
• Collaborate with delivery teams across business units to design implementation plans spanning multiple product segments
• Create templates, fixed-scope packages, and technical improvements for common configurations and integration services
• Advise and consult on strategic or complex services projects
• Perform hands-on technical implementation work where needed
• Engage technical and business stakeholders to articulate architectural vision
• Guide Product and Engineering teams in defining client solutions
• Serve as the technical voice of services delivery across Support, Sales, Product Management, Services, and Engineering

Technical Architect shaping enterprise SaaS implementations for professional-services firms at Intapp

Technical Architect

Technical Architect shaping enterprise SaaS implementations for professional-services firms at Intapp. Advising complex engagements and guiding Product and Engineering solution design.

• Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers
• Create solutions that help meet the company’s regulatory needs
• Stay current with technology trends and experiment with and learn new technologies
• Participate in internal and external technology communities
• Mentor members of the engineering community
• Occasionally write or evaluate code
• Collaborate with digital product managers
• Deliver robust cloud-based solutions that create powerful experiences for millions of Americans
• Use programming languages, databases, container orchestration services, and AWS tools and services

Lead backend software engineering at Capital One, building cloud solutions for financial empowerment

Lead Software Engineer – Back End

Lead backend software engineering at Capital One, creating cloud-based solutions and regulatory technology. Guiding developers and using Java, Python, SQL, AWS, databases, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Own the backend architecture, including service boundaries, data model, event contracts, and integration layer design
• Design and implement Java 21 / Spring Boot microservices on Cloud Run for licensing, case management, payments, documents, and notifications
• Implement PostgreSQL (AlloyDB) persistence, including row-level data isolation and search indexing
• Build asynchronous event flows on Pub/Sub and Eventarc
• Implement scheduled and timer-driven processing with Cloud Tasks and Cloud Scheduler
• Author Cloud Workflows orchestrations for multi-service pipelines
• Direct integrations with external state and federal systems over REST, SOAP, SFTP, and webhooks
• Oversee payment flows, including hosted payment page integration and settlement reconciliation
• Own platform security and compliance outcomes for encryption and data isolation
• Set and enforce test coverage, code review, and CI/CD standards across the backend team
• Break down backend scope, sequence work, and report delivery status to the client technical lead and customer stakeholders
• Mentor engineers and support technical onboarding of new contractors
• Collaborate with the client technical lead, mobile and frontend engineers, and customer stakeholders from initial definition through final delivery

Lead backend engineer building a Google Cloud licensing and regulatory compliance platform

Lead Software Engineer – Backend Engineering, Integrations

Lead backend engineer architecting Java microservices and integrations for a Google Cloud state-government licensing platform. Owning security, payments, workflows, and delivery standards.

• Design and implement Java 21 / Spring Boot microservices on Cloud Run for licensing, case management, payments, documents, and notifications
• Implement PostgreSQL (AlloyDB) persistence, including row-level data isolation and search indexing
• Build asynchronous event flows on Pub/Sub and Eventarc
• Implement scheduled and timer-driven processing with Cloud Tasks and Cloud Scheduler
• Author Cloud Workflows orchestrations for multi-service pipelines
• Build integrations with external state and federal systems over REST, SOAP, SFTP, and webhooks
• Implement payment flows, including hosted payment page integration and settlement reconciliation
• Meet platform security and compliance requirements for encryption and data isolation
• Deliver unit and integration test coverage, participate in code reviews, and support CI/CD deployment of owned services
• Work closely with the client technical lead, mobile and frontend engineers, and customer stakeholders from initial definition through final delivery

Senior backend engineer building Java microservices and integrations for a US government licensing platform

Senior Software Engineer – Backend Engineering, Integrations

Senior backend engineer building Java microservices and payment integrations for a Google Cloud government licensing platform. Delivering secure, event-driven services with REST, SOAP, and SFTP connectivity.

• Build and ship backend features in the Django monolith, including document viewing, editing, embeds, exports, and greenfield projects
• Improve performance and reliability by optimizing database queries, endpoints, and caching layers
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver reliable experiences at scale
• Contribute to technical discussions and balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural evolution
• Conduct thoughtful code reviews, maintain solid test coverage, and focus on observability and performance

Senior Backend Engineer building scalable document systems for Scribe’s specialized-intelligence platform

Senior Backend Engineer, Agents

Senior Backend Engineer building scalable Python systems for Scribe’s specialized-intelligence platform. Improving document workflows, integrations, performance, and reliability from San Francisco.

• Design, develop, optimize, and modernize large-scale SQL Server databases and data platforms
• Analyze and refactor complex T-SQL, stored procedures, functions, and database logic
• Identify and resolve database performance bottlenecks through execution-plan analysis, indexing, query optimization, and database tuning
• Drive schema improvements and database modernization initiatives
• Develop migration strategies and automation that maintain data integrity and minimize disruption
• Implement and improve data replication and synchronization patterns
• Apply event-driven database patterns such as CDC, outbox patterns, and event publishing
• Engineer solutions for large, high-volume databases supporting critical business applications and partners
• Develop data pipelines and integration patterns across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and cloud data services
• Support OLTP and OLAP environments and optimize data movement
• Use AI coding assistants to accelerate development, analysis, debugging, and modernization
• Implement AI-powered approaches for stored-procedure analysis, schema documentation, and workflow automation
• Contribute to AI-native data infrastructure, including embedding pipelines, vector databases, semantic search, and retrieval systems
• Develop data and retrieval capabilities supporting AI applications and agentic workflows
• Evaluate emerging AI tools for engineering productivity and data platform capabilities
• Lead complex database engineering initiatives from problem definition through production implementation
• Provide technical guidance through code reviews, design discussions, and engineering standards
• Mentor engineers and contribute to database engineering practices
• Resolve high-impact production issues involving critical database systems
• Diagnose complex problems using logs, database metrics, resource utilization, execution plans, and observability data
• Determine root cause, coordinate technical teams, and drive issues through resolution
• Balance incident resolution with longer-term improvements

Principal Database Engineer modernizing WEX’s SQL Server and AI data infrastructure

Principal Database Engineer – SQL Server, AI Data Infrastructure

Principal Database Engineer modernizing WEX’s enterprise SQL Server platforms. Building AI-enabled data infrastructure, automation, and retrieval systems for critical business applications.

• Develop and maintain Python applications supporting insurance business processes, including Policy, Claims, Underwriting, and Billing systems
• Build REST APIs and backend services
• Integrate applications with internal and external systems using APIs and web services
• Develop data-processing and automation solutions using Python and SQL
• Work with relational databases and optimize SQL queries
• Develop and maintain applications using Django, Flask, or FastAPI
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Support cloud-based deployments and CI/CD processes
• Perform unit testing, debugging, production support, and performance optimization
• Apply secure development practices
• Deliver reliable applications and solutions aligned with insurance business requirements

Python developer building insurance applications and APIs for FormativGroup’s technology consulting clients

Python Developer – Insurance Experience

Python developer building insurance applications, REST APIs, automation, and integrations. Supporting cloud deployment, CI/CD, testing, and production systems for FormativGroup’s consulting clients.

• Set the architectural direction for the granular access control platform over a 1–3 year horizon
• Define APIs, shippable iterations, build-versus-buy decisions, technical debt strategy, and reliability scaling approach
• Lead the design and evolution of a sophisticated, scalable, reliable access control framework
• Lead complex, high-stakes initiatives spanning multiple teams
• Negotiate priorities, resolve dependencies, and influence peers without authority
• Ship and maintain platform capabilities in Go on Kubernetes across cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP
• Take ownership of the most complex and frequently used parts of the system
• Own production reliability, monitor SLOs, and address security and reliability risks
• Eliminate systemic failure modes and toil through architectural, deployment, and tooling improvements
• Partner with the product manager to assess customer needs and co-create the roadmap
• Balance long-term investments with customer requests and predictable delivery
• Partner with teams building on the platform and engage them early and often
• Work with security and compliance partners on reviews, audits, and customer commitments
• Track external developments in identity and access management, security models, and AI-agent access control
• Mentor engineers and interview and onboard new team members

Principal engineer building Chronosphere’s identity and access management platform

Senior Principal Software Engineer – Backend, Identity & Access Management

Principal engineer building Chronosphere’s identity and access management platform. Setting architecture, shipping Go/Kubernetes capabilities, and leading reliability and security initiatives.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain a suite of mainly Java applications
• Participate as an active member of an Agile development team
• Participate in all Agile ceremonies
• Update Jira tasks daily
• Contribute to continual improvement strategies
• Troubleshoot issues in production and non-production systems
• Learn new technical skills to meet project and customer needs
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to design, develop, and implement application development solutions for a government customer

Java developer delivering mission-critical federal government applications for Dev Technology

Java Application Developer

Java Application Developer building and maintaining mission-critical federal government applications. Collaborating in Agile teams across Java, Spring, Angular, and AWS technologies.

• Build and evolve scalable backend services in Go, focusing on system performance, stability, and maintainable engineering solutions
• Contribute to technical decisions around application architecture, infrastructure, and long-term backend evolution
• Develop clean, well-structured, testable code with strong documentation and engineering standards
• Participate in peer code reviews and provide technical feedback
• Work with complex data flows and backend components to ensure reliable processing and data integrity
• Collaborate with engineers on technical discussions, estimation, planning, and delivery within a Scrum environment
• Own assigned development activities and independently organize day-to-day work according to team priorities

Senior Golang Engineer building high-load betting backend systems

Senior Golang Engineer

Senior Golang Engineer building scalable, high-load backend systems for betting products. Developing Go services and distributed infrastructure focused on performance, reliability, and data integrity.

• Develop modern RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot
• Contribute as a full-stack developer and support DevOps, CICD, and cloud-enabled container services on-premises and in the cloud
• Assist with system design and business analysis, including server layout, availability, disaster recovery planning, and production deployments
• Assist with software and data design, including database schemas, storage, data mapping, data-storage efficiency, NoSQL/RDBMS considerations, flat-file transitions, API design, resilience, logging, and supportability
• Assist with software delivery and server architecture, table layouts, highly available and recoverable data resources, and performant data sources
• Assist with transition to Kafka, including use-case analysis, environment setup, enrichment, and transformations
• Assist with transitioning from physical/virtual machines to cloud-run environments and containers
• Implement API layers and integrate them into continuous delivery and continuous integration pipelines
• Collaborate with engineers and architects to create a common API layer between data sources and applications in an agile product model with two-week sprints
• Develop software in an agile DevOps environment with automated builds, deployment, integration, and testing
• Implement enterprise services and APIs under architectural and engineering leadership
• Deliver rapid, scalable, quality solutions that meet business needs
• Develop unit tests and automated test scripts
• Work with engineers, vendor partners, and business owners to ensure solutions meet business and customer needs
• Follow industry-standard agile software design methodologies and introduce new technologies and methods
• Maintain and evolve existing integration assets and systems
• Evolve processes and methods supporting Huntington’s integration development, implementation, and operation of key platforms

Junior Java Developer building enterprise APIs and payment infrastructure for Huntington

Junior Backend Developer – Java, Enterprise Payments, Credit Card

Junior Java Developer building enterprise APIs and payment infrastructure at Huntington. Developing Java/Spring services, cloud containers, Kafka integrations, and CI/CD automation.

• Participate directly in requirements elicitation and analysis sessions with business users, Business Analysts, application teams, and government customers
• Translate functional, technical, performance, security, and operational requirements into database and data architecture solutions
• Help stakeholders visualize application data entities, relationships, structures, interfaces, and processing requirements
• Evaluate technical alternatives and communicate architectural trade-offs
• Recommend architectures that satisfy current requirements while supporting anticipated growth and modernization
• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models
• Establish logical database architecture as the foundation for physical implementation
• Design scalable, high-performance relational database architectures
• Create and maintain database architecture diagrams using Erwin, Visio, or comparable tools
• Define schemas, relationships, constraints, partitioning, indexing, and storage strategies
• Apply normalization and denormalization techniques
• Establish database naming conventions, modeling standards, metadata standards, and architectural guidelines
• Design high availability, replication, disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and data retention solutions
• Evaluate relational and NoSQL database technologies
• Design and develop Oracle database solutions for enterprise applications
• Develop and review PL/SQL, SQL queries, stored procedures, packages, functions, triggers, DDL scripts, and database deployment scripts
• Create database objects and scripts supporting application releases
• Perform and support data migrations and database transformation activities
• Troubleshoot application issues involving database logic, scripts, scheduled jobs, and data processing
• Support application developers with database design and development decisions
• Document database deployment procedures for FDA database administrators
• Estimate database sizing, retention requirements, transaction patterns, and growth projections
• Analyze latency and throughput requirements
• Conduct workload analysis and capacity planning
• Monitor and evaluate database performance and identify bottlenecks
• Perform SQL and PL/SQL performance tuning
• Develop indexing, partitioning, caching, and query optimization strategies
• Design database solutions for cloud and hybrid environments
• Support modernization and migration of legacy on-premises databases to cloud platforms
• Evaluate managed database services, traditional platforms, and cloud-native technologies
• Support Infrastructure as Code and automated database provisioning
• Design architectures aligned with federal security and compliance requirements
• Recommend controls for encryption, access control, auditing, logging, monitoring, backup, recovery, and data protection
• Work with cybersecurity teams to meet applicable federal security controls
• Establish data architecture standards and support metadata, data dictionary, governance, lifecycle, retention, archival, and disposition activities
• Integrate database changes into application CI/CD processes
• Develop repeatable database deployment and rollback processes
• Automate database provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance
• Serve as a senior technical advisor and participate in architecture reviews and technical design sessions
• Communicate architecture concepts to government customers, business users, developers, infrastructure teams, security teams, and project leadership
• Collaborate with Business Analysts and application architects
• Mentor database administrators, developers, and engineers
• Review team database designs and implementation approaches
• Anticipate future data, performance, integration, and technology needs

Database architect modernizing FDA systems for government technology services company

Senior Database Architect/Senior Database Engineer

Database architect modernizing secure, mission-critical FDA applications for a government technology services company. Designing Oracle architectures, data models, cloud migrations, and automated deployments.

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