Senior Software Engineer - Backend

D.R. Horton, Inc. • Arlington, TX • 2h ago

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 atwww.drhorton.comfor more information.

D.R. Horton, Inc.is currently looking for aSenior Software Engineer - Backend Services. The right candidatedesigns, 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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilitiesinclude 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

Developand 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

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

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Title: Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Location: TX-Arlington

Requisition ID: 2603708

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