Backend Engineer - Enterprise APIs & Microservices

Galent; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Galent is seeking Backend Engineers to design and develop server-side services, APIs, and data integrations for our financial services clients. You will work with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud deployments to build secure, scalable back-end systems.

You will own workstreams from design through production support, apply code quality and security standards, and collaborate with product, engineering, testing, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 2–10+ years of enterprise application development experience.
• Hands-on server-side development and RESTful APIs using Java, Spring, and Spring Boot.
• Experience with microservices architectures and API design.
• SQL and relational databases; familiarity with NoSQL stores (MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Messaging platforms like Kafka, JMS, or RabbitMQ.
• JSON, XML, REST, SOAP, and web services.
• Jenkins, Git, CI/CD, and testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito).
• Cloud development and production triage.
• Comfortable working in Agile environments and collaborating with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into secure services and enterprise APIs for clients.
• Own assigned workstreams from design through production support.
• Apply code quality, security, testing, and automation standards.
• Collaborate across product, engineering, testing, and operations teams.

Skills

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

Microservices

RESTful APIs

SOAP

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

JPA / Hibernate

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS / Azure

CI/CD

JUnit / Mockito

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Git

JUnit

Mockito

Kafka

JMS

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

Galent is seeking Backend Engineers to design and develop server-side services, APIs, and data integrations for our financial services clients. You will work with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud deployments to build secure, scalable back-end systems.

You will own workstreams from design through production support, apply code quality and security standards, and collaborate with product, engineering, testing, and operations teams.