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Java AWS Engineer

Date Posted: Jun 18, 2026

Job #1688387
Contract
Westerville, Ohio, USA

We have partnered with our client in their search for a Java AWS Engineer for a contract to hire opportunity in Columbus, OH.
Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve target-state architecture for debit and payments services using modern distributed-systems patterns
  • Lead domain-level technical ownership across multiple services, ensuring high availability, low latency, and operational excellence
  • Drive modernization initiatives, including platform upgrades and decomposition efforts, with clear risk management and rollback plans
  • Establish and enforce API governance, schema/versioning practices, and engineering standards through design reviews and reference implementations
  • Improve reliability through service level indicators/service level objectives, runbooks, post-incident learning, and capacity planning
  • Build and mature observability practices, including distributed tracing and metrics that cover synchronous and asynchronous workflows
  • Partner with security, risk, and compliance stakeholders to ensure secure engineering practices and audit-ready controls
  • Standardize event streaming and messaging practices, including idempotency, retry strategies, and dead-letter queue handling
  • Mentor and coach senior and lead engineers, strengthening engineering practices across squads
  • Communicate technical strategy, tradeoffs, and delivery plans to senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners


Skills Required

  • Java
  • AWS
  • Kafka
  • Experience using AI for development
  • Experience supporting debit, payments, or other high-volume transaction platforms in regulated environment is a plus

Education & Work Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 5+ years of experience

Title Java AWS Engineer
Location Columbus, OH
Client Industry FinTech
Compensation $55-75/hr

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