Senior Backend Engineer - Remote for Gov Healthcare

Veterans EZ Info Inc; San Antonio (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k with Employer Match

PTO + Federal Holidays

Corporate Laptop

Training Opportunities

Remote Opportunity

Job summary

VetsEZ is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for a 100% remote position supporting a large federal government healthcare technology project. The role focuses on designing, developing, and modernizing enterprise backend services, APIs, and integration solutions to enable secure, scalable healthcare applications.

The candidate will work with architects, product owners, QA teams, and DevSecOps to deliver reliable backend capabilities and ensure platform reliability across enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in backend engineering, enterprise application development, or software engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful API development, and service-oriented or microservices architectures.
• Experience with SQL, relational database design, and backend data integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, secure application development, and enterprise security best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development workflows, and production support operations.
• Proven ability to lead technical implementation efforts and mentor less-experienced developers within Agile teams.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, system design, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working within Agile software delivery environments and collaborating across cross-functional technical teams.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services, APIs, and enterprise integration components supporting mission-critical healthcare applications.
• Lead technical implementation activities involving service-layer business logic, data processing, error handling, and system integrations.
• Collaborate with architects and technical leadership to align solution development with platform standards, roadmap priorities, and non-functional requirements.
• Perform code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote best practices for maintainability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Support troubleshooting, root cause analysis, defect remediation, and production support activities across multiple environments.
• Optimize backend application performance, monitoring, logging, and observability capabilities to improve operational stability.
• Contribute to technical design reviews, estimation efforts, release planning, and technical documentation activities.
• Partner with QA and DevSecOps teams to improve testability, deployment readiness, and operational resilience.
• Identify opportunities for refactoring, reusable components, and debt reduction initiatives.
• Support Agile delivery processes and contribute to sprint, increment, and release commitments across cross-functional teams.
• Contribute to various projects and initiatives as assigned, demonstrating adaptability and a collaborative mindset.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Microservices

SQL

Authentication & Security

CI/CD

Git

Agile

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT or related field

Tools

InterSystems IRIS

FHIR APIs

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

VetsEZ is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for a 100% remote position supporting a large federal government healthcare technology project. The role focuses on designing, developing, and modernizing enterprise backend services, APIs, and integration solutions to enable secure, scalable healthcare applications.

The candidate will work with architects, product owners, QA teams, and DevSecOps to deliver reliable backend capabilities and ensure platform reliability across enterprise environments.