Sr. Backend Dev – Java/Spring Boot, Angular, Cloud - TX

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