Senior Backend Engineer - Java/AWS (Multi-Region, On-Site DC)

ZipStaff Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 124,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) + 401(k) matching

Paid time off

Referral Program

Job summary

ZipStaff is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for our client to design, build, and operate cloud-native, multi-region AWS-based microservices and data pipelines using Java 17+, Spring Boot, Python, and AWS services.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, observability and performance tuning in PostgreSQL/Aurora, and mentor junior developers while driving fault-tolerant solutions across AZs. This on-site role is in Washington, DC.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience on distributed, high-availability production systems.
• Experience with Java 17+, Spring Boot and Python.
• Proficiency with automated unit and integration testing (JUnit, Mockito).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy and maintain scalable microservices and RESTful APIs using Java 17+ and Spring Boot.
• Architect fault-tolerant, high-availability solutions across AWS regions with failover testing.
• Investigate production incidents and perform root cause analysis with CloudWatch observability.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodePipeline and CloudFormation.
• Work with relational data models, write complex queries and tune PostgreSQL/Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Drive peer code reviews and mentor junior developers.

Job description

ZipStaff is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for our client to design, build, and operate cloud-native, multi-region AWS-based microservices and data pipelines using Java 17+, Spring Boot, Python, and AWS services.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, observability and performance tuning in PostgreSQL/Aurora, and mentor junior developers while driving fault-tolerant solutions across AZs. This on-site role is in Washington, DC.