Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services

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

Job Description - Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services (2605400)

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. This is an in-person role in our Arlington, TX office.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

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

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

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

Come joina winning team with a Fortune 500 company! We are growing fast and arelooking for enthusiastic attitudes and team players to join our success. We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 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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