Senior Backend Engineer with AWS and Kafka

Elevate your career as a Senior Cloud-Native Backend Engineer in Toronto with a leading financial institution. Focus on building high-performance payment systems using Java, AWS, and Kafka in a hybrid work model.

This six-month contract role emphasizes advanced backend engineering skills, specifically in building distributed microservices and managing AWS infrastructure. You’ll design and implement non-blocking architectures using modern Java (17+) and leverage event-driven methodologies with Apache Kafka and reactive programming techniques.

Key Responsibilities: • Design scalable distributed microservices using Java and Spring Boot • Utilize Apache Kafka for fault-tolerant event streaming • Implement reactive programming practices with Spring WebFlux or RxJava • Manage AWS environments using Infrastructure as Code tools • Own backend architecture and cloud infrastructure provisioning

Requirements: • Over 7 years of backend engineering experience with Java • ...