Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable APIs & Distributed Systems

D.R. Horton; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flex Spending Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Bank

Job summary

D.R. Horton in Arlington, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services to design, build, and optimize scalable backend systems and APIs.

You will work with product managers and cross‑functional teams to deliver secure, reliable services in an in‑person role at our Arlington office. Ideal candidates have 5–8 years of backend experience, strong REST and GraphQL expertise, and a solid command of distributed systems and cloud tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or equivalent education and experience.
• 5–8 years of professional backend experience in an enterprise environment.
• Deep hands‑on experience with message queuing and event streaming platforms.
• Proven ability to design and deliver production-grade RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.
• Experience with unit, integration, and contract tests (JUnit, pytest, Jest, etc.).
• Experience with cloud environments and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-throughput backend services and APIs at scale across distributed environments.
• Develop and maintain robust RESTful APIs and GraphQL services with well‑defined schemas.
• Architect event‑driven systems using queues and streaming platforms.
• Lead CI/CD pipelines and ensure quality gates for production deployments.
• Collaborate with Product to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and conduct design and code reviews.
• Resolve production incidents and contribute to blameless postmortems.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Testing (unit/integration/contract)

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Math or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenAPI/Swagger

GraphQL tooling

Job description

D.R. Horton in Arlington, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services to design, build, and optimize scalable backend systems and APIs.

You will work with product managers and cross‑functional teams to deliver secure, reliable services in an in‑person role at our Arlington office. Ideal candidates have 5–8 years of backend experience, strong REST and GraphQL expertise, and a solid command of distributed systems and cloud tooling.