Job Description:
Location: This position is remote in the US only.
Key Responsibilities
· Implement scalable solutions across the full stack with a focus on backend services and data architecture
· Development and optimization of Postgres database schemas, queries, and performance tuning
· Build and maintain Python-based services, APIs, and backend processing logic
· Develop and support AWS-based solutions, including Step Functions and event-driven workflows
· Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS CloudFormation and related tooling
· Collaborate with product, architecture, and engineering teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
· Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across application, infrastructure, and data layers
· Ensure code quality through best practices including testing, code reviews, and documentation
· Contribute to system design decisions, architecture reviews, and technical roadmaps
Required Skills & Experience
· Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL (schema design, performance tuning, complex queries)
· Proficiency in Python for backend development and data processing
· Experience with AWS services, particularly Step Functions, Lambda, and event-driven architectures
· Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, specifically CloudFormation (or similar tools like Terraform)
· Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
· Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and microservices architecture
· Ability to work independently and drive solutions with minimal oversight
Pay Range: $65.00 – $70.00 per hour, depending upon experience.
Health & Medical Benefits, 401K, Employee Assistance Program, and Sick Time applicable by state.
Whether you are a candidate looking for a new opportunity or an organization looking for talent, when you work with WideNet Consulting, you can be confident that you will receive an unequaled experience. As a leading technology consulting and recruitment firm, WideNet has built an outstanding reputation of consistently bringing together professionals, who are the best in their field, with exceptional opportunities at the finest, most dynamic companies.
Our strengths:We understand the challenges of business and organization management. Our team has helped departments and companies identify specific challenges and solutions, then built road maps to a smoother business model.
We know technology project management and assist on projects at ANY point in the process.
We build our dream team of Clients & Candidates carefully and purposefully, and then interact with them intensely and often. The journey ends with the perfect fusion of our Client's business objectives and our Candidate's expertise working together in perfect harmony.
We use our proprietary recruiting strategy and process, WideScreen™ to match Candidate expertise to Client needs and culture, consistently exceeding expectations. We work to deliver the right person for the need AND the company.
We conduct business with honesty, integrity, and dedication. We do what we say we're going to do. We follow-up and follow through until the best candidate is matched to the right opportunity.
We are not a volume shop. We are completely focused on creating the best possible fit between our Client's business objectives and our Candidate's expertise, every time.
We help our Clients match their technology solutions with current staff configurations, then provide the tools, experience and resources to develop targeted Information Technology initiatives that improve productivity and enhance systems management.