Backend Engineer

• Responsible for overall management of the project/feature portfolio
• Formulate, organize, and monitor interconnected projects
• Identifies risks across projects & features, takes action to mitigate, and suggests adjustments to resource usage accordingly
• Responsible for coordinating monthly readouts on software capitalization status
• Provide business input to quarterly status readouts for management
• Oversee the feature management software implementation and continue to support and evolve its usage
• Partners with key business stakeholders from various channels to ensure knowledge of requests and relative priority
• Promotes ongoing customer engagement via various methods including monthly release readouts
• Participates in overall agile organizational assessment and advocates for alignment between Ascensus business units
• Fosters an appropriate culture of continuous learning and continued agile maturity
• Leads with a “inspect and adapt” philosophy across all interactions
• Responsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients.
• Assist with other tasks and projects as assigned

Program Analyst, Platform Architecture

• You will lead the Payments team
• Be accountable for payments working correctly, reliably, every single time
• Shape the roadmap and argue for product direction
• Lead a team of senior engineers
• Own the full payments product — front end and money mechanics
• Multiple integrated payment facilitators kept correct and uninterrupted
• Handle bugs, issues, and production support — end to end
• Engage in product planning and estimation

Lead Engineer – Payments Platform, Laravel

• Assist in the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, API-first solutions
• Apply AI-assisted development practices to accelerate solution delivery
• With guidance, convert well-defined concepts and ideas into solutions
• Assist in analyzing and modifying existing business applications and processes
• Diagnose and resolve routine problems in the maintenance and support of business applications
• Interact with client and technical teams to define requirements and develop solutions
• Provide input when reviewing new business application designs
• Collaborate with the business and management teams to develop efficient plans, processes, timelines and work required

Java Developer I

• Code at the speed of thought using AI-native workflows.
• Own the problems and understand customer needs.
• Engage in product thinking and shape user experience.
• Maintain open communication and manage risks early.
• Collaborate across multiple projects using AI for testing and iteration.

Senior AI-Augmented Laravel Engineer

• Own the design and implementation of complex backend services in Java and Spring Boot, from architecture through production rollout and operability.
• Drive the incremental migration of legacy functionality toward REST using the Strangler pattern.
• Design event-driven data flows (CDC pipelines, schema evolution, idempotent consumers) that keep distributed systems consistent under load.
• Make and document consequential architecture decisions: API contracts, data models, consistency and transactional boundaries, failure modes, and rollback strategy.
• Practice spec-driven development: define clear, machine-readable contracts and specifications (e.g., OpenAPI, schema definitions, RFC 9457 problem formats) before implementation, so that designs are unambiguous, reviewable, and consumable by both humans and AI agents.
• Use AI-assisted development tooling effectively and responsibly — leveraging coding assistants and agentic workflows to accelerate delivery while owning correctness, review, and the security implications of generated code.
• Own service availability and reliability: design for high availability, define and defend SLOs/error budgets, plan for graceful degradation and failover, and participate in on-call to keep critical payment paths healthy.
• Build observability in from the start, not as an afterthought — instrument services with metrics, distributed tracing, and structured logging (OpenTelemetry / Micrometer), and use that telemetry to drive alerting, SLOs, and incident diagnosis.
• Set the standard for code quality, testing, and operational readiness, and raise that standard through code review, design review, and technical mentorship of other engineers.
• Build for a payments environment: handle sensitive cardholder data responsibly, design with PCI DSS requirements in mind, and bake in audit logging and least-privilege access from the start.
• Diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues across the stack — query optimization, caching strategy, indexing, connection management, and latency under real production traffic.
• Partner with product, platform, and other engineering teams to break large initiatives into safe, shippable increments.

Senior Software Engineer, AI-Augmented Backend

• Lead the design and development of the CIAM architecture framework
• Collaborate with business, security, and IT teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Define the overall CIAM architecture and strategy aligned with business goals
• Ensure secure, scalable, and seamless customer access management
• Drive integration of CIAM solutions with existing and future systems
• Establish best practices and governance for identity management
• Evaluate and recommend CIAM technologies, platforms, and tools
• Define integration patterns for customer identity data across systems
• Develop security models, including authentication, authorization, and privacy controls
• Provide guidance on compliance with data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)
• Oversee proof-of-concept and pilot implementations
• Create architectural documentation, standards, and guidelines
• Mentor and guide development teams on CIAM best practices
• Participate in risk assessments and mitigation planning related to identity management

Chief Architect – Customer Identity Access Management (CIAM)

• 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, develop, and maintain backend services using TypeScript and NestJS.
• Architect and implement scalable APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems.
• Build and optimize high-throughput workflows that process large volumes of transactions and data.
• Design data models, service architectures, and integration patterns for complex distributed systems.
• Develop reliable asynchronous processing systems using queues, workers, and background jobs.
• Collaborate with Product and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Improve platform reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Implement observability best practices, including logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Contribute to API design, developer experience, documentation, and internal tooling.
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence long-term platform strategy.
• Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and code quality.
• Take ownership of projects from design through deployment and ongoing optimization.

Backend Software Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance object oriented code in our backend services.
• Develop public REST APIs using Java and internal gRPC APIs for inter-service and inter-system communication.
• Craft systems designs, lead design decisions, and drive alignment with other senior engineers.
• Write automated unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, concurrency tests, load/performance tests.
• Analyze existing systems to identify bottlenecks, tech debt, and implement scalability, and stability improvements.
• Implement automation for testing, monitoring, healing, and scaling applications, continuous integration and deployment to reduce time to market.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to define and implement new features.
• Conduct code reviews (comment, approve, seek revisions, merge), mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and actively promote engineering best practices.
• Dive deep and troubleshoot complex issues, devise fixes, author root cause analysis documents, and ensure lasting performance and reliability.
• Conduct objective and comparative analyses of competing technologies to advise the team of pros and cons of a technology solution.
• Maintain robust documentation (design docs, run books, change management docs, and readiness plans).
• Provide live-site support for production applications by monitoring systems, ensuring rapid incident resolution, and driving continuous improvement.
• Drive cross-team projects as a single-threaded-owner (STO) or tech lead, and actively unblock other engineers to make progress.

Senior Backend Engineer – AI Platform

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance server applications in C/C++ and Rust.
• Write message parsers and feed handlers for direct market data feeds from trading venues.
• Optimize existing codebase for high throughput (millions of messages per second, up to 40+ gigabits) and low latency (measured in nanoseconds).
• Implement tools and libraries for petabyte-scale data processing and analysis.
• Collaborate with the systems team to implement best practices for build, deployment, CI/CD.
• Implement monitoring and improve application uptime.
• Ensure smooth feature rollouts and updates.

Software Engineer, C++, Rust

• Immediately take the lead on the end-to-end performance testing, analysis, and tuning for the newly acquired Truelark platform.
• Architect, build, and maintain a scalable, automated performance testing framework deeply integrated into our CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and document reference implementations for performance testing critical path systems.
• Go beyond surface-level metrics to perform deep root cause analysis of performance bottlenecks.
• Partner closely with infrastructure and product teams to define, measure, and monitor SLOs for latency, throughput, and availability of critical services.

Senior Backend Engineer – Performance

Staff Software Engineer, AI – Backend

• 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

• Develop, maintain, and improve C#/ASP.NET backend systems
• Work as a team to architect the next version of our C# trading engine utilizing your expertise to enhance performance and scalability.
• Conduct architectural and technical reviews during the software development life cycle, providing valuable insights and recommendations for performance improvements.
• Apply best practices, design patterns, and cutting-edge technologies of web development and mobile development to create innovative and high-performing software solutions that people love to use.
• Collaborate with project teams and business owners to proactively analyze system performance, gather information on limitations, capabilities, performance requirements, and hardware/software interfaces.
• Develop specifications and resolve technical issues related to performance.

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