Contract software engineer building Python and AWS cloud - native solutions for an insurance technology team. Improving CI/CD, infrastructure automation, distributed systems, and production reliability.
About the role
- Senior Server Engineer building scalable Java backend services for Rush Street Interactive’s online casino and sports betting platforms. Designing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and resilient integrations.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java and related frameworks
- Develop high-performance microservices, RESTful APIs, and service-to-service integrations for a highly available distributed platform
- Design and implement event-driven architectures using Kafka and asynchronous messaging
- Build resilient integrations with internal and third-party systems, including retry handling, idempotency, monitoring, and operational support
- Define and evolve event contracts, payload schemas, API standards, versioning strategies, and integration patterns
- Drive platform modernization by reducing technical debt, simplifying legacy systems, and consolidating services
- Ensure services are secure, observable, maintainable, and production-ready through automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and performance optimization
- Lead production incident investigations, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term improvements
- Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, pair programming, mentoring, hiring, onboarding, and engineering best practices
- Collaborate closely with Product, Analytics, Data Engineering, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with strong backend engineering expertise
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience
- Advanced experience with Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Dropwizard
- Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, and backend integration patterns
- Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture and messaging platforms such as Kafka
- Experience with relational databases, including PostgreSQL and Oracle; Redis familiarity is a plus
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, DevOps practices, and AWS
- Understanding of observability, including logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and production diagnostics
- Experience leading technical discussions, making architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers in Agile environments
- Excellent communication skills for explaining technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to travel occasionally, domestically and internationally
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, prescription drugs, vision, and paramedical services)
- Competitive dental plan with strong coverage for basic, major, and orthodontic services
- Annual Health Care Spending Account (HCSA) to support your personalized wellness needs
- 24/7 virtual healthcare access for you and your eligible dependents
- Life, disability, and AD&D insurance
- Wellness-focused perks including mental health support and rewards programs
- RRSP and company DPSP contribution, up to 100% of the first 4%
- Parental leave top up policy
- Paid vacation and sick time
- Comprehensive compensation
- Work-life balance initiatives
- Autonomy – personal freedom and responsibility
- Creativity and openness to new ideas
- Personal and professional growth opportunities
- Supportive, people-oriented atmosphere
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