[Remote] Staff Backend Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DRS IT Solutions Inc is seeking a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer/Technical Lead to own a production backend service end to end. The role focuses on designing, developing, deploying, and operating backend services while working across application, infrastructure, security, and product teams.

Responsibilities

• This person must be capable of independently designing, developing, deploying, and operating a production backend service while working effectively across application, infrastructure, security, and product teams

Skills

• This person must be capable of independently designing, developing, deploying, and operating a production backend service while working effectively across application, infrastructure, security, and product teams
• Strong production experience with Kotlin or Java/JVM and Spring Boot
• Experience designing and supporting REST APIs and distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of MongoDB or Amazon DocumentDB , including data modeling, indexing, migrations, concurrency, and atomic updates
• Experience with Kafka, Avro, Schema Registry, asynchronous processing, retries, and idempotency
• Hands-on deployment experience with AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD
• Working knowledge of AWS IAM/IRSA, secrets management/Vault, and service networking
• Strong testing practices, including unit and integration testing with tools such as Testcontainers
• Experience with production observability, troubleshooting, incident response, and safe rollback strategies
• Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to drive cross-functional work with minimal supervision
• This is primarily a backend and platform-oriented role , not a frontend, pure DevOps, people-management, or machine-learning position
• We need a senior individual contributor who remains hands-on and can take end-to-end ownership of the service
• Temporal workflows
• Confluent Cloud
• Istio and OPA
• OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or Honeycomb
• Gradle, CircleCI, Jib, Cosign, and Snyk
• Legacy-system modernization or migration projects

Company Overview

DRS IT Solutions Inc is a Women-Owned boutique recruiting firm, headquartered in Novi, Michigan. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in Novi, Michigan, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.drsitsolutions.com .

Company H1B Sponsorship

DRS IT Solutions Inc has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023, 1 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.