Senior Backend Software Engineer / Technical Lead - Public Sector
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Friends From The CityPublic sector technology
Remote, United States only, Eastern Time business hoursContractLead
Salary120 USD per hour
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonSQLGitCI/CD
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Demonstrate experience architecting and owning production backend APIs.
- Bring strong backend development experience; Python is preferred, with Java, C#/.NET, TypeScript/Node.js, Go, or similar technologies also considered.
- Have hands-on experience deploying and operating backend services in AWS.
- Have strong RESTful API design and systems integration experience, including integrations with multiple systems, vendors, or external data sources.
- Have strong SQL and relational database experience.
- Have experience with automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, as well as performance/load testing and production performance optimization.
- Have hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and production incident response.
- Have experience with CI/CD, Git, and modern software development practices.
- Have experience implementing security controls for sensitive or regulated data.
- Hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or have equivalent professional experience.
- Provide a code sample or Git repository demonstrating relevant work; public repositories are preferred, and appropriate private repository access may be considered.
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop production-grade REST APIs and backend services.
- Integrate services with existing systems, vendors, and external data sources.
- Translate complex business and policy rules into maintainable application logic.
- Design SQL data models and integration patterns.
- Establish API contracts, versioning, error handling, retries, and resiliency patterns.
- Implement automated unit, integration, end-to-end, and load testing.
- Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and production observability.
- Optimize API performance and reliability under production load.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code; participate in troubleshooting and incident response.
- Conduct code reviews, guide engineers, and produce API specifications, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and technical documentation.
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