# Sr. Backend API Developer

Job reference 1279407 Location Houston, Texas, United States Sector IT Function IT & Telecoms Employment type Contract Date published August 27, 2026 Job Title: Sr. Backend API Developer Duration: 12 months (possible extension) Schedule: 5/40 Location: Houston, TX This opportunity offers the chance to design and build production-grade backend services for enterprise applications, with a strong focus on cloud-native microservices, REST APIs, and scalable integration solutions. The role will suit a technically strong software engineer who can contribute to architecture discussions, software quality, performance optimisation, and reliable delivery across distributed global teams. This position will play a key part in developing secure, high-performance backend systems in a modern engineering environment. Required Experience: Strong experience building production-grade enterprise software using Java or Python. Hands-on experience developing cloud-native microservices, REST APIs, enterprise integrations, and scalable backend solutions. Experience contributing to technical design and architecture discussions for enterprise-grade applications. Experience troubleshooting complex production

- **Id**: 1515303
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/airswift-sr-backend-api-developer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Houston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T18:43:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 79
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3673
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2751907
- **Name**: Airswift
- **Domain**: airswift.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/airswift-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: staffing
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 41
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.146
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 118000
- **Max usd**: 220000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 3667

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **API Gateway** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Bitbucket** — Optional: no
- **Django** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Flask** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **JUnit** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Mockito** — Optional: no
- **Postman** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Pytest** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SonarQube** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **Swagger** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: yes
- **Kotlin** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 79

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-30T09:22:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.866
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 79
- **Expected fill days**: 90
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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