Backend Engineer: Ownership, Growth & Impact in TX

Energy Innovation Corp; McKinney (TX); On-site; USD 86,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

Knight Frank in McKinney, TX is seeking a Backend Developer to own backend decisions, optimize latency, and drive delivery. This full-time role emphasizes hands-on ownership with a clear path for technology professionals and a salary range of $86,000–$114,000.

You will translate outages into fixes, automate pipelines, and debug across services. Expect collaborative, fast-paced work and opportunities to reduce cloud spend while delivering solid Python and Angular improvements.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years building expertise within the technology space.
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame.
• A communication style that translates jargon back into plain English.
• Comfort owning technology decisions in a TX market; the grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday.

Responsibilities

• Translate the supportive Initiative outage into fixes that make the next McKinney launch dull.
• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles.
• Trace a self-directed technology bug across three Angular services to the one bad line.
• Ship the Python craft-focused rewrite that pays down years of Knight Frank technical debt.
• Trim Knight Frank's cloud bill by right-sizing the Stakeholder Management infrastructure in McKinney, TX.
• Ship Python fixes to Knight Frank customers in McKinney, TX the same day they report them.

Skills

Backend development

PHP

Python

Angular

CI/CD

4+ years experience

Git

Tools

Git

Job description

Knight Frank in McKinney, TX is seeking a Backend Developer to own backend decisions, optimize latency, and drive delivery. This full-time role emphasizes hands-on ownership with a clear path for technology professionals and a salary range of $86,000–$114,000.

You will translate outages into fixes, automate pipelines, and debug across services. Expect collaborative, fast-paced work and opportunities to reduce cloud spend while delivering solid Python and Angular improvements.