Backend Lead – Python & AWS

United States | Nov. 6, 2026

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Company: Ness Digital Engineering

Country: United States

Type: Onsite

Employment: Full Time

Description:

Attention: This position requires hybrid work (2-3 days per week onsite) in Evansville, Indiana, USA. Unfortunately, remote work is not an option for this role.

Please apply only if you:

• Currently live in or near Evansville, IN, or
• Are willing and able to relocate to Evansville, IN, and
• Can commit to the required hybrid work schedule.

Candidates who are unable to work onsite in Evansville will not be considered for this opportunity. Thank you for your understanding.

Experience: 10–14 years of overall IT experience, including 3+ years in technical leadership 

Industry: Financial Services 

Position Overview 

Ness is seeking an experienced Backend Lead with strong hands-on expertise in Python development and AWS cloud services to lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable, secure, and high-performance backend applications. 

The ideal candidate will combine deep Python programming skills, cloud-native application development experience, API and microservices architecture expertise, and proven technical leadership. The role involves working closely with solution architects, product managers, DevOps engineers, data teams, and other engineering stakeholders to deliver reliable enterprise solutions in a secure financial services environment. 

Key Responsibilities 

1. Backend Development & Python Engineering 

• Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of backend services and applications using Python. 

• Develop scalable RESTful APIs and microservices using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django. 

• Establish coding standards, design patterns, reusable components, and engineering best practices. 

• Review code, provide technical guidance, and ensure code quality, maintainability, performance, and test coverage. 

• Optimize application performance, concurrency, database access, and resource utilization. 

• Implement robust error handling, logging, validation, and exception management. 

2. AWS Cloud Architecture & Development 

• Design and develop cloud-native backend applications leveraging AWS services. 

• Build and deploy applications using services such as: 

• AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS/EKS 

• Amazon API Gateway 

• Amazon S3 

• Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS 

• Amazon RDS and DynamoDB 

• AWS Step Functions and EventBridge 

• AWS CloudWatch, IAM, and Secrets Manager 

• Implement event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, and distributed application patterns. 

• Design for scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. 

• Collaborate with cloud and infrastructure teams to implement secure and reliable deployment architectures. 

• Experience with MuleSoft and Apollo GraphQL is a Plus 

3. API & Microservices Architecture 

• Define backend service boundaries, API contracts, integration patterns, and service communication strategie

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