Business Application Engineer

You are:

An application engineer who enjoys turning complex business and mission needs into dependable enterprise software.

You build the services, APIs, business logic, data interactions, and integrations that power federal applications.

You may be developing your foundation across back-end engineering or already be ready to independently own services, integrations, and meaningful application workstreams.

This capability is intentionally broader than a single programming language.

As your experience grows, you may lead application modernization efforts, define service and integration patterns, mentor engineers, and influence architecture and engineering standards across teams.

The work:

• Design, build, test, and maintain enterprise application services, APIs, business logic, data-access layers, and integrations.
• Develop solutions using languages and frameworks appropriate to the problem, including Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, or comparable technologies.
• Integrate applications with databases, messaging platforms, external services, legacy systems, cloud services, and enterprise platforms.
• Modernize legacy application components and help decompose tightly coupled systems into maintainable services and reusable capabilities.
• Write automated unit, integration, and API tests and participate in code reviews, CI/CD, debugging, release support, and production issue resolution.
• Apply secure coding, API design, error handling, logging, observability, performance, and data-integrity practices throughout development.
• Use AFS-approved AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows to accelerate coding, testing, refactoring, documentation, and analysis while validating outputs.
• Partner with Product Managers, Digital Experience Engineers, Quality Engineers, Cloud Platform Engineers, architects, security teams, and client stakeholders.
• As your experience grows, lead complex services or application areas, establish technical patterns, mentor engineers, and shape modernization and architecture decisions.

Here's what you need:

• Professional experience in back-end, application, software, API, or integration engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on development experience in at least one modern enterprise language such as Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, or a comparable language.