Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Marriott • Bethesda, MD

3d • $100,400 - $198,100

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer – Backend at Marriott, you will design, develop, and support scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services that power Marriott’s global digital platforms. You will build enterprise APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, REST, and GraphQL.

You will collaborate with product owners, architects, engineering teams, QA, DevOps, security, and platform teams to deliver resilient backend capabilities that integrate with enterprise systems, authentication platforms, customer data services, and third-party applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years of hands-on backend development.
• Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, or comparable enterprise backend technologies.
• Strong experience designing RESTful/GraphQL APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with relational/NoSQL databases, caching, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience building cloud-native applications using AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, scalability, resiliency, and performance.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and production troubleshooting.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Spring Security, Spring Data, Node.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, NGINX, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Experience implementing resiliency patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, timeouts, and graceful degradation.
• Familiarity with Git, JIRA, Jenkins, Harness, Dynatrace, and similar DevOps and observability tools.
• Experience with API performance optimization, distributed systems, and production-scale applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, high-performance backend services and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, or similar technologies.
• Design and build RESTful and GraphQL APIs for web, mobile, partner, and enterprise integrations.
• Architect cloud-native and distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resiliency, cache, security, and performance.
• Integrate services with enterprise APIs, databases, authentication platforms, messaging systems, and third-party services.
• Design and support event-driven and asynchronous integrations using APIs, events, queues, and messaging.
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical design, code reviews, and technology evaluations; mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Develop automated tests and contribute to CI/CD, cloud deployments, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across APIs, microservices, databases, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum planning, estimation, refinement, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan
• Stock purchase plan
• Discounts at Marriott properties
• Commuter benefits
• Employee assistance plan
• Childcare discounts
• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Health care flexible spending account
• Dependent care flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Accident insurance
• Adoption expense reimbursements
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance
• Washington employees accrue paid sick leave and receive a minimum of 9 holidays annually.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior