Software Engineer Backend Developer

Job Tile: Software Engineer Backend Developer

Location: Austin, TX, USA | Onsite

Contract 1099

The Role:

What is the main purpose of this role? Will be responsible for building, designing, maintaining some services.

We are looking for a strong candidate for a Backend Developer position (Mid to Senior Software Engineer) who will play a key role in transforming the clients product architecture. This engineer will collaborate with stakeholders to build new functionality, design systems, fix bugs, and continuously enhance the user experience. The ideal candidate is proactive, hands-on, and a team player with a strong sense of ownership and a drive to deliver high-quality results. They will be involved throughout the product lifecycle from ideation and development to deployment and ongoing optimization. They will report to a Sr. Consultant.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and testing of the systems and services
• Contribute to the technical architecture and design of the product
• Translate product requirements into user stories and scalable technical solutions
• Deliver reliable, scalable services in a production environment
• Propose new ideas and contribute to innovation initiatives
• Collaborate with project leads, product managers, and fellow engineers as well as functional (business and back office) teams
• Participate in sprint planning, code review, development, backlog grooming
• Will have to follow data security, compliance best practices

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 3-4+ years of hands-on experience with Java or Kotlin and event-driven architecture
• 5-7+ years of programming experience, ideally with modern tech stacks
• Experience with Kubernetes and service-oriented architectures (100+ services in production)
• BE stack and database experience: Proficiency in Java/Kotlin/DynamoDB
• Cloud platform experience:
  -AWS
  -Temporal (nice to have)
• CI/CD pipelines experience: GitLab
• Background in building SOA or microservices-based applications
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a track record of seeing projects through from start to finish
• Passion for solving complex problems and delivering impactful features
• Comfortable working in a collaborative environment with code reviews and shared design processes
• Will be translating business requirements to technical requirements? Will mostly be implementing stories
• Will follow specific design patterns, best practices or concept requirements? Yes
• Agile environment
• Testing experience required