[Remote] Lead Backend Engineer (API Architect)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CMB Regional Centers is seeking a hands-on Lead Backend Engineer to modernize their enterprise data and integration platform. The role involves designing and implementing APIs and services, establishing integration standards, and leading a long-term modernization strategy while ensuring secure access to enterprise data.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement APIs and services that provide secure access to enterprise data
- Create integration patterns that support current and future business applications
- Develop a strategy for reducing direct database dependencies while preserving the database as the organization's source of truth
- Establish service-based access patterns for internal applications, reporting platforms, CRM systems, and future AI initiatives
- Design, develop, test, and maintain production backend applications and APIs
- Create reusable frameworks, shared services, and integration components
- Perform code reviews and establish coding standards
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Define API standards, security models, and integration best practices
- Evaluate current systems and recommend modernization opportunities
- Guide technical decisions related to data access, application integration, and platform evolution
- Create technical documentation and architecture standards
- Implement unit testing frameworks and testing standards
- Establish code quality expectations and development workflows
- Introduce CI/CD practices and deployment automation where appropriate
- Promote maintainable, testable, and supportable software development practices
- Support the organization's transition from legacy reporting solutions to modern reporting and analytics platforms
- Create integration patterns that support future CRM initiatives
- Enable future AI and automation capabilities through secure, governed APIs and services
Skills
- Strong experience with .NET development and backend application design
- Strong SQL Server and database integration experience
- Experience designing and building REST APIs and service-based architectures
- Experience working with legacy application environments and modernization efforts
- Experience implementing automated testing and software quality practices
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to independently drive technical initiatives from concept through implementation
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with programming experience required
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Experience with enterprise application integration
- Experience with authentication, authorization, and API security
- Experience with reporting platforms such as SSRS, Power BI, or similar tools
- Experience supporting CRM implementations and integrations
- Experience with CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
- Experience enabling AI, automation, or data-driven initiatives through API-based architectures
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