Backend Engineer

Overview

On Site
USD0 - USD0
Contract - W2

Skills

Backend
Engineer

Job Details

STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS HAS AN OPENING!

Job Title: Backend Engineer
Location McLean, VA ***On-Site
Duration:6+ Months
Role Type: W2 Contract Engagement

Overview:
Seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to support a Data Migration initiative within the DFS organization. This role requires deep expertise in backend engineering, large-scale data processing, and AWS-based data migration frameworks.

Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain backend services supporting DFS data migration.
Design and optimize data processing workflows leveraging Java, Spark, and AWS services.
Build and enhance data movement pipelines across systems and datasets.
Integrate with AWS Glue, RDS, S3, and related services to support migration and transformation.
Troubleshoot performance, reliability, and data integrity issues.
Collaborate with data engineers, architects, and platform teams to ensure migration success.
Support productionization, QA validation, and release readiness of migration components.

Required Skills:
Expert-level Java development experience.
Strong proficiency with AWS services: Glue, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM.
Hands-on Spark experience for large-scale data processing.
Experience in enterprise data migration, ETL, or data integration projects.
Strong understanding of distributed systems and backend engineering principles.
Ability to work in fast-paced cloud-native environments.

Preferred Skills:
Prior DFS, credit, or financial services data domain experience.
Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins, CodePipeline), Terraform, or containerization.
Strong debugging, tracing, and performance optimization abilities.

Soft Skills:
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Ability to work with minimal supervision and take ownership of deliverables.
Detail-oriented with a focus on reliability and data quality.

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