Backend Engineer

Position Title: Backend Engineer
Location: Vienna, VA / Pensacola, FL (Hybrid)
Clearance Requirements: None
Position Status: Contract
Pay Rate: $60 - $65 per hour

Position

Description:

We are seeking a talented Backend Engineer to join a digital engineering team responsible for building secure, scalable, and high-performing backend services that power modern mobile and online banking experiences.

In this role, you will design, develop, test, integrate, and maintain enterprise-grade backend applications, APIs, and distributed systems. You will work with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, cloud technologies, and modern engineering practices to deliver reliable digital solutions that support customers and business operations.

This opportunity is ideal for a mid-to-senior-level software engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, takes ownership of their work, and collaborates effectively across engineering, QA, product, and business teams. You will have the opportunity to influence solution design, improve system reliability, mentor fellow engineers, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.

• Design & Develop Backend Services: Build, enhance, integrate, and maintain secure backend services, RESTful APIs, and microservices supporting mobile, web, enterprise, and partner applications.
• Engineer for Performance & Reliability: Develop scalable, resilient, observable, and high-performing applications with a focus on availability, responsiveness, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with business analysts, QA engineers, frontend developers, architects, and cross-functional stakeholders to define requirements and deliver sustainable technical solutions.
• Build Quality into Delivery: Develop and maintain unit, integration, and automated tests using frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito to ensure code quality and reliable releases.
• Apply Secure Engineering Practices: Implement secure coding principles, data protection practices, and established engineering standards across the software development lifecycle.
• Troubleshoot & Optimize: Investigate production defects, performance bottlenecks, integration challenges, and complex distributed system dependencies to improve application stability.
• Improve Code Quality: Conduct peer code reviews and refactor existing code to enhance security, readability, maintainability, and overall system performance.
• Contribute to Technical Design: Support solution architecture, technical documentation, proof-of-concepts (PoCs), and engineering decisions that align with business and technology objectives.
• Support the Full Development Lifecycle: Contribute to testing, deployment, production support, incident troubleshooting, and continuous operational improvements.
• Embrace Agile & Continuous Improvement: Participate in Agile ceremonies, contribute to adaptive planning, and promote automation, reusable components, and effective development practices.
• Mentor & Share Knowledge: Provide technical guidance to junior and less experienced engineers while contributing to a collaborative and inclusive engineering culture.

• Strong professional experience in Java backend development
  , with Java 17 or newer preferred.
• Proficiency in enterprise Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, web services, and RESTful API development.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks and practices, including JUnit, Mockito, and test-driven or test-focused development approaches.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD tools such as Maven, Docker, Jenkins, Git Hub, or Azure Dev Ops.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, SQL, data integration patterns, and backend data…