Senior Engineer - Contractor

Title: Senior Engineer - Contractor 
Duration: Through 1/15/27, potential extension
Location: Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with strong programming and cloud platform expertise.
• Seeking an experienced Data Engineer or Application Engineer with hands on AI & LLMs to build and support enterprise-grade production systems.
• Write efficient, maintainable code in Python, leveraging frameworks like PySpark for large-scale data processing.
• Investigate and troubleshoot data pipelines, demonstrating a strong understanding of data structures and distributed processing.
• Develop and optimize complex SQL queries; implement data warehousing concepts including Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD Type 1 & Type 2).
• Design, develop, and deploy scalable, reliable APIs on AWS (ECS).
• Work extensively with core AWS services, including ECS, Lambda, SNS, and DynamoDB.
• Build, test, and deploy applications via CI/CD pipelines to ensure automated delivery.
• Utilize AI-powered developer tools (such as GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery and code quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure and application performance issues.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• AWS Services: Hands-on experience with AWS ECS, Lambda, SNS, and DynamoDB.
• Programming & Data: Proficient in Python with strong PySpark experience for data pipeline investigation and processing.
• Databases & Modeling: Solid understanding of SQL, data modeling concepts, and SCD (Type 1 & Type 2).
• API & Cloud Deployment: Proven experience building and deploying APIs on AWS / ECS.
• DevOps: Working knowledge of CI/CD processes and pipelines.
• AI Tooling: Experience using AI-assisted coding tools (GitHub Copilot, etc.).
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Data Engineering, Pyspark, Databricks, LLM, Python, Gen AI
• The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience across core AWS services, a solid background in Python, PySpark, SQL, and data modeling, along with proficiency in leveraging AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to enhance engineering productivity.

Rate: $50 - 70