Backend Engineer

Hello There

My name is Himanshu and I serve as the Recruitment Manager at Nexiva INC. I am reaching out to share an excellent career opportunity for the role of Backend Engineer with our esteemed client. If you are interested then please share your updated resume at

Job Description

Position : Backend Engineer (Big Data & AWS)

Location : Rockville MD or McLean VA or New York NY or Jersey City NJ (Hybrid)

Duration : 6 months contract

Overview
We are seeking a Backend Engineer who brings strong ownership technical depth and a passion for building scalable data-driven systems. This individual will play a key role in designing and delivering backend services that power high-performance applications and analytics platforms.

This role requires someone who can operate across distributed systems contribute to architectural decisions and collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to deliver impactful solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs supporting data-intensive applications
• Build and optimize distributed systems leveraging big data technologies such as Spark Hive and Presto
• Develop high-performance APIs that enable interactive access to large-scale datasets
• Partner with product data and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Contribute to system design architecture discussions and engineering best practices
• Ensure reliability scalability and performance of services deployed in AWS environments
• Participate in Agile development processes including sprint planning code reviews and continuous improvement
• Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices for efficient and repeatable deployments
• Stay current with emerging technologies and contribute to innovation across the engineering organization

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field
• 5 years of software engineering experience with a focus on backend development
• Strong programming experience in one or more of the following: Java Python or TypeScript
• 3 years of experience working with big data technologies (e.g. Spark Hadoop ecosystem Presto/Trino)
• 3 years of experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Strong SQL skills with experience working across large complex datasets
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3 EMR Lambda ECS or similar
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices (e.g. Jenkins GitLab CI/CD or similar)
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. CloudFormation Terraform)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building data platforms or data-driven applications at scale
• Exposure to streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes/EKS)
• Familiarity with data lake architectures and query engines (e.g. Athena Trino)
• Experience supporting production systems including monitoring and performance tuning

What Sets You Apart

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity
• Ownership mindset with a focus on delivering high-quality outcomes
• Ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Passion for continuous learning and improving engineering practices