Remote Backend Engineer – Medicaid (Java/Spring)

For People; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Health insurance

Profit sharing

Job summary

For People, a team of technologists improving government digital services, is seeking a backend engineer to help rebuild the Medicaid Drug Program platform. You will join a small scrum team inside a larger program, shipping features and modernizing services, data, and interfaces on the backend.

The role focuses on Java with Spring Boot, relational databases like PostgreSQL, and designing scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Java programming ability, including Spring Boot.
• Solid database design and data modeling skills.
• Ability to read, understand, and safely modify a large existing codebase you did not write.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience writing automated tests and working in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain the backend services and interfaces behind the platform.
• Work with PostgreSQL for efficient data storage, retrieval, and management.
• Contribute to the next version of the program's drug utilization review tools.
• Lead the team's automated testing practice (unit, integration, performance).
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues in the production system.
• Write clean, scalable code and participate in code reviews.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies across teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

CI/CD

Agile

Unit testing

Code comprehension

Tools

PostgreSQL

Git

AWS

Job description

For People, a team of technologists improving government digital services, is seeking a backend engineer to help rebuild the Medicaid Drug Program platform. You will join a small scrum team inside a larger program, shipping features and modernizing services, data, and interfaces on the backend.

The role focuses on Java with Spring Boot, relational databases like PostgreSQL, and designing scalable solutions.