About the role
Contract to hire position for a major financial firm
Hybrid in Newark, NJ 3 days/week
Must Haves:
-Strong hands-on experience with React.js (hooks, state management, component-based architecture) for building responsive, scalable UIs.
-Solid backend development experience using Node.js (Express/NestJS) and RESTful API design.
-Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript across full stack (frontend + backend) .
-Experience designing and integrating REST/GraphQL APIs and microservices architectures.
-Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (e.g., EC2, S3, API Gateway, Lambda) .
-Working knowledge of containerization using Docker and deployment to AWS ECS (or EKS)
-Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments in AWS environments
-Understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts (VPC, IAM, load balancing, auto scaling)
-Proficiency with databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or NoSQL) and query optimization
-Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch)
payrate 55 - 62/hr depending on experience