Backend Software Engineer

Insight Global is hiring for 5 Backend Software Engineers for a healthcare client in Austin, TX. As a Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping and implementing the technology strategy across software delivery teams. You will architect and develop scalable, resilient, and reusable software solutions that accelerate delivery and improve engineering efficiency. This role requires a deep understanding of modern software engineering patterns, a strong desire to mentor others, and a passion for elevating engineering practices. You will work closely with product, architecture, and engineering leadership to translate business objectives into actionable technical solutions. Through hands-on design sessions, technical prototyping, and code reviews, you will influence engineering behaviors and help establish high standards for quality, security, performance, and maintainability. Your work will directly impact the organization’s ability to achieve long-term strategic goals.

Essential Job Functions

• Design, develop, test, deploy, monitor, and continuously improve backend services and APIs using modern engineering practices.

• Build scalable, maintainable, reusable components (libraries, patterns, frameworks, tooling) that address cross-cutting needs across multiple delivery teams.

• Collaborate with product and design to translate product concepts into technical designs and incremental deliverables that provide frequent, high-quality customer value.

• Partner with architecture to help establish, document, and advocate for technical standards, design patterns, and best practices.

• Participate in and help lead technical design sessions, spike investigations, and architecture reviews, ensuring alignment with long-term platform strategy.

Influence engineering behaviors through hands-on design sessions and code reviews, and mentor engineers to strengthen team capability.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related technical field; advanced degrees preferred.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend emphasis

• Strong proficiency building backend services and APIs, with experience in C# and .NET Core / ASP.NET Core preferred

• Experience designing and supporting production services (availability, observability, performance, maintainability).

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD concepts and tooling (build/release pipelines, automated tests, quality gates).

• Working experience in cloud environments, with Azure strongly preferred.

• Exposure to AI-enabled development tools, code generation models, or ML-driven insights (e.g., Copilot, embedding models, vector search). * Open toengineers from other technology stack- particularly “polyglot engineers” with experience across multiple languages and platforms (Java, Golang, Python, and/or C#, .Net etc)

• Open to candidates with AWS Cloud and Python experience, especially those who have worked on AI-enabled or AI-assisted development