Remote Backend Architect & Lead Engineer

Avyanna, LLC; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Avyanna Technologies is seeking a hands-on technical leader to design and implement scalable backend services, APIs, and shared capabilities for automated testing workflows. You will own architecture decisions, drive secure integration patterns, and modernize legacy systems while ensuring stability and data integrity.

The role emphasizes cloud-based backend services, observable systems, and collaboration across product, security, and operations teams to deliver high-quality outcomes in a

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional backend architecture experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, SE, IT, Engineering, or related field; equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
• Deep expertise designing and building scalable, resilient backend systems with high transaction volume and sensitive data handling requirements.
• Demonstrated ownership of architecture decisions across service boundaries, APIs, data models, authentication/authorization patterns, failure handling, and observability.
• Experience building and operating backend services in cloud environments, including shared services consumed by multiple internal systems and integrations.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems into modular services while maintaining production stability, backward compatibility, and secure integration boundaries.
• Ability to serve as a hands-on technical leader across teams, driving standards for reliability, security, and correctness while preventing architectural drift.
• Deliver measurable outcomes in complex environments: ability to take ownership and deliver high-quality results where priorities evolve.
• Collaborate across disciplines: cross-functional work with engineering, product, design, security, and other stakeholders.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences, documenting and presenting tradeoffs, risks, and implementation considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services, APIs, shared services, and integrations supporting automated testing and mission-critical workflows.
• Own architecture decisions across service boundaries, APIs, data models, authentication and authorization, failure handling, observability, and secure integration patterns.
• Modernize legacy capabilities into modular services while preserving production stability, backward compatibility, and secure integration boundaries.
• Establish and drive engineering standards for reliability, security, correctness, testability, maintainability, and observability across teams.
• Build automated tests and CI/CD integrations that improve release confidence and reduce defect escape.
• Partner across product, platform, test, security, and operations teams to solve cross-system technical problems.
• Serve as a backend architecture and technical standards lead, contributing technical artifacts and implementation guidance for ATT deliverables.
• Provide technical inputs to transition, architecture, modernization, sprint, and performance-reporting activities as needed.

Skills

Backend design

System architecture

Cloud environments

Observability

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT/Engineering

Tools

GitLab

Datadog

Job description

Avyanna Technologies is seeking a hands-on technical leader to design and implement scalable backend services, APIs, and shared capabilities for automated testing workflows. You will own architecture decisions, drive secure integration patterns, and modernize legacy systems while ensuring stability and data integrity.

The role emphasizes cloud-based backend services, observable systems, and collaboration across product, security, and operations teams to deliver high-quality outcomes in a