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Backend Software Engineer (Remote)

Serigor Inc.

Job Title: Backend Software Engineer

Location: Remote (onshore US, excluding CA) EST hours

Duration: 6 months plus potential extension, Contract

Job Description:

Builds and operates the core APIs, services, orchestration layers, integrations, and business capabilities. This role combines strong software engineering discipline with agentic development practices to deliver secure, scalable, resilient services from design through production operation.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, test, deploy, and operate cloud-native backend services, APIs, workflows, and integration capabilities.
  • Implement business logic, orchestration services, domain services, event-driven patterns, and service composition required by project workstreams.
  • Develop integrations with enterprise systems, third-party platforms, data services, pricing/underwriting capabilities, and AI/agent services.
  • Leverage AI coding agents and engineering copilots to accelerate development while maintaining strong review, testing, and production quality practices.
  • Create automated Unit, integration, contract, regression, and performance tests as part of the delivery lifecycle.
  • Contribute to API standards, reusable patterns, golden paths, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and service reliability practices.
  • Own production readiness, monitoring, incident response, defect remediation, and continuous improvement for delivered services.
  • Collaborate with Analysts and Product Owners to ensure requirements, contracts, and acceptance criteria are clear and technically executable.

Minimum Education and Experience:

  • Degree required (field of study and level not specified by the client).
  • Strong backend development with 7+ years of experience.
  • Java, Python, .NET, Node.js or TypeScript.
  • Experience in a Microservices architecture.
  • AWS Cloud.
  • Experience leveraging AI Agents (Claude) for software engineering.

Preferred Experience / Capabilities:

  • Backend development experience with Java, Python, .NET, Node.js, TypeScript, or equivalent enterprise technologies.
  • API-first design, microservices, service orchestration, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems patterns.
  • AWS cloud services, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, secrets management, and automated deployment practices.
  • Experience with contract testing, automated quality gates, performance tuning, observability, and production support.
  • Comfortable working in an AI-assisted delivery environment where engineers guide, review, harden, and operationalize agent-generated outputs.

Differentiators (Client's own wording):

  • Not a narrow coder role; expected to shape the service architecture and own outcomes through production.
  • Understands how to reduce dependencies through strong contracts and self-service platform patterns.

Soft Skills:

  • Self-starter.
  • Ability to speak up and show initiative.
  • Ability to communicate cross-functionally and to leadership on initiative updates.
  • MUST have ability to communicate effectively.

Skills:

Skill

Required/

Desired

Strong backend development experience.

Required

7+

Years

Java, Python, .NET, Node.js or TypeScript.

Required

Years

Microservices architecture.

Required

Years

AWS Cloud services.

Required

Years

Leveraging AI Agents (Claude) for software engineering.

Required

Years

API-first design, service orchestration, event-driven architecture and distributed systems patterns.

Required

Years

Cloud-native backend services, APIs, workflows and integration capabilities design through production.

Required

Years

Automated testing unit, integration, contract, regression and performance.

Required

Years

CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containers, secrets management.

Required

Years

Production ownership readiness, monitoring, incident response, defect remediation.

Required

Years

Integrations with enterprise systems, third-party platforms and AI/agent services.

Required

Years

Degree.

Required

Contract testing, automated quality gates, performance tuning and observability.

Desired

Years

Mortgage lending or finance industry background.

Desired

Years

Pricing or underwriting platform experience.

Desired

Years

Generative AI / LLM application development, RAG, agent orchestration (dropped from the revamped JD bonus only).

Desired

Years

Ontology modeling, taxonomies, knowledge graphs and semantic technologies (dropped from the revamped JD bonus only).

Desired

Years

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