{"id":2597404,"url":"https://alion.io/job/photon-junior-backend-engineer-dallas-tx","title":"Junior Backend Engineer - Dallas, TX","company":{"id":3186451,"name":"Photon","domain":"photon.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/photon-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"D","score":44,"open_postings":455,"ghost_share":0.941,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"junior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dallas, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":37000,"max":null,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":37000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Db2","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Oracle","optional":false},{"name":"Spring Framework","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":true},{"name":"ServiceNow","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-01-10T00:11:11Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-01-10","last_verified_at":"2026-10-16T02:12:46Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":279,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":279},"description":"The Value You Deliver:\nDesign and build a quality solution which aligns with the technology blueprint and best practices.\nSolving the technology solutions by working closely with the senior developers, tech leads, architects and contributing highly to the design strategy, coding standards with the peer developers for the quality deliverables\nUsing technology skills to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex or multiple software applications.\nAdhering to the project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies.\nThe Skills that are Key to this role:\nTechnical / Behavioral\nProven hands on experience with API Design and development of muti-layer architecture using Java/J2EE solutions and Spring framework\nDesign and develop webservices, database schema, PL/SQLs, stored procedures, and transactional SQL within DB2 / Oracle databases;\nHands-on in GIT and branching strategies\nExposure in resolving technical roadblocks involving multiple technologies.\nAdhering code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing completeness.\nHelping to coordinate the delivery of technical components across internal/external technical teams.\nThe Skills that are Good to Have for this role:\nProven technical skills as an individual contributor.\nAble to be highly productive on an agile project delivery team.\nCollaborate with DevOps engineering to implement continuous integration and deployment using Jenkins and uDeploy tools; analyzing code quality issues using Sonar; implementing application resiliency procedures using HP Operations Orchestration; and process management using HP Service Manager and ServiceNow.\nMaintain trusted relationships with technical and business partners.\nAbility to learn with minimal guidance.\nThe Expertise We’re Looking For\n· Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering/ Information Technology, Information Systems\n· 3-5 years of hands-on technical experience\n· Strong team player that thrives in a collaborative environment\n· Strong written and verbal communication skills\n· Quick learner and a great team player\n· Experience in the financial services industry, preferably in the Mutual Fund environment, is a plus.\nCompensation, Benefits and Duration\nMinimum Compensation: USD 37,000\nMaximum Compensation: USD 132,000\nCompensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.\nMedical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.\nThis position is not available for independent contractors\nNo applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post","description_format":"text","description_chars":2785,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["IT Consulting & Digital Transformation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T07:30:57Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":1,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.053,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":279,"expected_fill_days":13,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T02:49:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":37000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/photon-junior-backend-engineer-dallas-tx","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/photon-junior-backend-engineer-dallas-tx.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T02:49:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4251,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3186451},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3186451"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fphoton-junior-backend-engineer-dallas-tx"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fphoton-junior-backend-engineer-dallas-tx"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fphoton-junior-backend-engineer-dallas-tx"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/photon-junior-backend-engineer-dallas-tx\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fphoton-junior-backend-engineer-dallas-tx"}]}