# Senior Backend Engineer

The Senior Backend Engineer designs, builds, and maintains scalable, secure, and reliable backend systems and services that power learning solutions for Pansophic Learning. This role owns the technical design and delivery of backend services, APIs, and integrations, with a focus on performance, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence. The Senior Backend Engineer provides technical guidance, contributes to architecture decisions, and drives continuous improvements in engineering practices. This role reports directly to the Software Development Manager and works closely with Software Engineers, QA/Test Engineers, product teams, and other cross-functional partners. The ideal candidate is proactive, collaborative, and comfortable mentoring engineers, leading technical discussions, and balancing near-term delivery with long-term system quality. This position will work 4 days per week in office in Tysons Corner, VA. Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available backend services and APIs for K-12 learning environments Build and manage RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express Design and optimize relational and NoSQL data models, datab

- **Id**: 4103866
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pansophic-learning-senior-backend-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Tysons, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T16:14:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T22:14:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4853
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Secondary Education, Primary Education

## Company

- **Id**: 684485
- **Name**: Pansophic Learning
- **Domain**: pansophiclearning.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pansophiclearning>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Technologies

- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **API Gateway** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS CDK** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Docker Compose** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T22:14:04Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 20
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:05Z

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