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Senior Backend Engineer - Java / AWS

HyrUS Inc.
WASHINGTON, DC Contractor | Full Time | Part Time
POSTED ON 11/12/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/12/2026
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: Bachelor s 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.

Salary : $65

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