AWS Backend Engineer

Job Title: AWS Backend Engineer

Location: Charlotte NC (Hybrid)

Job Type: Contract

Responsibilities:

• Design develop and implement AI/ML solutions leveraging Agentic AI architectures A2A (Agent-to-Agent) frameworks and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations.
• AWS platform and services knowledge including AWS Lambda API Gateway and EMR/Hudi/Glue/Kafka/Flink with Java Spring Boot CI/CD using Terraform/Concourse/Jenkins
• AWS AKAMAI ETL data processing
• Python/Pyspark Bedrock Agentcore Terraform
• Spark MongoDB/ DynamoDB/Aurora
• Associate or Architect. Ability to understand the future Architecture and guide the team with require technical direction
• 7 years of experience in cloud development (preferably 8-12 yrs but may not have all been in AWS)
• Should know ETL to streaming process: Should understand Informatica and be able to convert that to Kafka and AWS data flow
• Develop MVP User Stories (Re-usable components/ APIs / UI / Mock stubs etc.)
• Support backlog creation prioritization and Story mapping
• Support in technical design and solutioning
• Ability to work across tiers UI development APIs databases (basic developer level tasks)
• Ability to utilize DevOps CI/CD pipeline create/configure build and deploy jobs
• Experience working in XP and pair programming model and understands and performs TDD

Skills:

• Responsible for assigned task delivery and quality and knowledge transfer through daily pairing with Client team members
• Motivated and energetic engineers who are passionate about software modernization
• Must be able to clearly communicate with team members and leadership
• Participate in paired programming and XP development
• Strong ability to work independently when required
• Turn complex ideas into manageable pieces of work
• Hands-on Individual contribution and Mentor other developers in team
• Support team members on troubleshooting