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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Experis
- **Location:** Greenwood Village, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $114,400 - $145,600
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** User Authentication, Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, OAuth, OpenID, Openid Connect, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Spring-boot, Technical Debt, Backend, Api Gateway, Restful APIs
- **Published:** November 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=76b80ebb4c317319

## About the Role

The ideal candidate will have strong RESTful API and distributed systems experience, proven authentication and authorization expertise, and the drive to reduce technical debt while modernizing backend services., * 5+ years of professional Java backend development experience.

 * Strong experience building RESTful APIs and distributed systems.
 * Hands-on experience with authentication and authorization technologies and security protocol implementation.
 * Experience with Spring Boot and modern Java frameworks.
 * Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision, ramping up quickly in complex environments.

## Description

As a Backend Engineer, you will be part of contributing to enterprise-scale API Gateway and Identity & Access Management (IAM) initiatives., * Design, enhance, and maintain authentication and authorization services that support customer-facing and internal applications.

 * Build and secure enterprise API Gateway integrations and backend services, strengthening security controls across the platform.
 * Reduce technical debt by improving legacy code, refactoring for quality, and modernizing backend systems for internal business reporting.
 * Implement and troubleshoot OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, SAML, and related security protocols.
 * Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining engineering standards and reliability.