Backend Developer

Backend Developer We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer who will design, build, and maintain backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities. This role combines strong backend engineering with hands-on involvement in release readiness, production deployment, monitoring, and cross-team coordination. You will contribute to high-impact technical decisions, maintain engineering excellence, and help drive smooth, reliable release cycles. What You Will Do Partner with technical leaders to contribute to architecture, design frameworks, and roadmap planning. Provide engineering guidance during early-stage designs and ensure strong technical execution. Build reliable, scalable distributed systems and backend services. Lead key technical decisions for high-risk or high-impact initiatives. Drive features from prototype to production with end-to-end ownership. Collaborate with product, architecture, security, digital, and engineering teams. Work effectively in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities. Take ownership in a remote/hybrid setup and ensure strong communication across teams. Identify customer pain points and propose self‐service automation solutions. Promote innovation, continuous improvement, and a positive, collaborative team culture. Required Qualifications 5+ years of software development experience. Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Angular. Experience working with cloud platforms (GCP, Azure) and end-to-end DevOps pipelines. Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and design patterns. 3+ years building and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems. Hands-on experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Strong skills with relational and/or NoSQL databases. Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring release readiness. Experience supporting production deployments and performing post‐deployment validation. Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and sprint planning. Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. Ability to lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers. High level of ownership and ability to operate with minimal guidance. Preferred Qualifications Experience in healthcare domains (PBM, NCPDP, HIPAA). Background in roles combining development + release/operations. Experience with Application & Performance Monitoring tools. Knowledge of Pub/Sub, Kafka, or other event-driven messaging systems. Exposure to SRE/DevOps practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis. Education Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field – or equivalent experience. InterSources