Contractor - Digital

SMK Soft Inc

  • Merrifield, VA
  • 5 days ago

    Highlights

    This role requires strong engineering judgment, professionalism, effective collaboration, and a focus on secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions. Design, build, integrate, and maintain secure backend services and APIs supporting mobile, web, enterprise, and partner systems.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationMerrifield, VA

    Description

    Description:

    Hiring locations is primarily HQ and GPO, but the HL will review resumes from any of the major campus locations (GPO, WOC, SDO and HQ).

    Role Overview

    We are seeking a mid-to-senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, test, integrate, and maintain backend

    services and digital systems supporting mobile and online banking platforms. This role partners closely with

    analysts, QA testers, frontend engineers, and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and

    high-quality solutions.

    This candidate works independently on complex initiatives with minimal supervision and provides technical

    guidance to less experienced engineers. This role requires strong engineering judgment, professionalism,

    effective collaboration, and a focus on secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions.

    Key Responsibilities

    Design, build, integrate, and maintain secure backend services and APIs supporting mobile, web,

    enterprise, and partner systems.

    Design for performance, reliability, resiliency, observability, quality, and responsiveness.

    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver sustainable technical solutions.

    Develop and maintain unit, integration, and automated tests to support reliable delivery.

    Apply secure coding, data protection, and engineering standards.

    Troubleshoot production defects, performance bottlenecks, integration issues, and complex service

    dependencies.

    Refactor code and conduct peer reviews to improve security, quality, readability, and maintainability.

    Contribute to solution design, technical documentation, and proof-of-concepts that support architectural

    decisions.

    Support services across testing, deployment, production troubleshooting, and continuous operational

    improvement.

    Participate in Agile ceremonies and advocate for adaptive planning, automation, reusable solutions, and

    continuous improvement.

    Share knowledge and support the development of less experienced engineers.

    Required Qualifications and Skills

    Strong Java experience, with Java 17 or newer preferred.

    Solid knowledge of enterprise Java, Spring, Spring Boot, web services, and RESTful APIs.

    Experience with automated testing frameworks and practices, such as JUnit and Mockito.

    Proficiency with Git and CI/CD tools such as Maven, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub, or Azure DevOps.

    Strong understanding of databases, SQL, and data integration patterns.

    Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and designing scalable, resilient, observable

    microservices.

    Experience developing cloud-native applications, with Microsoft Azure strongly preferred.

    Effective communication, independent prioritization, and collaboration skills, including the ability to

    explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

    Desired Qualifications

    Knowledge of banking or financial services industry standards and practices.

    Experience working in Agile environments and cross-functional teams.

    Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies, such as Kafka.

    Backend Engineer | Digital Engineering

    Exposure to data engineering concepts, data management, data migration, high-volume data integrations,

    and performance optimization.

    Strong analytical, problem-solving, and system design skills.

    Ability to efficiently and responsibly use AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and code

    quality.

    Awareness of sustainable coding practices and efficient system design.

    Hours

    Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-4:30 PM

    Enable Skills-Based HiringNo
    Hybrid Status

    Additional Details

    • Hybrid Status : Hybrid
    • Alternate Job Title : Backend Engineer
    • Digital Contractor Titles : Digital Engineer - Backend
    • Contractor Experience Level : 2

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