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Position: Backend Dev & Infrastructure DevOps Engineer Level: Senior / Mid-Senior Location: 100% Remote, Miami-based Compensation: Competitive Hourly Rate, 12+ month contract Reports to: Lead Full-Stack Cloud Architect Engagement: 1+ year contract, remote Job Number: 7382 Overview This role merges backend/serverless data engineering with cloud infrastructure — one person who owns the data layer and also owns containerization and load balancing. You implement the persistence and data-access layer the architect specs (potentially different databases per client, depending on the architect's decision), wire in authentication, and make the whole thing deployable, observable, and resilient against a 99.95% uptime target. If the platform runs on AWS, this role lives in Lambda day to day, using Amazon's own APIs for data access; on Azure, the equivalent serverless/data-access stack applies. What You'll Build • Serverless backend functions end-to-end (AWS Lambda, or Azure Functions if that's the chosen provider) — daily-driver work, not occasional serverless • Data access layer against per-client databases (Mongo and/or SQL, per architecture decision) using the cloud provider's native APIs • Authentication/authorization implementation • Silo enforcement — no client's data path touches another's • Containerization strategy (Docker/ECS/EKS or Azure equivalent) • Load balancing — configured per client where required • CI/CD, observability, and failover engineered to hit 99.95% uptime, with a costed path to 99.99% if the business wants it later Must Have • 6+ years backend/infrastructure, including 2+ years building on AWS Lambda or Azure Functions in production at volume, and hands-on container orchestration in production • Comfortable in Java, Python, or Go (explicitly not Node.js) • Experience with both document (MongoDB/DynamoDB) and relational (SQL) persistence • AWS or Azure load-balancing and multi-tenant deployment experience • Financial-services or other high-compliance backend/infra experience • Has actually owned an uptime SLA in the 99.9–99.99% range and can explain the architecture tradeoffs at each tier, not just repeat “high availability” back to you Not for you? Sherlock loves to share referral success bonuses. Add your name in the referral field of the application form.

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Position: Backend Dev & Infrastructure DevOps Engineer
Level: Senior / Mid-Senior
Location: 100% Remote, Miami-based
Compensation: Competitive Hourly Rate, 12+ month contract
Reports to: Lead Full-Stack Cloud Architect
Engagement: 1+ year contract, remote
Job Number: 7382
What You'll Build
Serverless backend functions end-to-end (AWS Lambda, or Azure Functions if that's the chosen provider) — daily-driver work, not occasional serverless
Data access layer against per-client databases (Mongo and/or SQL, per architecture decision) using the cloud provider's native APIs
Authentication/authorization implementation
Silo enforcement — no client's data path touches another's
Containerization strategy (Docker/ECS/EKS or Azure equivalent)
Load balancing — configured per client where required
CI/CD, observability, and failover engineered to hit 99.95% uptime, with a costed path to 99.99% if the business wants it later
6+ years backend/infrastructure, including 2+ years building on AWS Lambda or Azure Functions in production at volume, and hands-on container orchestration in production
Comfortable in Java, Python, or Go (explicitly not Node.js)
Experience with both document (MongoDB/DynamoDB) and relational (SQL) persistence
AWS or Azure load-balancing and multi-tenant deployment experience
Financial-services or other high-compliance backend/infra experience
Has actually owned an uptime SLA in the 99.9–99.99% range and can explain the architecture tradeoffs at each tier, not just repeat “high availability” back to you
Not for you? Sherlock loves to share referral success bonuses. Add your name in the referral field of the application form.

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