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# Software Engineer - Backend

- **Company:** Caseguard, Inc.
- **Location:** Arlington, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** ASP.NET, Multitier Architecture, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Business Logic, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Fault Tolerance, NoSQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Queueing Systems, Redis, Distributed Caching, Software Engineering, AWS Cdk, Multithreading, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Backend, Cloudformation, Event Driven Architecture, Build Management, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Asynchronous Programming, Api Design, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5a7c9df2f7ea406e

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experiences
 * 2+ years backend experience with REST APIs
 * Strong OOP fundamentals and critical thinking under ambiguity
 * Experience with relational databases and SQL, including schema design, indexes, and transactions.
 * Experience with Redis or distributed caching.
 * A track record of modeling business logic into databases
 * Comfort working independently on complex, underspecified problems

Qualifications (It's a plus):

 * Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and fault-tolerance patterns.
 * Familiarity with API design patterns such as Clean Architecture.
 * Experience processing PDFs, images, videos, or other large binary files.
 * Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB).
 * Practical knowledge of IaC tools (e.g., AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation).
 * Experience with containerization tools (e.g., Docker) and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes).
 * Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queues (e.g., SNS, SQS, EventBridge).
 * Knowledge of asynchronous programming and multi-threading in C#.
 * Relevant AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer)

## Description

We are seeking a highly independent and proactive Software Engineer to join our backend team and play a critical role in building REST API microservices from scratch using ASP.NET Core (C#) and building cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in AWS. In this role, you will contribute to collaborative file redacting tool with exciting features like live editing, image processing and more

What you will do:

 * Model business domains into relational/NoSQL data structures
 * Design and build scalable REST APIs for our microservices using ASP.NET Core (C#).
 * Build heavy file-processing workers optimized for CPU/memory/throughput
 * Design AWS infrastructure with IaC
 * Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to decisions for system design and service structure.


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