Senior Data & AI Engineer — AWS, Java & Python

Hidden Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Hidden Jobs is seeking an hands-on engineer to build and operate an AWS-based data platform and AI-enabled guest engagement product for multi-unit brands. You will blend Java backend development with Python and applied AI, covering ingestion pipelines, modeling, and production operations that support personalized engagement, churn prediction, and natural-language analytics.

You will design scalable data and AI solutions, develop API/services with Java/Spring, and modernize the lake architecture

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production software or data engineering experience with strong Java, Spring Boot, and AWS backgrounds.
• Solid skills in Java, SQL, and Python, plus experience working with large-scale relational and document data stores.
• Hands-on experience building AI or ML applications with technologies such as Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker, including generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and model evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to design reliable data pipelines covering incremental processing, schema evolution, reconciliation, and failure recovery.
• Strong grasp of AWS infrastructure, messaging, security, monitoring, and containerized application patterns.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and production observability, supported by sound engineering judgment and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship scalable AWS data, backend, and AI solutions with attention to reliability, security, performance, and cost.
• Develop Java and Spring Boot services, APIs, and data models, integrating with MySQL, MongoDB, and external partner platforms.
• Build and maintain dependable ingestion and processing pipelines across transaction, ordering, loyalty, payment, and guest data sources.
• Modernize the data platform using S3, EMR, Spark, Glue, and Athena, evolving the existing lake architecture.
• Produce trusted, reusable datasets and models that power analytics, customer intelligence, and machine learning use cases.
• Build generative AI and retrieval-augmented applications using Amazon Bedrock, OpenSearch, and related tooling, while supporting predictive ML work in segmentation, recommendations, and churn.
• Establish testing, monitoring, and evaluation standards for pipelines, AI quality, and application performance.
• Uphold strong security, privacy, tenant isolation, and governance practices across customer and guest data.
• Maintain engineering quality through CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, code review, and clear documentation.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

SQL

Python

AI/ML

Data pipelines

CI/CD

IaC

Security & governance

Tools

Amazon Bedrock

SageMaker

OpenSearch

Spark

Glue

EMR

Athena

MySQL

MongoDB

Job description

Hidden Jobs is seeking an hands-on engineer to build and operate an AWS-based data platform and AI-enabled guest engagement product for multi-unit brands. You will blend Java backend development with Python and applied AI, covering ingestion pipelines, modeling, and production operations that support personalized engagement, churn prediction, and natural-language analytics.

You will design scalable data and AI solutions, develop API/services with Java/Spring, and modernize the lake architecture