Backend Platform Engineer - Cloud, APIs & Microservices

Accenture PLC; City of Albany (NY); Sur place; USD 66 000 - 206 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Accenture LearnVantage seeks a highly capable back-end software engineer to design, build, and operate production systems at scale. You will own services through the full software lifecycle, from architecture to deployment and observability, collaborating with Product, Design, Engineering, and Operations.

You will work with modern back-end technologies, cloud-native development, APIs, microservices, and relational databases, ensuring secure, scalable solutions and integration with enterprise

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of professional software engineering experience in a product-oriented, live production environment.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining production-quality back-end services and microservices using Go, Node.js/TypeScript, or Python, including REST and/or GraphQL APIs, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with AWS or another major public cloud platform, including hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience developing or supporting enterprise SaaS products or platforms, including authentication, application security, system integrations, and troubleshooting production issues.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience using AI-assisted software development tools for coding, debugging, technical investigation, testing, or code review.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related field) or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience.

Responsabilités

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable back-end services, APIs, and microservices supporting LearnVantage products.
• Build robust, secure, and reliable systems supporting complex enterprise learning and administration workflows.
• Own technical solutions from initial design through production deployment and ongoing operation.
• Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Operations, and other stakeholders to translate product and enterprise requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Build and maintain integrations between LearnVantage and enterprise platforms, partner systems, and external services.
• Improve existing systems for performance, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Design and work with relational data models and production databases.
• Develop and operate containerized applications in cloud environments.
• Build and maintain automated testing, CI/CD, deployment, and observability practices.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and improve system resilience and availability.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and code reviews.
• Apply software engineering best practices across code quality, testing, security, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software delivery while maintaining appropriate engineering review, testing, and quality standards.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering standards, development practices, and platform architecture.

Connaissances

Go

Node.js/TypeScript

Python

REST APIs

GraphQL APIs

Relational databases

Cloud-native development

CI/CD pipelines

AI-assisted development tools

Architecting scalable back-end systems

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering

Equivalent 12 years work experience

Outils

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

CI/CD pipelines

Description du poste

Accenture LearnVantage seeks a highly capable back-end software engineer to design, build, and operate production systems at scale. You will own services through the full software lifecycle, from architecture to deployment and observability, collaborating with Product, Design, Engineering, and Operations.

You will work with modern back-end technologies, cloud-native development, APIs, microservices, and relational databases, ensuring secure, scalable solutions and integration with enterprise