Backend SDE II
First seen by Alion on Oct 23, 2026.
As a Software Engineer II - Backend at ALLEN Digital, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining mission-critical systems that power our edtech platform. You'll work across the full software development lifecycle, contributing to architecture decisions, writing clean and efficient code, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions.
Job Responsibilities:
● Define the architecture, design, develop, test, document and operate backend systems and
services. Accountable for solution elegance, ease of evolution, quality of the systems and
performance, scalability, and availability characteristics.
● Work with product management and other engineering peers to deliver on the goals.
● Provide technical guidance and coaching to junior developers.
● Be a technical engineer passionate about distributed systems, cloud service development,
deployment, and delivery.
● Collaborate with all stakeholders to determine functional and non-functional requirements
for software development.
● Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility.
● Write clean, maintainable code while rapidly iterating and shipping the features.
What we are looking for:
● Work experience of 2-5yrs
● A solid engineer at heart with excellent abstraction, coding, and system design skills with
excellent programming skills
● A technical mindset with great attention to detail
● A proven track record of working on the design, architecture, and delivery in a consumer internet
ecosystem on backend technologies.
● An experienced technical leader in agile software engineering teams.
● Strong communicator, able to navigate ambiguity, and exercise judgment when making decisions.
● Good knowledge of design and development of Distributed Systems.
● Must have exposure to building platforms and products from scratch.
● Excellent knowledge of designing and developing Microservice