Principal Software Engineer, Back End

About the role

A senior technical authority role shaping backend and full-stack engineering strategy, architecture and standards while leading large modernization efforts for systems serving public sector customers.

What you will do

• Set the strategic direction for backend and full-stack architecture and technical standards across the organization
• Lead delivery of secure, scalable distributed systems for government users
• Design service architectures, data pipelines and infrastructure patterns that support reliability and team speed
• Build features for core services such as customer intake, application screening and information distribution
• Create shared libraries, frameworks and infrastructure patterns that keep engineering consistent
• Mentor engineers at all levels and advise teams on architecture and infrastructure decisions

What they look for

• A record of delivering multiple production distributed systems with measurable impact
• Experience architecting high throughput microservice systems with strong reliability needs
• History of setting backend standards and architectural patterns that raise team output and quality
• Hands-on knowledge of event-driven design, asynchronous processing, caching and data consistency
• Experience designing REST, GraphQL or similar APIs for customer-facing applications
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code and deployment on AWS, Azure or GCP