Backend Engineer: Scalable APIs & Cloud Infra

CaseGuard; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Stock Option

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401K

Paid Vacation

Ten paid holidays per year

Friendly and Learning environment

Job summary

CaseGuard is seeking a highly independent Software Engineer to join our backend team. You will build REST API microservices using ASP.NET Core (C#) and craft cloud infrastructure with IaC in AWS, all while contributing to a collaborative file redaction tool and its advanced features.

You will model data, design scalable APIs, and develop CPU/memory-optimized workers, participating in architectural discussions to guide system design and service structure from our Arlington, VA base.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/SE.
• 2+ years backend experience with REST APIs.
• Strong OOP fundamentals and ability to handle ambiguity.
• Experience with SQL and data modeling.
• Experience with Redis or distributed caching.

Responsibilities

• Model business domains into relational/NoSQL data structures.
• Design and build scalable REST APIs for microservices using ASP.NET Core (C#).
• Build heavy file-processing workers optimized for CPU/memory/throughput.
• Design AWS infrastructure with IaC.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to decisions for system design and service structure.

Skills

REST APIs

OOP fundamentals

C# / ASP.NET Core

Relational databases

Distributed caching

Independent problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experiences

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS CDK

Job description

CaseGuard is seeking a highly independent Software Engineer to join our backend team. You will build REST API microservices using ASP.NET Core (C#) and craft cloud infrastructure with IaC in AWS, all while contributing to a collaborative file redaction tool and its advanced features.

You will model data, design scalable APIs, and develop CPU/memory-optimized workers, participating in architectural discussions to guide system design and service structure from our Arlington, VA base.