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Senior Backend Engineer with AWS and Kafka

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Company

Bilinguallink

Location

mississauga, Canada

Posted

June 05, 2026

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About This Opportunity

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