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Senior Backend Engineer Java AWS
Job Location:
Job Location:
Washington, AR - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
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Posted:
5 November 2026 (8 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
2 February 2027
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Key Responsibilities
Cloud-Native & Integration Architecture: Design build deploy and maintain scalable microservices RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures utilizing Java 17 Spring Boot Python and AWS integration services.
Resiliency & Disaster Recovery: Architect fault-tolerant high-availability solutions across multiple AWS Availability Zones and Regions conducting failover testing and actively reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
Production Operations & Root Cause Analysis: Investigate complex production incidents perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement robust observability frameworks using Amazon CloudWatch.
DevOps & Pipeline Automation: Build maintain and optimize continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines leveraging GitHub Actions Jenkins AWS CodePipeline and CloudFormation infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
Data Modeling & Optimization: Implement relational data models craft complex queries and tune database performance on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
Mentorship & Quality Standards: Drive peer code reviews champion automated testing standards (JUnit Mockito) and provide technical mentorship to junior developers.
Required Qualifications
Experience: 7 years of professional backend software engineering experience building and supporting distributed high-availability production systems.
Core Languages: Advanced hands-on proficiency in Java (Java 17) Spring Boot and Python.
AWS Cloud Engineering: Extensive hands-on experience across core AWS integration and compute services including ECS/Fargate EventBridge SQS SNS Lambda S3 and CloudWatch.
Database & Performance: Strong relational database background with PostgreSQL / Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL including schema design query optimization and tuning.
CI/CD & IaC: Practical experience managing automated deployments using Jenkins GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline and CloudFormation.
Testing: Demonstrated proficiency with automated unit and integration testing frameworks (JUnit Mockito).
Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
Preferred Qualifications
AWS Certification: Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect Developer Associate or Cloud Practitioner certification (highly preferred).
Domain & Integration Experience: Hands-on experience with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) B2B messaging integrations or high-volume transportation/railroad/logistics systems.
Location & Travel Accessibility: Based within or easily accessible to the Northeast Corridor (e.g. Philadelphia PA Wilmington DE or Washington DC) via passenger rail to accommodate quarterly on-site PI Planning sessions.
Cloud-Native & Integration Architecture: Design build deploy and maintain scalable microservices RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures utilizing Java 17 Spring Boot Python and AWS integration services.
Resiliency & Disaster Recovery: Architect fault-tolerant high-availability solutions across multiple AWS Availability Zones and Regions conducting failover testing and actively reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
Production Operations & Root Cause Analysis: Investigate complex production incidents perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement robust observability frameworks using Amazon CloudWatch.
DevOps & Pipeline Automation: Build maintain and optimize continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines leveraging GitHub Actions Jenkins AWS CodePipeline and CloudFormation infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
Data Modeling & Optimization: Implement relational data models craft complex queries and tune database performance on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
Mentorship & Quality Standards: Drive peer code reviews champion automated testing standards (JUnit Mockito) and provide technical mentorship to junior developers.
Required Qualifications
Experience: 7 years of professional backend software engineering experience building and supporting distributed high-availability production systems.
Core Languages: Advanced hands-on proficiency in Java (Java 17) Spring Boot and Python.
AWS Cloud Engineering: Extensive hands-on experience across core AWS integration and compute services including ECS/Fargate EventBridge SQS SNS Lambda S3 and CloudWatch.
Database & Performance: Strong relational database background with PostgreSQL / Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL including schema design query optimization and tuning.
CI/CD & IaC: Practical experience managing automated deployments using Jenkins GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline and CloudFormation.
Testing: Demonstrated proficiency with automated unit and integration testing frameworks (JUnit Mockito).
Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
Preferred Qualifications
AWS Certification: Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect Developer Associate or Cloud Practitioner certification (highly preferred).
Domain & Integration Experience: Hands-on experience with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) B2B messaging integrations or high-volume transportation/railroad/logistics systems.
Location & Travel Accessibility: Based within or easily accessible to the Northeast Corridor (e.g. Philadelphia PA Wilmington DE or Washington DC) via passenger rail to accommodate quarterly on-site PI Planning sessions.
Required Skills:
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATIONMOCKITOJAVARESTFUL APISCI/CDDATA MODELINGFAILOVER TESTINGDEVOPSPYTHONSPRING BOOTAWSPOSTGRESQLJUNIT
