Who are we?
For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. For a brief 1 minute video about us, you can check https://youtu.be/uJWBWQZEA6o.
What will you do? What are we looking for?
We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer who will design, build, and maintain backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities. This role combines strong backend engineering with hands-on involvement in release readiness, production deployment, monitoring, and cross-team coordination. You will contribute to high-impact technical decisions, maintain engineering excellence, and help drive smooth, reliable release cycles.
What You Will Do
- Partner with technical leaders to contribute to architecture, design frameworks, and roadmap planning.
- Provide engineering guidance during early-stage designs and ensure strong technical execution.
- Build reliable, scalable distributed systems and backend services.
- Lead key technical decisions for high-risk or high-impact initiatives.
- Drive features from prototype to production with end-to-end ownership.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, security, digital, and engineering teams.
- Work effectively in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.
- Take ownership in a remote/hybrid setup and ensure strong communication across teams.
- Identify customer pain points and propose self‑service automation solutions.
- Promote innovation, continuous improvement, and a positive, collaborative team culture.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Angular.
- Experience working with cloud platforms (GCP, Azure) and end-to-end DevOps pipelines.
- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and design patterns.
- 3+ years building and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
- Hands-on experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong skills with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring release readiness.
- Experience supporting production deployments and performing post‑deployment validation.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and sprint planning.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers.
- High level of ownership and ability to operate with minimal guidance.
- Background in roles combining development + release/operations.
- Experience with Application & Performance Monitoring tools.
- Knowledge of Pub/Sub, Kafka, or other event-driven messaging systems.
- Exposure to SRE/DevOps practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare domains (PBM, NCPDP, HIPAA).
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field – or equivalent experience.
Location
- Texas, Chicago, NY - Photon Offices
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 44,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 154,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
This position is available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post
Skills Required
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Angular.
- Experience working with cloud platforms (GCP, Azure) and end-to-end DevOps pipelines.
- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and design patterns.
- 3+ years building and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
- Hands-on experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong skills with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring release readiness.
- Experience supporting production deployments and performing post-deployment validation.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and sprint planning.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers.
- Background in roles combining development and release/operations.
- Experience with Application & Performance Monitoring tools.
- Knowledge of Pub/Sub, Kafka, or other event-driven messaging systems.
- Exposure to SRE/DevOps practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in healthcare domains (PBM, NCPDP, HIPAA).
What We Do
Photon.com has emerged as one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing Digital Agencies. We work with 40% of the Fortune 100 on their Digital initiatives and are known for our ability to integrate Strategy Consulting, Creative Design, and Technology at scale. Please visit www.photon.com to learn more about us, how we work, and our customer case studies. Digital Transformation Starts Here.
