Senior Software Engineer - Backend
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.
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
Ability to travel overnight