Accenture
Backend Application Engineer
$84K–$196K
Washington, DC +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- Washington, DC
Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Experience
- Professional experience required; no specific number of years stated. Deeper experience may include leading complex application work, mentoring, and defining engineering patterns.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience is a bonus, not a stated requirement.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship required. Applicants must have U.S. work authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.
About the job
Builds and maintains backend services, APIs, business logic, data interactions, and integrations for federal enterprise applications, including modernization and production support.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, and maintain application services, APIs, data-access layers, and integrations.
- Modernize legacy components and apply secure coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, and performance practices.
- Collaborate across engineering and client teams; use approved AI-assisted tools, and increasingly lead services or mentor engineers as experience grows.
What they ask for
- Professional experience in back-end, application, software, API, or integration engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Hands-on development in at least one modern enterprise language, such as Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, or comparable.
- Experience building or consuming REST APIs, services, business logic, or enterprise integrations; and working with relational or NoSQL databases.
- Experience with code-assist technologies and understanding of automated testing, source control, code review, debugging, CI/CD, and Agile delivery; U.S. citizenship required.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with application frameworks, microservices or messaging, cloud technologies, modernization, secure development, or federal delivery.
Pay
$83,600 — $196,000 USD (base pay)
Tools
Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, REST APIs, Spring/Spring Boot, .NET
AI focus
Use AFS-approved AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate coding, testing, refactoring, documentation, and analysis, while validating outputs; code-assist experience is required.
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