REMOTE Backend Software Engineer

Insight Global; Town of Brookfield (WI); Remote; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for regulated industries, including insurance and healthcare. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and security in cloud-native environments.

You will work with AWS serverless stacks (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS), .NET Core/C#, data modeling, and event-driven microservices, plus Terraform, CI/CD, and automated testing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and building backend systems on AWS.
• Strong proficiency with AWS services including Lambda, SQS/SNS, API Gateway.
• Deep experience designing and supporting event-driven, distributed microservice architectures.
• Advanced experience with .NET Core and C# for backend service development.
• Experience implementing automated testing (unit, integration, and service-level tests).
• Hands-on Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Healthcare or insurance data experience.
• Frontend experience with React and Next.js.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using AWS serverless and managed services.
• Build and support event-driven microservices, ensuring loose coupling, resiliency, and scalability.
• Own backend data flows, including data modeling, validation, persistence, and system-to-system integrations.
• Implement secure, performant APIs and asynchronous messaging patterns to support high-throughput workloads.
• Develop and maintain automated tests to ensure reliability, correctness, and long-term maintainability.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize backend systems in production environments.
• Develop and execute automated tests to ensure software quality and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve our solutions.

Skills

Backend design

Microservices architecture

C#/.NET Core

AWS cloud services

Automated testing

Data modeling

CI/CD practices

Problem solving

Healthcare/insurance domain

SDLC / Agile

Tools

Terraform

AWS Lambda

SQS/SNS

API Gateway

Job description

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer to support a client operating in highly regulated domains, including insurance and healthcare. This role is focused on building and maintaining scalable, reliable backend services that power mission-critical applications. The ideal candidate is passionate about backend engineering, cloud-native architectures, and data-intensive systems, and thrives in an environment where reliability, performance, and security are paramount.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using AWS serverless and managed services.
• Build and support event-driven microservices, ensuring loose coupling, resiliency, and scalability.
• Own backend data flows, including data modeling, validation, persistence, and system-to-system integrations.
• Implement secure, performant APIs and asynchronous messaging patterns to support high-throughput workloads.
• Develop and maintain automated tests to ensure reliability, correctness, and long-term maintainability.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize backend systems in production environments.
• Develop and execute automated tests to ensure software quality and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve our solutions.

Skills and Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and building backend systems on AWS.
• Strong proficiency with AWS services including Lambda, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, and related serverless components.
• Comfortable working within an AI-enabled Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), leveraging spec-driven development methodologies to accelerate delivery and improve engineering efficiency.
• Deep experience designing and supporting event-driven, distributed microservice architectures.
• Solid background in data modeling, persistence strategies, and data integrity across services.
• Experience implementing automated testing (unit, integration, and service-level tests).
• Advanced experience with .NET Core and C# for backend service development.
• Strong problem-solving skills with high attention to detail in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, ideally Terraform.
• Comfortable working in a scaled agile environment with CI/CD pipelines.
• AWS Certifications (Developer, Solutions Architect, or equivalent).
• Experience working with healthcare or insurance data in backend systems.
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards and formats (e.g., HL7, FHIR, claims data models, HIPAA-compliant data handling).
• Frontend experience with React and Next.js.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail].