Backend Engineer – Java/Python, AWS & Terraform
Location: Jersey City, NJ Onsite.- Locals Prefered
Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, or GC EAD preferred
W2 Requirement- No C2C, 1099, or third-party profiles accepted.
Position Overview
We are seeking a Backend Engineer to design, develop, test, deploy, and support production-grade software applications using Java and/or Python in AWS cloud environments. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience building APIs and backend services, managing cloud infrastructure using Terraform, and working with relational or NoSQL databases.
The engineer will contribute to system design, secure coding, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and production incident resolution while collaborating with product, QA, SRE/operations, and security teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain production-grade backend applications using Java and/or Python.
- Build and maintain APIs, microservices, and cloud-based backend solutions on AWS.
- Write secure, maintainable, high-quality code and participate in peer code reviews.
- Troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes.
- Contribute to system design, service architecture, performance optimization, and reliability improvements.
- Use Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools to provision and manage cloud resources and environments.
- Develop and maintain automated tests and contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements.
- Work with relational and/or NoSQL databases, including data modeling and query optimization.
- Apply secure coding practices, logging, monitoring, error handling, and resilience patterns.
- Use approved AI-assisted engineering tools when appropriate, validating generated code and recommendations for security, correctness, and performance.
- Document technical decisions and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.
Required Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in Java and/or Python, including object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience developing, testing, deploying, and supporting production applications.
- Practical AWS cloud experience deploying or operating backend services.
- Experience designing, developing, and consuming APIs.
- Familiarity with microservices and/or event-driven architectures.
- Experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, including backend data modeling.
- Understanding of secure coding, production troubleshooting, performance, logging, and monitoring.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively on technical design and delivery.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS/SNS, Kinesis, MQ, or other messaging/eventing platforms.
- Experience with Docker, containers, and CI/CD tools.
- Knowledge of unit testing, integration testing, and test-driven development.
- Familiarity with REST, gRPC, metrics, distributed tracing, and observability.
- Experience working in enterprise or financial-services engineering environments.