Senior Backend Software as a Service Engineer

We Are

Accenture LearnVantage helps organizations transform how their people learn and work through technology and innovative learning solutions. We partner with enterprise clients to deliver scalable, outcome-driven learning experiences that combine digital learning platforms, emerging technologies, and workforce transformation expertise.

The LearnVantage Engineering team builds and operates the technology platforms that power these experiences at enterprise scale. Our engineers develop secure, reliable, and high-performance systems supporting learners, administrators, customers, and partners across a global learning ecosystem.

You Are

A highly capable back-end software engineer with experience designing, building, and operating production systems at scale. You are comfortable owning services through the full software development lifecycle - from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, observability, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

You have strong experience with modern back-end technologies, cloud-native development, APIs, microservices, relational databases, containerized environments, and enterprise integrations. You work effectively across Engineering, Product, Design, and Operations and can independently take complex problems from requirements through production delivery.

You are also comfortable using modern AI-assisted software development tools as part of your engineering workflow to accelerate implementation, investigation, testing, and technical analysis.

The Work

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable back-end services, APIs, and microservices supporting LearnVantage products.
• Build robust, secure, and reliable systems supporting complex enterprise learning and administration workflows.
• Own technical solutions from initial design through production deployment and ongoing operation.
• Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Operations, and other stakeholders to translate product and enterprise requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Build and maintain integrations between LearnVantage and enterprise platforms, partner systems, and external services.
• Improve existing systems for performance, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Design and work with relational data models and production databases.
• Develop and operate containerized applications in cloud environments.
• Build and maintain automated testing, CI/CD, deployment, and observability practices.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and improve system resilience and availability.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and code reviews.
• Apply software engineering best practices across code quality, testing, security, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software delivery while maintaining appropriate engineering review, testing, and quality standards.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering standards, development practices, and platform architecture.

Travel may be required for this role.  The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's What You Need

• Minimum of 3 years of professional software engineering experience in a product-oriented, live production environment.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining production-quality back-end services and microservices using languages such as Go, Node.js/TypeScript, or Python, including REST and/or GraphQL APIs, relational databases such as PostgreSQL, and scalable distributed systems.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with AWS or another major public cloud platform, including hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience developing or supporting enterprise SaaS products or platforms, including authentication, application security, system integrations, and troubleshooting production issues affecting reliability, availability, or performance.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience using AI-assisted software development tools for coding, debugging, technical investigation, testing, or code review.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related field) or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience.

Professional Skills Requirements

• Ability to independently drive technical work from requirements and design through production delivery.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Product, Design, Operations, and other cross-functional teams.
• Strong technical problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/03/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/benefits

Role Location                                    Annual Salary Range

California                                           $70,350 to $205,800

Colorado                                             $63,800 to $177,800

Connecticut                                        $63,800 to $177,800

District of Columbia                            $68,000 to $189,300

Illinois                                              $59,100 to $177,800

Maine                                                 $54,400 to $151,400

Maryland                                               $63,800 to $177,800

Massachusetts                                    $63,800 to $189,300

Minnesota                                           $63,800 to $177,800

New York                                              $66,300 to $205,800

New Jersey                                           $68,000 to $205,800

Ohio                                                 $59,100 to $164,600

Virginia                                              $59,100 to $189,300

Washington                                       $80,200 to $189,300

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us atwww.accenture.com

What We Believe 

We have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment. 

Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. Read more here 

Requesting An Accommodation 

Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.

If you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with Accenture and have accommodation needs such as for a disability or religious observance, please call us toll free at 1 (877) 889-9009 or send us an email or speak with your recruiter.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement 

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, military veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

For details, view a copy of the  Accenture Equal Opportunity Statement

Accenture is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

Other Employment Statements 

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process. Further, at Accenture a criminal conviction history is not an absolute bar to employment. 

The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Additionally, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company's legal duty to furnish information.

California requires additional notifications for applicants and employees. If you are a California resident, live in or plan to work from Los Angeles County upon being hired for this position, please click here for additional important information.

Please read Accenture’s Recruiting and Hiring Statement for more information on how we process your data during the Recruiting and Hiring process.