Data & AI Engineer on AWS — Java & Python

Incentivio; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Incentivio is seeking a Data & AI Engineer to build and operate data platforms and AI-powered applications on AWS. You will combine strong Java backend engineering, practical Python skills, and experience with AWS data and AI services to deliver reliable analytics, intelligent automation, and personalized guest experiences.

Our environment includes Java/Spring Boot services, large MySQL and MongoDB stores, Hive data lake on Amazon EMR, and integrations with POS/payment systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production software or data engineering experience, with strong Java/Spring Boot and AWS experience.
• Strong Java, SQL, data modeling, and database optimization skills, including MySQL and MongoDB.
• Proficiency in Python for data processing, AI workflows, and automation.
• Hands-on AWS data engineering experience with S3 and distributed processing technologies such as EMR, Glue, or Spark.
• Experience building AI/ML applications using technologies such as Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker, including generative AI, RAG, embeddings, and model evaluation.
• Experience designing reliable data pipelines, including incremental processing, schema evolution, reconciliation, and failure recovery.
• Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure, messaging, security, monitoring, and containerized applications.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and production monitoring.
• Strong engineering judgment, communication, troubleshooting skills, and effective use of AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable AWS-based data, backend, and AI solutions with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and cost.
• Develop Java/Spring Boot services, APIs, data models, and integrations across MySQL, MongoDB, and third-party platforms.
• Build and maintain reliable data ingestion and processing pipelines for transaction, guest, ordering, loyalty, and payment data.
• Develop and modernize the AWS data platform using services including S3, EMR, Spark, Glue, and Athena.
• Create trusted, reusable datasets and data models for analytics, customer intelligence, and AI/ML applications.
• Build generative AI and RAG applications using Amazon Bedrock, OpenSearch, and related technologies.
• Support predictive ML use cases including churn, recommendations, and segmentation.
• Establish testing, monitoring, and evaluation for data pipelines, AI quality, application performance, and production reliability.
• Ensure strong security, privacy, tenant isolation, and governance of customer and guest data.
• Maintain engineering quality through CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, code reviews, and documentation.

Skills

Java/Spring Boot

SQL & Data modeling

Python for data processing

AWS data engineering

AI/ML applications

CI/CD & IaC

Monitoring & testing

Tools

Amazon Bedrock

SageMaker

EMR

Spark

Glue

Athena

OpenSearch

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Incentivio is seeking a Data & AI Engineer to build and operate data platforms and AI-powered applications on AWS. You will combine strong Java backend engineering, practical Python skills, and experience with AWS data and AI services to deliver reliable analytics, intelligent automation, and personalized guest experiences.

Our environment includes Java/Spring Boot services, large MySQL and MongoDB stores, Hive data lake on Amazon EMR, and integrations with POS/payment systems.