Backend Engineer APIs AWS Data Platform

Position: Backend Engineer – High-Performance APIs AWS Data Platform

Posted 2 Days ago

Job Location Abu Dhabi (Work From Office)

Job Type Contract

Job Description Years of Experience
* Required Skills *

Primary technical and functional skills

Strong hands-on backend engineering experience using one or more of:

• Java
• Go
• Node.js
• Python

Proven experience designing and delivering low-latency, high-throughput APIs .

Demonstrable experience building services capable of handling high levels of concurrent traffic .

Deep hands-on expertise with Amazon DynamoDB , including:

• Data modelling based on access patterns
• Partition and sort-key design
• Global and local secondary indexes
• Query optimisation
• Capacity and performance optimisation
• Detection and prevention of hot partitions

Strong experience designing and developing:

• REST APIs
• gRPC services
• OpenAPI / Swagger specifications

Strong understanding of:

• Distributed systems
• Concurrency
• Asynchronous and non-blocking processing
• Fault tolerance
• Resilience patterns

Experience with:

• AWS API Gateway
• Kong API Gateway
• Docker
• Amazon EKS

Experience implementing authentication and authorisation using standards such as:

• OAuth 2.0
• OpenID Connect
• JWT

Strong understanding of API security, validation, rate limiting, throttling and protection against common API vulnerabilities.

Experience implementing caching and data-access optimisation strategies.

Strong experience with automated testing across the engineering lifecycle.

Hands-on experience with performance and load-testing tools such as:

• k6
• Gatling
• JMeter
• Locust

Experience with logging, monitoring and distributed-tracing technologies, including:

• Amazon Cloud Watch
• Grafana
• Open Telemetry

Experience working with CI/CD and source-control technologies such as:

• Git Hub
• Git Hub Actions
• Jenkins

Strong troubleshooting and production-support capability.

Required Experience / Knowledge Areas *

Specific domain or industry knowledge required

Significant professional experience in backend engineering, API development and distributed systems .

Demonstrable experience delivering production-grade services with demanding performance, concurrency and availability requirements.

Experience designing and optimising applications that use Amazon DynamoDB as a primary data store.

Experience deploying and operating containerised services in Kubernetes environments.

Experience working with AWS-based enterprise platforms.

Experience delivering APIs within secure, regulated or highly controlled environments.

Experience in Banking, Financial Services or Fintech strongly preferred.

Understanding of security, privacy and regulatory considerations when exposing enterprise and customer data through APIs.

Experience working across the full software delivery lifecycle, from technical design through development, testing, deployment and production support.

Skills

Java API Security Amazon DynamoDB

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