Senior Backend Developer

October 28, 2026

Job Description

Company: Maximus
Location: San Antonio, TX
Workplace Type: On-site
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $135,000.00 – $165,000.00

About the Role

The Senior Backend Developer provides subject matter proficiency for the USAF mission, responsible for analytical skills to support process improvement, specialized studies, and definition of requirements. This role involves engineering tasks for back-end design and development efforts.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Developing back-end architectures to support current and new system capabilities and integrations
  • RESTful API development and modification
  • Database management and data model development and optimization
  • Performing engineering tasks for back-end design and development efforts

Requirements & Qualifications

  • 10 years of overall experience in the functional area
  • Bachelor’s degree required (Master’s may substitute for 2 years)
  • 10 years of software development experience in object-oriented and scripted languages with DevSecOps, microservices, and containers tool suites
  • 5 years of recent and relevant experience performing back-end web design and development
  • 5 years’ experience in Python and PostgreSQL
  • 10 years of relational database experience; at least 5 years PostgreSQL applied experience

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • CSSLP, CISSP, AWS Solutions Architect Professional or other relevant certifications
  • Experience integrating data from unclassified to classified application deployments
  • 5 years of DoD software development experience

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Health insurance coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • A retirement savings plan
  • Paid holidays and paid time off

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer.