W2 ONLY - REMOTE- EST- AWS Backend Engineer

Job Description: Hybrid at Charlotte, NC or Remote working EST hours Candidate must be willing to attend in-person interviews with client either in nearest office or client location. Job title: AWS Backend Engineer Client: Duke Energy # of Positions: 1 Tenure: Until 1/3/2027 Interview Process: Internal & Client (Onsite Interviews Mandatory) Job Summary: 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/ API's / 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 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 Required Skills: Key technology skill set 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 Primary skills: AWS, Python/Pyspark, AKAMAI, ETL data processing Secondary skills: Bedrock, Agentcore, Terraform Additional technology skill set Spark, MongoDB/DynamoDB/Aurora AWS Certification - Associate or Architect. Ability to understand the future Architecture and guide the team with require technical direction