Backend Engineer: Java/Python, AWS & Terraform

SCI SOLUTIONS GLOBAL; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SCI Solutions Global in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, develop, and deploy production-grade applications using Java and Python in AWS environments. You will build APIs and backend services, manage cloud resources with Terraform, and work with relational or NoSQL databases.

You will contribute to system design, secure coding, automated testing, and CI/CD, partnering with product, QA, SRE, and security teams to ensure reliability and performance.

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.

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.
• Document technical decisions and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.

Skills

Java

Python

AWS

APIs

Microservices

Databases

Secure coding

CI/CD

Independent work

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

REST/GRPC

Kafka

Job description

SCI Solutions Global in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, develop, and deploy production-grade applications using Java and Python in AWS environments. You will build APIs and backend services, manage cloud resources with Terraform, and work with relational or NoSQL databases.

You will contribute to system design, secure coding, automated testing, and CI/CD, partnering with product, QA, SRE, and security teams to ensure reliability and performance.