Senior Backend Architect – Data Platform (TS/SCI, Hybrid)

J VERS LLC; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Developer/Engineer to design, build, and own backend services and data pipelines for a modern data platform supporting IC AI efforts. You will work with data engineering, analytics, and product managers in a hybrid team, shaping architecture, testing, monitoring, and deployment practices.

The role requires 10 years of experience, strong Python skills, and TS/SCI with CI polygraph.

Qualifications

• 10 years of professional software engineering experience, with strong backend development skills.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience building backend systems, APIs, or distributed services in production environments.
• PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch proficiency.
• Familiarity with AWS, especially S3, RDS, and other data centric services.
• Current/active TS/SCI with a current CI polygraph or be willing and able to obtain a CI polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, e.g. Computer Science, Systems Engineering or equivalent experience
• Understanding of software engineering fundamentals including testing, version control, CI/CD, and system design
• Tenacious troubleshooting, problem solving and error fixing mentality
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, ability to work, collaborate and thrive on a small technical team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own backend services and platform components for a modern data architecture and pipelines.
• Make high-impact technical decisions around architecture, data modeling and system integration
• Build integrations with internal and external data sources, APIs, and event streams
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, and product managers to define scalable data models and platform capabilities
• Improve reliability, observability, and performance of data workflows and backend services
• Implement best practices for testing, monitoring, logging, and deployment
• Contribute to architecture decisions around storage, orchestration, metadata management, and access patterns
• Help establish engineering standards for code quality, documentation, CI/CD, and operational excellence
• Troubleshoot and debug production systems
• This is a hybrid role that will require a mix of work from home and onsite work at the customer's office in Reston, VA.

Skills

Python programming

Backend development

System design

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Testing/CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Docker

OpenShift

GitLab CI

Helm

Job description

Vantor is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Developer/Engineer to design, build, and own backend services and data pipelines for a modern data platform supporting IC AI efforts. You will work with data engineering, analytics, and product managers in a hybrid team, shaping architecture, testing, monitoring, and deployment practices.

The role requires 10 years of experience, strong Python skills, and TS/SCI with CI polygraph.