The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  HFF is hiring a Backend Developer in Fort Smith, AR.

• Role description

  The Backend Developer we hire will help scale our infrastructure from thousands to millions of concurrent users. Weigh it however you like — the math still lands at $77,000 - $106,000, internship hours, and a team at HFF worth joining.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Monitor system health and set up alerting for proudly-nerdy production environments
  • Refine and maintain microservices that support HFF customers in Fort Smith, AR
  • Set the GitHub Actions coding standards the rest of HFF engineering follows
  • Decode the undocumented MongoDB service nobody at HFF remembers writing
  • Keep Stress Management schemas backward-compatible so HFF never forces a breaking upgrade
  • Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence
  • Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the HFF stack

  What You'll Bring

  • Proven aptitude for Time Management, ideally near Fort Smith, AR
  • Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near Fort Smith, AR
  • The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly
  • A Fort Smith grounding, or the adaptability to plant roots quickly
  • Reliable, accountable, and committed to following through
  • Knowledge of AR-specific regulations relevant to technology work
  • Comfort owning technology decisions in an AR market

  Founded in Fort Smith, AR during a downturn, HFF grew ruthlessly-focused and lean while flashier technology rivals burned out. We hire for character and detail-focused thinking, then trust the rest to follow.

  We start the conversation at $77,000 - $106,000 and end it with mentorship, benefits, and the flexibility to grow without relocating from AR.

  Refreshed minutes ago, this Backend Developer req is wide open and taking applications.

  Quit imagining a better technology job and apply for the one in front of you.

• Required skills

  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • Spring Boot
  • Jest
  • Microservices
  • Google Cloud
  • Kotlin
  • Docker
  • MongoDB
  • Unit Testing
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Process Improvement
  • Stress Management
  • Time Management

• Benefits & perks

  • Travel Allowance
  • No-meeting Fridays
  • Meditation Room
  • Personal Days
  • Corporate gym and entertainment discounts
  • Dependent care FSA

• Apply before 2026-08-07

  Submit your application for this Internship technology position.