Staff Backend Engineer

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $180k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Alight Solutions

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10,000+ employees

🤝 B2B

🏥 Healthcare

☁️ SaaS

💰 $22.5M Post-IPO Secondary - Alight Solutions on 2023-08

B2B • Healthcare • SaaS

Alight Solutions is a leading benefits administration provider that delivers health, wealth, leave, and related HR point solutions for large organizations and their employees. The company helps manage benefits administration and human capital-related processes for enterprises, serving many of the world’s largest organizations and over 30 million people. Alight also emphasizes product and technology roles, corporate sustainability, total rewards, and a focus on transforming lives and organizations by maximizing health, financial and work wellbeing.

📋 Description

• Define and evolve the application architecture, domain model, workflows and business logic for the Benefits Intelligence module • Design and build application services and APIs connecting Worklife with the Data Engine • Establish clear interface contracts, error handling, observability and operational ownership • Lead the technical integration of Data Engine capabilities into Worklife • Adapt existing user-interface components and develop new administrative experiences where required • Establish reusable full-stack engineering patterns for maintainability, security, testing, observability, deployment and operational efficiency • Translate emerging product concepts and business requirements into pragmatic technical options • Evaluate trade-offs and drive implementation in partnership with Product and Architecture • Drive technical execution across Engineering, Product, UX, Data and platform teams • Surface dependencies early and bring design and integration decisions to closure • Approve application architecture and domain model • Produce production-ready APIs, services, workflows and user experiences • Document interface contracts and integration patterns • Automate tests, telemetry, runbooks and operational handoff • Reuse engineering standards and reference implementations

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including ownership of complex production applications • Deep expertise in application data modeling, API design, and backend services • Proficiency in modern front-end development • Demonstrated 0→1 system design and build experience for complex B2B use cases and non-technical users • Product judgment and ability to convert ambiguity into clear technical decisions and incremental delivery • Experience integrating new application capabilities into established products and technology ecosystems • Experience adapting and extending existing services and UI components • Independent execution of cross-functional technical leadership across multiple Engineering and Product teams without relying on formal authority • Fluency with approved agentic coding practices and disciplined software engineering controls • Experience integrating application platforms with data or AI-enabled services • Experience improving observability, reliability and operational efficiency for production applications • Must have work authorization in the United States that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship • Successful completion of a background check

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One • Wellbeing programs • Retirement plans with contribution matching • Generous time off • Parental leave • Continuing education • Career growth opportunities • Flexible working arrangements wherever possible • Competitive total rewards package • Continuing education and training • Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities

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