# Lead Backend Engineer

Job Description As a Lead Engineer, you will be the primary architect and steward of our "Identity-as-a-Service" platform, the bedrock upon which every other product team builds. This isn't just about managing logins; it’s about ensuring that our entire ecosystem is secure, performant, and seamlessly integrated. You will lead the team responsible for the critical infrastructure that handles User Management, SSO, EntraID, and our Public API. Your mission is to ensure that while the product scales, our "base" remains rock-solid, providing high throughput and millisecond-latency for our most critical services. If you thrive on solving complex distributed systems problems and take pride in enabling other engineers to move faster, this role is for you. Candidates must be located within driving distance from our Baltimore HQ. A Day in the Life: Architect Core Services: Design and evolve the platform’s "Identity-as-a-Service" layer, ensuring high availability and consistency across user onboarding, SSO, and API key management. Optimize High-Scale Systems: Build and maintain data retrieval systems capable of accessing millions of records in milliseconds. Drive Reliability & SLAs: Implement

- **Id**: 4284627
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/alertus-technologies-lead-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Baltimore, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T15:29:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T21:26:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4535
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Civil Defense, Access Control & Alarm Systems

## Company

- **Id**: 669052
- **Name**: Alertus Technologies
- **Domain**: alertus.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/alertus>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 73
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0.368
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 73
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 120000
- **Max**: 170000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 170000

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Memcached** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **PHP** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T21:26:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 73
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T22:22:41Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 170000
- **Is top pay**: no

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