Backend Platform Engineer – APIs, Microservices & Cloud

Tax Analysts, Inc.; Falls Church, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision

401K

Tuition assistance

Generous PTO

Dog-friendly office

Private gym onsite

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Employee Assistance Program

Life and AD&D Insurance

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Job summary

Tax Analysts, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer, Application Platform to design, develop, modernize, and support backend applications, APIs, microservices, and serverless functions powering Tax Analysts’ products and internal platforms.

This hands-on role requires strong backend skills, AWS, databases and search tech, deployment automation, observability, and reliability focus. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and external partners is essential.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Backend development with APIs, microservices, serverless architectures.
• 2+ years in AWS or another major cloud platform, AWS preferred.
• 2+ years working with production databases, search technologies, and system design.
• 1+ year applying AI technologies to business/product solutions.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or Software Engineering (or equivalent experience).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend apps, APIs, microservices, serverless and containerized services.
• Modernize existing applications and plan migrations with risk minimization.
• Participate in design decisions and create practical implementation plans.
• Develop data integration, transformation, and persistence solutions.
• Maintain integrations among apps, APIs, auth services, databases, and search platforms.
• Diagnose and resolve pre-deploy and production issues across code, data, and cloud environments.
• Contribute to CI/CD, IaC, and deployment processes for reliable releases.
• Promote engineering standards for design, code quality, testing, APIs, security, observability, and maintainability.
• Create architecture docs, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides for long-term ownership.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, operations, and partners within Agile delivery.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

Backend development

APIs

Microservices

Serverless

AWS

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

AI-assisted development

AI-enabled capabilities

Security concepts

Documentation

Agile delivery

Collaboration

Troubleshooting

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

Git

CloudFormation

Terraform

AWS SAM

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Tax Analysts, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer, Application Platform to design, develop, modernize, and support backend applications, APIs, microservices, and serverless functions powering Tax Analysts’ products and internal platforms.

This hands-on role requires strong backend skills, AWS, databases and search tech, deployment automation, observability, and reliability focus. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and external partners is essential.