Digital Engineer – Backend
First seen by Alion on Sep 18, 2026. INSPYR Solutions scores B on the Alion truth index.
Location: Vienna, VA or Pensacola, FL (HYBRID)
Duration: Initial 6-month contract with possible extensions
Compensation: $65/hour - $72/hour
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.
Digital Engineer - Backend
Role Overview
- We are seeking a mid-to-senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, test, integrate, and maintain backend services and digital systems supporting mobile and online banking platforms. This role partners closely with analysts, QA testers, frontend engineers, and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and high-quality solutions.
- This candidate works independently on complex initiatives with minimal supervision and provides technical guidance to less experienced engineers. This role requires strong engineering judgment, professionalism, effective collaboration, and a focus on secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, integrate, and maintain secure backend services and APIs supporting mobile, web, enterprise, and partner systems.
- Design for performance, reliability, resiliency, observability, quality, and responsiveness.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver sustainable technical solutions.
- Develop and maintain unit, integration, and automated tests to support reliable delivery.
- Apply secure coding, data protection, and engineering standards.
- Troubleshoot production defects, performance bottlenecks, integration issues, and complex service dependencies.
- Refactor code and conduct peer reviews to improve security, quality, readability, and maintainability.
- Contribute to solution design, technical documentation, and proof-of-concepts that support architectural decisions.
- Support services across testing, deployment, production troubleshooting, and continuous operational improvement.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and advocate for adaptive planning, automation, reusable solutions, and continuous improvement.
- Share knowledge and support the development of less experienced engineers.
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- Strong Java experience, with Java 17 or newer preferred.
- Solid knowledge of enterprise Java, Spring, Spring Boot, web services, and RESTful APIs.
- Experience with automated testing frameworks and practices, such as JUnit and Mockito.
- Proficiency with Git and CI/CD tools such as Maven, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong understanding of databases, SQL, and data integration patterns.
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and designing scalable, resilient, observable microservices.
- Experience developing cloud-native applications, with Microsoft Azure strongly preferred.
- Effective communication, independent prioritization, and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Desired Qualifications:
- Knowledge of banking or financial services industry standards and practices.
- Experience working in Agile environments and cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies, such as Kafka.
- Backend Engineer | Digital Engineering
- Exposure to data engineering concepts, data management, data migration, high-volume data integrations and performance optimization.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and system design skills.
- Ability to efficiently and responsibly use AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and code quality.
- Awareness of sustainable coding practices and efficient system design.
Hours: Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-4:30 PM
Location: Hiring locations is primarily HQ and GPO, but the manager will review resumes from any of the major campus locations (Pensacola, FL, Winchester, VA, San Diego, CA and Vienna, VA).
Our benefits package includes:
- Comprehensive medical benefits
- Competitive pay
- 401(k) retirement plan
- …and much more!
About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients’ business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.
INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other protected status. INSPYR Solutions complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process should contact [email protected] for assistance.
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