Back End Engineer

Job Summary

To support the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the full-time Back End Engineer will develop, test, and maintain secure back-end services, including building APIs and contributing to platform improvements, all while working remotely.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain secure back-end services for VA web applications and digital forms
• Build APIs for form logic, submission handling, and integration with VA systems and third-party platforms
• Support devops practices and ensure backend systems are reliable and performant at scale

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in back-end engineering (Rails, Python, or similar)
• Experience with RESTful API development and microservices architecture
• Familiarity with AWS (especially GovCloud) or other cloud infrastructure
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL or DynamoDB
• Bachelor's degree