Backend Software Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 9, 2026.
What You'll Do :
- Design, build, test, and deploy scalable backend features and services with minimal supervision.
- Work with Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern backend technologies, with the ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Build reliable and maintainable APIs, background jobs, integrations, and backend services.
- Design and optimize data models, database schemas, migrations, indexes, queries, caching, and asynchronous workflows.
- Write high-quality automated tests across unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end layers.
- Participate in code and design reviews, ensuring strong standards for security, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Debug and resolve issues across development, CI/CD, deployment, and production environments.
- Identify technical debt, architectural bottlenecks, and operational risks, and drive practical improvements.
- Take ownership of production systems, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and on-call responsibilities where applicable.
- Integrate AI effectively into your engineering workflow while maintaining high standards for code quality and correctness.
What You'll Bring :
- Strong professional experience building and operating production-grade backend applications.
- Solid fundamentals in software engineering, API design, databases, testing, debugging, scalability, and performance optimization.
- Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go, or another modern backend language.
- Proven ability to independently take a feature from problem definition - design - implementation - deployment - improvement.
- Strong engineering judgment across security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational risk.
- Understanding of modular architecture, service boundaries, coupling, and distributed-system trade-offs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly in a remote and asynchronous environment.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools, with the ability to review, validate, and correct generated code.
Nice to Have :
- Go: Production services, concurrency, profiling, performance optimization, or gRPC.
- Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.
- Rust: Experience in systems, security, performance, or platform engineering.
- Data & Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, schema evolution, caching, queues, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
- Observability: Metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
- Experience working with modular monoliths, bounded contexts, shared components, or independently operated services.
Skills
Ruby on Rails, Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, Cloud, Ruby Programming, API