Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services

Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services (2605400)

Description

• D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S., was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high-quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first time move-up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries. Please visit our website at www.drhorton.com for more information.

• 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. This is an in-person role in our Arlington, TX office.

• Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• 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

Qualifications

• Education and/or Experience

• 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

• The noise level is generally moderate

• Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Come join a winning team with a Fortune 500 company! We are growing fast and are looking for enthusiastic attitudes and team players to join our success. We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental and Vision

• 401(K)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Flex Spending Accounts

• Life & Disability Insurance

• Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays

• Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits

• Build YOUR future with D.R. Horton, America’s Builder. #WeBuildPeopleToo