Senior Backend Engineer with AWS and Kafka

Bilinguallink
📍 mississauga, peel region, Canada 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 05, 2026

Job Description

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

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Job Details

  • Location mississauga, peel region
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category Other-General
  • Posted Date June 05, 2026
  • Application Deadline July 15, 2026