[Hiring] Senior Backend Software Engineer @ASRC Federal

Role Description

ASRC Federal is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer with strong experience in ETL development and relational database performance for a remote, full-time position. This role will design, develop, and optimize data pipelines and the database backend supporting our applications. Primary responsibilities include:

• Implementing data ingestion and transformation workflows.
• Developing ORM-based data access using Java persistence frameworks.
• Optimizing SQL and database operations.

The ideal candidate is passionate about building robust, scalable systems and can troubleshoot performance across Java application code, ORM-generated queries, and relational databases. Backend services and API development will support data integration, processing, and retrieval.

Qualifications

• Strong Java development experience building and supporting production backend applications.
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, and maintaining ETL pipelines and data integration workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Spring, ORM and persistence frameworks such as JPA/Hibernate.
• Experience writing and optimizing JPQL and SQL queries, including troubleshooting ORM-generated SQL.
• Strong SQL proficiency, including complex joins, common table expressions, window functions, aggregations, and set-based processing.
• Experience analyzing database execution plans and improving query performance through indexing and query changes.
• Experience with relational data modeling, schema migrations, entity relationships, and transaction management.
• Understanding of database isolation levels, locking, and concurrency.
• Experience implementing data validation, incremental processing, error handling, and recoverable data workflows.
• Experience with version control, code review, automated testing, and software deployment practices.
• Ability to explain production performance improvements using measured results.

Requirements

• Experience with workflow orchestration, job scheduling, change data capture, and pipeline monitoring.
• Experience diagnosing ORM performance issues such as N+1 queries, inefficient relationship loading, and excessive entity loading.
• Experience processing large datasets within defined delivery windows while managing database resource utilization.
• Familiarity with Apache Spark for ETL and distributed data processing.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits packages.
• Health care, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Education assistance.
• Paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law.

Company Description

ASRC Federal is a leading government contractor furthering missions in space, public health, and defense. As an Alaska Native owned corporation, our work helps secure an enduring future for our shareholders. Join our team and discover why we are a top veteran employer and Certified Great Place to Work™.