Back End Developer

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands‑on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high‑performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Go (Golang).
• Build and optimize REST and Graph
  
  QL APIs supporting critical customer and entity data.
• Work with PostgreSQL and AWS Neptune to model and query complex relationships.
• Develop and optimize large‑scale data ingestion pipelines using AWS services (S3, Lambda).
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines
  , with a strong focus on automation.
• Ensure systems are secure, scalable, and highly performant
  .
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions
  , and cross‑team collaboration.

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including 5+ years with Go
  .
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL and GraphQL
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• Hands‑on experience with AWS (Fargate, Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (ECS/EKS).
• Experience with distributed systems and backend data modelling.
• Exposure to graph databases (AWS Neptune / Gremlin preferred).
• Strong focus on clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Comfortable working across teams in a collaborative environment.

The salary for this position is between $109,480 – $128,520 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long‑term disability insurance] [short‑term disability insurance] [personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [12-15 days of paid vacation time] [6-8 weeks of paid parental leave after a year of service] [9 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System] [Tuition Reimbursement Program]

Want to change the world? Let us know.

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