AWS Backend Engineer

We have partnered with our client in their search for an AWS Backend Engineer.

Responsibilities

• As a Backend Engineer on AWS, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of a mostly serverless implementation of a mobile platform, including scalable Lambda-based APIs, real-time streaming (IoT, WebSockets, Kinesis), databases (Elasticache, RDS, Dynamo), WAF, VPC, IAM Auth, User security and Authentication (Cognito, passed token), logging and monitoring as well as auto-scale, availability and redundancy.


• This role takes what Product, UX and UI have designed and makes the supporting platform a well-architected reality.


• You will work closely with the UI team to integrate the solutions

Skills Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar field.


• Proven 10 years of work experience as a backend developer with a concentration on AWS


• Proficient in Java and Python


• Experience with the IDE of your choosing (VS Code, IntelliJ, etc.)


• Experience with developing unit test and complete test coverage (jUnit, PyUnit, Pytest, Lettuce, Behave)


• Experience in real-time applications


• Experience with gaming


• Experience with git/bitbucket and CICD workflows


• Experience with AWS and AWS Services
  
  
  
  • API Gateway (HTTP and Websocket)
  
  
  • VPC
  
  
  • WAF
  
  
  • IAM
  
  
  • Lambda
  
  
  • Kinesis
  
  
  • AWS Cognito and other auth mechanisms
  
  
  • DynamoDB, RDS, Elasticache
  
  
  • IAM
  
  
  • CloudWatch, CloudTrail
  
  
  • IoT
  
  
  
  


• Experience with core technologies
  
  
  
  • Terraform
  
  
  • Cloudfornation
  
  
  • Kubernetes
  
  
  • Airflow
  
  
  • GraphQL
  
  
  • SQL
  
  
  • Datadog
  
  
  
  


• Experience implementing fault-tolerant and highly available systems


• Understanding of OOP design principles and reusable code


• Linux proficiency


• Ability to contribute to design, test, release and application support

Title

• AWS Backend Engineer

Location

• Holmdel, NJ

Client Industry

• Software

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