Senior Software Engineer - Backend

D.R. Horton•Arlington, TX

3h•Onsite

About The Position

D.R. Horton, Inc. is currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services. The right candidate designs, develops, enhances, and supports scalable backend applications, APIs, and distributed services that power business-critical systems. This role partners with product managers, architects, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performing solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or equivalent education and experience
5-8 years of professional experience developing backend software applications in an enterprise environment
Expert-level proficiency in one or more of our core languages: JavaScript (preferrable), Java or Python, with meaningful production experience in at least one
Deep hands-on experience with message queuing and event streaming platforms
Demonstrated ability to design and deliver production-grade RESTful APIs and GraphQL services, with strong command of schema design, pagination, error handling, and API versioning strategies
Experience authoring meaningful unit tests, integration tests, and contract tests using frameworks such as JUnit, pytest, Jest, or equivalent
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written and oral form or via DRH applications
Ability to sit for majority of 8-hour workday; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and peripheral vision

Nice To Haves

Strong command of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, partition tolerance, idempotency, backpressure, and observability
Track record of shipping large, ambiguous projects with measurable business and technical impact

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency backend services and APIs that handle massive scale across distributed environments
Author and maintain robust RESTful APIs with OpenAPI/Swagger documentation and GraphQL services, ensuring clean schema design, versioning discipline, and performance at scale
Architect and evolve event-driven systems using queueing/streaming technologies, ensuring reliable message delivery, exactly-once semantics, and graceful failure handling
Develop and maintain comprehensive unit, integration, and contract tests to achieve agreed-upon test coverage targets, reduce escaped defects, and support reliable production releases
Manage cloud-hosted environments (Vercel, AWS, or Azure), including networking, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), autoscaling, and cost optimization
Build, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines that enforce quality gates, accelerate delivery, and reduce the risk of production deployments
Make principled architectural decisions that balance pragmatism with long-term system health, articulating trade-offs clearly to peers and leadership
Lead technical design reviews and code reviews, holding the team to a high bar for correctness, performance, testability, and maintainability
Identify and systematically eliminate technical debt, improving velocity and reducing operational burden
Collaborate closely with Product to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions
Debug and resolve complex production incidents quickly, contributing to blameless postmortems and durable remediation
Mentor and sponsor junior and mid-level engineers, accelerating their growth through pairing, thoughtful feedback, and knowledge sharing
Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner to serve customers and increase the goodwill and profit of the company
Ability to travel overnight