Software Engineer

DPR Construction; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DPR Construction designs, develops, and maintains scalable full-stack applications, translating requirements into secure, high-performing software aligned with cloud-first and API-first principles.

The team contributes to engineering standards, DevOps practices, and system reliability while collaborating with product managers and cross-functional teams to deliver usable, high-performance solutions.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience in full-stack development, software engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements front-end interfaces and back-end services using modern frameworks and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Develops and maintains RESTful and GraphQL APIs aligned with enterprise integration and API lifecycle standards.
• Writes optimized database queries and supports integration with enterprise data platforms to enable secure and efficient data access.
• Participates in peer code reviews, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and adherence to established engineering standards.
• Evaluates scope changes and provides level-of-effort estimates to support sprint planning and prioritization decisions.
• Supports CI/CD processes, automated testing frameworks, and secure deployment pipelines to maintain release stability.
• Collaborates with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to enhance usability, performance, and technical feasibility of solutions.

Skills

Full-stack development

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

DevOps practices

Education

Orchestrates AI agents across the development lifecycle—from feature implementation to unit testing and code review—by writing prompts, configuring agent workflows, and validating outputs to ensure production-ready quality

Tools

Cloud-native architectures

Job description

Job Summary:

Designs, develops, and maintains scalable full-stack applications using modern front-end and back-end frameworks. Translates functional and technical requirements into secure, high-performing software solutions aligned with cloud-first and API-first development principles. Contributes to continuous improvement of engineering standards, DevOps practices, and system reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designs and implements front-end interfaces and back-end services using modern frameworks and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Develops and maintains RESTful and GraphQL APIs aligned with enterprise integration and API lifecycle standards.
• Writes optimized database queries and supports integration with enterprise data platforms to enable secure and efficient data access.
• Participates in peer code reviews, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and adherence to established engineering standards.
• Evaluates scope changes and provides level-of-effort estimates to support sprint planning and prioritization decisions.
• Supports CI/CD processes, automated testing frameworks, and secure deployment pipelines to maintain release stability.
• Collaborates with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to enhance usability, performance, and technical feasibility of solutions.

Education Qualifications:

• Orchestrates AI agents across the development lifecycle—from feature implementation to unit testing and code review—by writing effective prompts, configuring agent workflows, and validating outputs to ensure production-ready quality with minimal rework.

Work Experience:

• 2–4 years of experience in full-stack development, software engineering, or related field required.

DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world. Working at DPR, you’ll have the chance to try new things, explore paths and shape your future.

Here, we build opportunity together—by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.

Explore our open opportunities at www.dpr.com/careers. The DPR family of companies is closing the gap between design and construction with an integrated collection of products and services to build smarter, move faster and achieve strong results. Our approximately 11,000 employees share a commitment to growth, innovation and building great things—great teams, great careers and great projects that change the world.

DPR is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at DPR are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical or mental disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, medical history or genetic information, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. DPR will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Read more in our EEOE Policy.

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