Lead Backend Engineer — Scalable, Open-Source Systems

Booz Allen Hamilton; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton in the United States seeks an experienced back-end developer to lead a development team crafting scalable, secure enterprise solutions with clean code, APIs, analytics, and infrastructure. You will identify risks and guide solution development for client systems.

The role emphasizes mentorship, modern architectural approaches, and delivering mission-ready software while enabling professional growth and impact across projects.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience implementing, maintaining, and supporting agile software development.
• 8+ years of experience in software development using basic programming languages, technologies, tools, or web development stacks.
• Experience with Agile methodology, extreme programming, software engineering, product management, and software products.
• Experience developing and maintaining the technology needed to power the components which enable the user-facing side of enterprise applications databases, conceptualize and implement data storage solutions, run performance testing and benchmarking, and optimize data performance.
• Experience mentoring or supervising employees.
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree or 10+ years of experience in software engineering in lieu of a degree

Responsibilities

• Lead development team to create custom tools, systems, and sites with performance and scalability.
• Oversee a team using modern architectural approaches and open-source frameworks.
• Identify risks and contribute to solution development for clients.

Skills

8+ years experience

Agile development

Mentoring employees

Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree or 10+ years experience in software engineering

Tools

Java

JavaScript

SQL

Python

API Development

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton in the United States seeks an experienced back-end developer to lead a development team crafting scalable, secure enterprise solutions with clean code, APIs, analytics, and infrastructure. You will identify risks and guide solution development for client systems.

The role emphasizes mentorship, modern architectural approaches, and delivering mission-ready software while enabling professional growth and impact across projects.