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# Backend / Integration Engineer

- **Company:** Innodata Inc
- **Location:** Alexandria, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $156,000.0 - $166,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data as a Services, Datacards, JSON, Queueing Systems, Software Engineering, ReactJS, Apache Spark, Backend, SC Clearance, Information Technology, Front End Software Development, Data Lakehouse, Restful APIs, Servicenow, Databricks
- **Published:** July 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7ce6e069a6661593

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field required. Equivalent experience may substitute for degree on a 2-for-1 basis.
 * 6+ years total professional experience, 4+ years backend or API integration engineering
 * Python backend development - strong, production-grade
 * REST API integration with async job lifecycle patterns (submission, polling, retry, webhook handling)
 * Databricks REST API or strong Spark/Databricks platform familiarity
 * JSON schema design and structured metadata handling
 * Active Secret clearance with TS/SCI eligibility

Nice-to-Have Qualifications:

 * ServiceNow REST API integration experience
 * Federal program API integration background
 * ZenML or ML orchestration pipeline familiarity
 * React or modern frontend experience for storefront skeleton support

## Description

As the Backend/Integration Engineer, you'll build the connective tissue of the platform. You'll develop the data services storefront's backend, stand up ingest pipelines, and implement reliable write-back into our data lakehouse so results flow cleanly across systems. Working alongside the Solution Architect, you'll make sure the platform's components integrate securely and perform under real workloads in a federal (IL4) environment. It's a strong fit for a backend engineer who likes owning integrations and turning architecture into working plumbing., * Implement Databricks REST API write-back for labeled outputs, DataCard provenance records, and synthetic content outputs

 * Build and validate the Duality back-end integration: catalog intake form configuration, parameter translation to Duality generation API, async job lifecycle management (submission, tracking, retry, completion), output handling
 * Implement ServiceNow REST integration for white-glove routing intake path
 * Build and maintain storefront backend services (API layer between frontend UI and platform components)
 * Implement DataCard write-back path in coordination with Solution Architect
 * Design and maintain async job queue management and retry logic across all integration surfaces
 * Structure output metadata for DataCard provenance records per DoD distribution statement requirements


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