[Hiring] Back-End Developer IV @Kentro

Role Description

Kentro is hiring a Back-End Developer IV to serve as lead back-end developer on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Accelerated Transformation of Legacy Applications and Systems (ATLAS) program — one of the largest civilian IT modernization efforts in the federal government. In this role you translate portfolio architecture into server-side engineering patterns that back-end teams across the portfolio build against.

• Define and implement server-side engineering patterns within established enterprise architecture and platform standards.
• Establish and maintain back-end implementation patterns — microservices, event-driven, API-first, domain decomposition.
• Lead complex system integrations across legacy and modernized systems.
• Design portfolio and application service/API layers in alignment with the enterprise API and integration strategy.
• Architect and implement messaging and streaming infrastructure.
• Design serverless and event-driven processing built around that infrastructure.
• Drive decomposition of legacy monoliths into services.
• Lead database modernization work on the back end.
• Set and enforce back-end engineering standards.
• Own non-functional outcomes for back-end services.
• Integrate security into back-end design.
• Build and maintain reusable back-end assets.
• Provide technical leadership, design review, and code review to back-end engineers.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, front-end, data, and cybersecurity leads.
• Write production code on the highest-complexity components as necessary.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• 8–10 years of progressive back-end development experience.
• Expert-level proficiency in one or more major server-side stacks.
• Deep experience designing and operating enterprise APIs.
• Hands-on expertise with messaging and event-driven systems.
• Proven experience leading complex system integrations.
• Demonstrated experience decomposing monolithic applications into microservices.
• Strong database expertise across relational and non-relational stores.
• Cloud-native back-end experience in a major cloud environment.
• Practical DevSecOps experience.
• Ability to set standards and communicate technical trade-offs.
• Experience implementing observability, resilience, and performance engineering.
• Exceptional communication and executive presence.
• Working proficiency with approved AI-assisted development tools.

Requirements

• US Citizen.
• Existing FAA suitability determination or transferable federal background investigation strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package including paid time off and healthcare benefits.
• 401k including an employer match.
• Education reimbursement for certifications, degrees, or professional development.
• Flexibility for professional growth and networking.
• Activities for team bonding and community engagement.