Senior Backend Engineer

System Contribution & Collaboration

Must-Have Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience building and maintaining backend systems and APIs in production environments.
• Solid backend architecture skills — you can design APIs, data models, and service boundaries that hold up under real production load.
• Strong experience with AWS at the application layer — Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EC2, ECS/EKS, CloudFormation, or equivalent services.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, containerized deployments, and microservice architecture.
• Strong Python and/or Node.js skills in a production backend context.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code.
• This position is not eligible for H-1B sponsorship.
• Willingness to work on-site in Columbia, MD, in a hybrid capacity.
• Meet Quidient, customer, and government security requirements, which may include, but are not limited to a background check, citizenship verification, and Criminal Justice Information Services verification.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications:

• Familiarity with serverless architecture (AWS Lambda) and event-driven backend design.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts.
• Knowledge of security best practices including IAM, encryption, and OAuth/OpenID implementation.
• Background in 3D imaging, computer vision, or graphics processing pipelines.
• Experience with high-performance computing or low-latency data processing.
• Experience at an AWS consulting partner, service company, or in an AWS-heavy product engineering environment.

Compensation:

• Salary Range: $100,000 - $120,000.
• Annual bonus and equity as appropriate.

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• HSA
• 401(k) with company match
• Life & disability insurance
• Paid holidays & generous PTO
• Opportunities for bonuses, equity, and career growth

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement