Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flex Spending Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Vacation & Holidays

Multiple Benefits

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services to design, develop, and operate scalable backend systems, APIs, and distributed services powering core business apps.

Work with product managers and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, reliable solutions. The ideal candidate has 5–8 years of enterprise backend experience, strong Java, JavaScript, or Python skills, and hands-on experience with queues, streaming, containers, and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or equivalent education and experience
• 5-8 years of professional backend software experience in an enterprise environment
• Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript, Java, or Python with production experience in at least one
• Deep hands-on experience with message queuing and event streaming platforms
• Experience delivering production-grade RESTful APIs and GraphQL services with solid API design
• Experience writing unit, integration, and contract tests using JUnit, pytest, Jest or equivalent
• Ability to read and follow written and verbal instructions and work in a team
• Ability to sit for most of an 8-hour workday and perform standard physical requirements
• Moderate noise level in typical office environments

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-throughput backend services and APIs at scale
• Author RESTful APIs with OpenAPI/Swagger and GraphQL services
• Architect event-driven systems using queues and streams
• Develop and maintain unit, integration, and contract tests
• Manage cloud-hosted environments (AWS/Azure/Vercel) and containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines with quality gates
• Lead architectural and code reviews for performance and correctness
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and promote knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with Product to translate requirements into robust solutions
• Debug production incidents and contribute to durable remediation
• Travel overnight when required

Skills

JavaScript

Java

Python

REST APIs

GraphQL

OpenAPI

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenAPI/Swagger

GraphQL

JUnit

pytest

Jest

AWS

Azure

Job description

Description

D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S., was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high-quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first-time move-up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries. Please visit our website at www.drhorton.com for more information. D.R. Horton, Inc. is currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services. The right candidate designs, develops, enhances, and supports scalable backend applications, APIs, and distributed services that power business-critical systems. This role partners with product managers, architects, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performing solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency backend services and APIs that handle massive scale across distributed environments
• Author and maintain robust RESTful APIs with OpenAPI/Swagger documentation and GraphQL services, ensuring clean schema design, versioning discipline, and performance at scale
• Architect and evolve event-driven systems using queueing/streaming technologies, ensuring reliable message delivery, exactly‑once semantics, and graceful failure handling
• Develop and maintain comprehensive unit, integration, and contract tests to achieve agreed‑upon test coverage targets, reduce escaped defects, and support reliable production releases
• Manage cloud‑hosted environments (Vercel, AWS, or Azure), including networking, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), autoscaling, and cost optimization
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines that enforce quality gates, accelerate delivery, and reduce the risk of production deployments
• Make principled architectural decisions that balance pragmatism with long‑term system health, articulating trade‑offs clearly to peers and leadership
• Lead technical design reviews and code reviews, holding the team to a high bar for correctness, performance, testability, and maintainability
• Identify and systematically eliminate technical debt, improving velocity and reducing operational burden
• Collaborate closely with Product to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions
• Debug and resolve complex production incidents quickly, contributing to blameless postmortems and durable remediation
• Mentor and sponsor junior and mid‑level engineers, accelerating their growth through pairing, thoughtful feedback, and knowledge sharing
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner to serve customers and increase the goodwill and profit of the company
• Ability to travel overnight

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or equivalent education and experience
• 5-8 years of professional experience developing backend software applications in an enterprise environment
• Expert‑level proficiency in one or more of our core languages: JavaScript (preferrable), Java or Python, with meaningful production experience in at least one
• Deep hands‑on experience with message queuing and event streaming platforms
• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver production‑grade RESTful APIs and GraphQL services, with strong command of schema design, pagination, error handling, and API versioning strategies
• Experience authoring meaningful unit tests, integration tests, and contract tests using frameworks such as JUnit, pytest, Jest, or equivalent
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written and oral form or via DRH applications
• Ability to sit for majority of 8‑hour workday; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and peripheral vision
• The noise level is generally moderate

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong command of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, partition tolerance, idempotency, backpressure, and observability
• Track record of shipping large, ambiguous projects with measurable business and technical impact

Benefits

We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401(K)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays
• Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits

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