Senior Backend/AI Engineer - API & Cloud Mentor

Advantage Technical; North Bethesda (MD); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage

Dental Coverage

Vision Coverage

Retirement and Savings Plans

Paid Holidays

Paid Time Off

Supplemental Insurance

Wellness or Incentive Programs

Job summary

Advantage Technical is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and own backend APIs, services, data models, and cloud applications. You will work with AI-assisted development tools to deliver secure and scalable systems and help shape architecture.

You will mentor engineers, improve deployment workflows, and enhance system performance while ensuring robust security practices and reliable production databases in AWS-based environments.

Qualifications

• Requires 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Substantial backend development expertise and hands-on use of AI coding assistants with the ability to validate their output.
• Experience with APIs, production databases, cloud deployment (preferably AWS), CI/CD, Docker, automated testing, and secure software practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own backend APIs, services, data models, and cloud applications.
• Maintain secure, reliable, scalable software and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate on architecture, mentor engineers, and improve system performance and engineering practices.

Skills

Backend Development

API Design

Python

Node.js

Java

NoSQL Databases

Relational Databases

AI-Assisted Programming

CI/CD

Security Practices

Distributed Systems

Technical Mentoring

Tools

Docker

AWS

CI/CD Tools

Job description

Advantage Technical is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and own backend APIs, services, data models, and cloud applications. You will work with AI-assisted development tools to deliver secure and scalable systems and help shape architecture.

You will mentor engineers, improve deployment workflows, and enhance system performance while ensuring robust security practices and reliable production databases in AWS-based environments.