Backend Application Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><div> <div> </div> <div>At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. </div> <div> </div> <div>Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more. </div> <div> </div> <div>Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!</div> <div> </div> </div></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>You are: </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Backend Application Engineer who enjoys turning complex business and mission needs into dependable enterprise software. You build the services, APIs, business logic, data interactions, and integrations that power federal applications. You may be developing your foundation across back-end engineering or already be ready to independently own services, integrations, and meaningful application workstreams. This capability is intentionally broader than a single programming language. As your experience grows, you may lead application modernization efforts, define service and integration patterns, mentor engineers, and influence architecture and engineering standards across teams.<br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>The work:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Design, build, test, and maintain enterprise application services, APIs, business logic, data-access layers, and integrations.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop solutions using languages and frameworks appropriate to the problem, including Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, or comparable technologies.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Integrate applications with databases, messaging platforms, external services, legacy systems, cloud services, and enterprise platforms.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Modernize legacy application components and help decompose tightly coupled systems into maintainable services and reusable capabilities.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Write automated unit, integration, and API tests and participate in code reviews, CI/CD, debugging, release support, and production issue resolution.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Apply secure coding, API design, er