Backend Application Engineer

Engg; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 84,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Backend Application Engineer to turn complex mission needs into reliable enterprise software. You’ll build services, APIs, business logic, data access layers, and integrations powering federal applications across defense, public safety, civilian and health programs.

You will work with Product Managers, Quality Engineers, Cloud Platform Engineers, and client stakeholders, applying secure coding, CI/CD, and testing.

Qualifications

• Experience in back-end, application, software, API, or integration engineering.
• Hands-on development in at least one modern enterprise language such as Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go.
• Experience building or consuming REST APIs and enterprise integrations.
• Experience with relational or NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with code assist technologies (e.g., Gemini Code Assist, GitHub Copilot).
• Understanding of automated testing, source control, CI/CD, and Agile software delivery.
• For deeper experience, ability to lead complex work and mentor teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain enterprise application services and APIs.
• Develop solutions using appropriate languages and frameworks; integrate with databases, messaging, cloud services.
• Modernize legacy components and decompose into maintainable services.
• Write tests, participate in code reviews, and support CI/CD and production issues.
• Apply secure coding, observability, and data-integrity practices.

Skills

Back-end engineering

REST APIs

Agile software delivery

Mentoring/leadership

Secure coding

CI/CD

Testing (unit/integration)

Observability/logging

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Java

C#

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Go

Relational/NoSQL databases

Job description

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more. Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

You are:

A Backend Application Engineer who enjoys turning complex business and mission needs into dependable enterprise software. You build the services, APIs, business logic, data interactions, and integrations that power federal applications. You may be developing your foundation across back-end engineering or already be ready to independently own services, integrations, and meaningful application workstreams. This capability is intentionally broader than a single programming language. As your experience grows, you may lead application modernization efforts, define service and integration patterns, mentor engineers, and influence architecture and engineering standards across teams.

The work:

Design, build, test, and maintain enterprise application services, APIs, business logic, data-access layers, and integrations. Develop solutions using languages and frameworks appropriate to the problem, including Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, or comparable technologies. Integrate applications with databases, messaging platforms, external services, legacy systems, cloud services, and enterprise platforms. Modernize legacy application components and help decompose tightly coupled systems into maintainable services and reusable capabilities. Write automated unit, integration, and API tests and participate in code reviews, CI/CD, debugging, release support, and production issue resolution. Apply secure coding, API design, error handling, logging, observability, performance, and data-integrity practices throughout development. Use AFS-approved AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows to accelerate coding, testing, refactoring, documentation, and analysis while validating outputs. Partner with Product Managers, Digital Experience Engineers, Quality Engineers, Cloud Platform Engineers, architects, security teams, and client stakeholders. As your experience grows, lead complex services or application areas, establish technical patterns, mentor engineers, and shape modernization and architecture decisions.

Here’s what you need:

• Professional experience in back-end, application, software, API, or integration engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on development experience in at least one modern enterprise language such as Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, or a comparable language.
• Experience building or consuming REST APIs, services, business logic, or enterprise application integrations.
• Experience with relational or NoSQL databases and common data-access concepts.
• Experience leveraging code assist technologies while developing applications (e.g., Gemini Code Assist, GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, etc.).
• Understanding of automated testing, source control, code review, debugging, CI/CD, and Agile software delivery.
• For candidates with deeper experience, demonstrated ability to lead complex application work, mentor others, define engineering patterns, and make sound tradeoff decisions across teams.

Bonus points if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Spring/Spring Boot, .NET, Node.js, FastAPI/Django/Flask, Go frameworks, or comparable application frameworks.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, messaging technologies, API gateways, or enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, containers, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, or cloud-native application development.
• Experience with application modernization, legacy integration, data migration, performance engineering, or secure software development.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar systems, communicate technical issues clearly, and take increasing ownership of services or application workstreams.
• Previous federal consulting, government, or mission-oriented delivery experience.

Eligibility Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to work with federal clients and comply with applicable AFS, client, security, and program requirements.
• Ability to work in a hybrid, remote, or client-site environment as program needs require.

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland . The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is: $83,600 - $196,000 USD