Senior Backend Software Engineer – Technical Lead, Public Sector

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🏄 California, Illinois, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $120 / hour

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Friends From The City

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Friends From The City is a modern digital agency that focuses on creating impactful and inclusive technology solutions, primarily for government clients. They specialize in modernizing government systems with user-friendly designs and ensuring that all technology developed is accessible to everyone. Their services include content strategy, human-centered design, product design, and both front and backend engineering. Friends From The City is dedicated to transforming complex concepts into clear communication and building intuitive, secure systems. Their work also emphasizes ethical innovation and supporting historically underrepresented groups, striving towards equity as a service and improving public sector technology. They pride themselves on a client-centric approach, emphasizing strong relationships, transparency, and a culture of continuous learning and inclusivity.

📋 Description

• Architect and develop production-grade REST APIs and backend services • Integrate services with multiple existing systems and external data sources • Translate complex business and policy rules into maintainable application logic • Design SQL data models and integration patterns • Establish API contracts, versioning, error handling, retry, and resiliency patterns • Implement automated unit, integration, end-to-end, and load testing • Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and production observability • Optimize API performance and reliability under production load • Implement security controls for sensitive PII and/or PHI • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code • Participate in production troubleshooting and incident response • Produce API specifications, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and technical documentation • Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance to other engineers • Collaborate with product, design, policy, and external technical teams

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience • Demonstrated experience architecting and owning production backend APIs • Strong backend development experience with Python preferred; comparable experience with Java, C#/.NET, TypeScript/Node.js, Go, or similar technologies also considered • Hands-on experience deploying and operating backend services in AWS • Strong RESTful API design and systems integration experience • Experience integrating with multiple systems, vendors, or external data sources • Strong SQL and relational database experience • Automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing experience • Experience with performance/load testing and production performance optimization • Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and production incident response • CI/CD, Git, and modern software development practices • Experience implementing security controls for sensitive or regulated data • Ability to communicate architecture and technical decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field or equivalent professional experience • Ability to provide a code sample or Git repository demonstrating relevant work • Availability during Eastern Time business hours • Must be located in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• 1099 independent contractor engagement • Potential extension beyond approximately six months through subsequent option periods • No employee benefits such as health insurance, paid time off, retirement benefits, or other W-2 employee benefits