Sr. Backend Developer

Bigbear.ai - Reston, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Reston, VA

About the position

The Senior Back-End Developer at BigBear.ai will lead the development of a cloud-based application utilizing RESTful services. This role focuses on defining interfaces, managing data interchange between servers and users, and developing server-side logic while ensuring high performance and responsiveness for API users.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, develop, test, and deploy new and existing software and web applications
• Build prototypes, troubleshoot, and resolve backend issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks
• Design robust APIs to support external systems, web, and mobile applications
• Write API documentation of backend web services
• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud
• Develop unit tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing
• Implement security and data protection measures
• Work closely with the product manager, business analyst, and chief architect to develop technical design and solutions
• Coordinate with other team members to provide the deliverable end-product
• Design and implement high availability services with a disaster recovery plan
• Support all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, including releases and deployment
• Stay up to date with current best practices
• Coach and mentor other peer team members
• Support customer and integrator meetings

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent and 5 to 8 years of experience; Master's Degree and 3 to 6 years of experience; PhD and 0 to 3 years of experience (in lieu of Bachelor's degree, 6 additional years of relevant experience)
• Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web services design
• Experience writing highly secure serverless cloud-based applications that leverage Infrastructure as Code approach using AWS core technologies
• Professional experience in designing RESTful APIs, business logic using various programming languages: JavaScript, Java, Python
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Quick problem-solving skills with exceptional aptitude and reasoning
• Familiar with user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

Nice-to-haves

• Proven work experience of 5-9 years in a similar or related field
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or Equivalent