Senior Backend Engineer - Event Systems & Data Platform

Insight Global; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer, Event Systems to support a mission-application modernization program that unifies access across a portfolio of production applications: one sign-on, one work surface, and a repeatable pattern for onboarding applications to a shared platform.

You will implement feeds from existing applications using CDC, API polling, and gateway queries; design and build the work-item projection in PostgreSQL with state only, schema-enforced, hash-chained

Qualifications

• 7+ years in backend and data engineering with production CDC and Kafka-compatible brokers.
• Strong PostgreSQL; event-driven integration with legacy systems.
• Experience with Java, Go, or TypeScript; Kubernetes; AWS MSK.

Responsibilities

• Implement feeds from existing applications using change data capture (Debezium), API polling, and gateway queries.
• Normalize to CloudEvents and design the work-item projection in PostgreSQL with state, hash-chained history and exactly-once recovery.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data engineering

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Java

Go

TypeScript

Kubernetes

AWS MSK

Debezium

Tools

Debezium

CloudEvents

Kafka-compatible brokers

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer, Event Systems to support a mission-application modernization program that unifies access across a portfolio of production applications: one sign-on, one work surface, and a repeatable pattern for onboarding applications to a shared platform.

You will implement feeds from existing applications using CDC, API polling, and gateway queries; design and build the work-item projection in PostgreSQL with state only, schema-enforced, hash-chained