Senior Back-End / Platform Engineer

Alexandria, VA, US • Posted 13 hours ago • Updated 6 minutes ago
Full Time
On-site
USD 135,000.00 per year
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Skills

  • Information Technology
  • Data Management
  • Thread
  • Program Management
  • Analytics
  • Accountability
  • Service Level
  • Technical Writing
  • Software Engineering
  • Microservices
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Security+
  • Python
  • Django
  • Flask
  • Data Integrity
  • Business Process
  • OAuth
  • OIDC
  • Authentication
  • Change Data Capture
  • Database
  • Data Quality
  • Microsoft Office
  • Sharepoint Online
  • Microsoft
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Extraction
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Workflow
  • Evaluation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Decision Support
  • GraphQL
  • Data Modeling
  • Query Optimization
  • High Availability
  • Backup
  • Recovery
  • Replication
  • Migration
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Cloud Computing
  • Streaming
  • Apache Kafka
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • RabbitMQ
  • Amazon SQS
  • Extract
  • Transform
  • Load
  • ELT
  • Document Processing
  • JSON
  • XML
  • Computerized System Validation
  • PDF
  • Automated Testing
  • Regression Analysis
  • API
  • Security QA
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Git
  • GitLab
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Law
  • Health Care
  • Insurance
  • Training

Summary

Overview

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Engineering & Analysis, Test & Evaluation, and Training.

Responsibilities

Design, build, migrate, and sustain DTE&A Data Management Platform (DDMP) secure domain services, data-access layer, integration APIs, workflow automation, and AI-enabled back-end capabilities.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the modernization of existing DDMP Python/Flask services and legacy MySQL/MongoDB data into secure, scalable cloud-native services.
  • Design and implement business APIs for assessments, evaluation, findings, recommendations, reconciliation threads, reports, artifacts, and approval history.
  • Build secure, observable integrations with enterprise data sources, program-management systems, SharePoint, telemetry streams, and analytics platforms.
  • Develop data-ingestion, transformation, validation, and reconciliation services that preserve data integrity and provenance.
  • Implement workflow automation and AI-assisted capabilities while ensuring analysts remain the accountable authority for official findings and scores.
  • Establish API standards, coding standards, data-quality controls, service-level objectives, and technical documentation.
  • Partner with security and cloud engineering staff to remediate vulnerabilities, implement secure configurations, and generate ATO evidence.

Qualifications

  • BS, TS/SCI eligible with 11+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience, including 3+ years delivering cloud-native, distributed, or microservices-based applications.
  • AWS Certified Developer, Microsoft Azure Developer Associate, Google Professional Cloud Developer, or comparable CSP credential.
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) or equivalent practical Kubernetes expertise.
  • Security+ or equivalent certification.
  • Expert-level Python experience, including modern API and service frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, Django, or equivalent.
  • Experience decomposing a monolithic Flask application into modular services without disrupting active users or data integrity.
  • Experience designing domain-driven systems and workflow engines for complex, auditable business processes.
  • Knowledge of API gateway patterns, API versioning, throttling, idempotency, OpenAPI specifications, OAuth/OIDC token validation, and service-to-service authentication.
  • Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC), database replication, data quality controls, lineage, and data reconciliation.
  • Experience integrating with Microsoft 365/SharePoint Online through Microsoft Graph while maintaining SharePoint as the authoritative artifact repository.
  • Experience implementing retrieval-augmented generation, document extraction, NLP workflows, model-evaluation controls, and human-in-the-loop AI decision support.
  • Familiarity with DoW data platforms, secure cross-boundary integrations, and auditability requirements.
  • Deep experience designing and implementing REST APIs; practical GraphQL experience strongly preferred.
  • Strong relational-data expertise, especially PostgreSQL: data modeling, schema evolution, migrations, query optimization, indexing, transactions, high availability, backup/restore, and replication.
  • Experience migrating legacy data platforms, preferably MySQL and MongoDB to PostgreSQL and/or managed cloud data services, with validation, reconciliation, rollback, and minimal-downtime approaches.
  • Experience with event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, queues, and streaming platforms such as Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ, SQS, or equivalent.
  • Experience building ETL/ELT, data-ingestion, document-processing, and API-integration pipelines for structured and unstructured content, including JSON, XML, CSV, PDF, and Office documents.
  • Strong expertise in automated testing: unit, integration, contract, regression, performance, and API security testing.
  • Experience packaging applications with Docker and deploying to Kubernetes or a managed container platform.
  • Proficiency with Git-based development and CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitLab CI/CD in a DoW enterprise environment.

Pay Transparency Statement

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is USD $135,000.00/Yr. - USD $165,000/Yr. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance.

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  • Dice Id: RTL010594
  • Position Id: 52e56939f311c5503dd425aff43d1e50
  • Posted 13 hours ago
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