Senior Backend Developer/Remote-6+ months Contract
Title: Senior Backend Developer
Location: Fully Remote (East Coast Hours)
Duration: 6+ months
We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join an Agile team responsible for a mission-critical web platform. You'll work on stabilizing and enhancing existing systems while driving modernization using Java and AWS. This role suits a pragmatic, hands-on engineer who enjoys owning backend systems end-to-end and shaping technical direction in a regulated environment.
What You'll Do
Location: Fully Remote (East Coast Hours)
Duration: 6+ months
We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join an Agile team responsible for a mission-critical web platform. You'll work on stabilizing and enhancing existing systems while driving modernization using Java and AWS. This role suits a pragmatic, hands-on engineer who enjoys owning backend systems end-to-end and shaping technical direction in a regulated environment.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot
- Develop and evolve microservices and REST APIs
- Modernize legacy backend components while ensuring system stability
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries
- Integrate services with AWS (Lambda, S3, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge, etc.)
- Apply event-driven and cloud-native patterns to improve scalability and resilience
- Write unit and integration tests and participate in code reviews
- Support production systems, debugging issues and improving observability
- Collaborate closely with Product, Frontend, QA, and DevOps teams in an Agile environment
- Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot
- Solid understanding of backend architecture, microservices, and design patterns
- Hands-on experience with AWS services
- Strong SQL skills and experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience working with legacy systems and incremental modernization
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments
- Financial Services or Wealth Management experience is a plus
- Ownership mindset and strong problem-solving skills
- Languages & Frameworks: Java 23, Spring Boot 3.x
- Architecture: Microservices, REST APIs, event-driven systems
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Cloud: AWS
- DevOps: Git, Gradle, Docker, CI/CD
- Observability: New Relic, Elasticsearch
- Productivity: GitHub Copilot
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