Remote Backend Engineer: AWS Serverless & Data-Driven

Insight Global; Town of Brookfield (WI); Remote; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for regulated industries, including insurance and healthcare. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and security in cloud-native environments.

You will work with AWS serverless stacks (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS), .NET Core/C#, data modeling, and event-driven microservices, plus Terraform, CI/CD, and automated testing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and building backend systems on AWS.
• Strong proficiency with AWS services including Lambda, SQS/SNS, API Gateway.
• Deep experience designing and supporting event-driven, distributed microservice architectures.
• Advanced experience with .NET Core and C# for backend service development.
• Experience implementing automated testing (unit, integration, and service-level tests).
• Hands-on Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Healthcare or insurance data experience.
• Frontend experience with React and Next.js.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using AWS serverless and managed services.
• Build and support event-driven microservices, ensuring loose coupling, resiliency, and scalability.
• Own backend data flows, including data modeling, validation, persistence, and system-to-system integrations.
• Implement secure, performant APIs and asynchronous messaging patterns to support high-throughput workloads.
• Develop and maintain automated tests to ensure reliability, correctness, and long-term maintainability.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize backend systems in production environments.
• Develop and execute automated tests to ensure software quality and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve our solutions.

Skills

Backend design

Microservices architecture

C#/.NET Core

AWS cloud services

Automated testing

Data modeling

CI/CD practices

Problem solving

Healthcare/insurance domain

SDLC / Agile

Tools

Terraform

AWS Lambda

SQS/SNS

API Gateway

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for regulated industries, including insurance and healthcare. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and security in cloud-native environments.

You will work with AWS serverless stacks (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS), .NET Core/C#, data modeling, and event-driven microservices, plus Terraform, CI/CD, and automated testing.