Software development jobs in the United States

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Counted Nov 4, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 52,101
Employers: 9,828

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $140,723Across 11,071 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $57.05Across 2,298 listings
Average starting payUSD / month: $12,837Across 57 listings
Average starting payCAD / year: $135,070Across 45 listings
Average starting payUSD / week: $2,051Across 11 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 8%4,415 listings
Hybrid: 7%3,598 listings
On-site: 15%7,833 listings

Not specified: 70% (36,255 listings)

Employers hiring include Akamai Technologies, Inc. (775), Lockheed Martin (692), Salesforce.com (608).

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These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

Software development jobs in the United States

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Randstad USA

Senior Backend Engineer - Java / AWS

Washington, DC, United States

$60 to $65 USD / hour · Contract

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Pay: $60 to $65 USD / hour
Job type: Contract
Apply by: Dec 3, 2026
Experience: Experience: 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience building and supporting distributed, high-availability production systems.
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 3, 2026

Original job description

job summary:

Randstad Digital is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Java / AWS) to join a core engineering delivery team within a major national passenger transportation organization's Corporate & Operations Technologies division. In this role, you will design, build, and support cloud-native enterprise integrations and transaction-processing services that power critical operational systems. Working closely with Principal Systems Engineering leadership, you will take hands-on ownership of resilient, multi-region AWS architectures, event-driven pipelines, and automated CI/CD workflows, ensuring five-nines reliability, rapid disaster recovery, and seamless B2B data exchange.

location: Washington, Washington, D.C. job type: Contract salary: $60 - 65 per hour work hours: 9am to 5pm education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

Cloud-Native & Integration Architecture: Design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures utilizing Java 17+, Spring Boot, Python, and AWS integration services.

Resiliency & Disaster Recovery: Architect fault-tolerant, high-availability solutions across multiple AWS Availability Zones and Regions, conducting failover testing and actively reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).

Production Operations & Root Cause Analysis: Investigate complex production incidents, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement robust observability frameworks using Amazon CloudWatch.

DevOps & Pipeline Automation: Build, maintain, and optimize continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines leveraging GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, and CloudFormation infrastructure-as-code (IaC).

Data Modeling & Optimization: Implement relational data models, craft complex queries, and tune database performance on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

Mentorship & Quality Standards: Drive peer code reviews, champion automated testing standards (JUnit, Mockito), and provide technical mentorship to junior developers.

qualifications:

Experience: 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience building and supporting distributed, high-availability production systems.

Core Languages: Advanced, hands-on proficiency in Java (Java 17+), Spring Boot, and Python.

AWS Cloud Engineering: Extensive hands-on experience across core AWS integration and compute services, including ECS/Fargate, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Lambda, S3, and CloudWatch.

Database & Performance: Strong relational database background with PostgreSQL / Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and tuning.

CI/CD & IaC: Practical experience managing automated deployments using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, and CloudFormation.

Testing: Demonstrated proficiency with automated unit and integration testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito).

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience).

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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Skills

Oracle Java
AWS
Transaction processing
Leadership
CI/CD
Implement ICT recovery system
Microservices
API development
Spring Boot
Python
Root cause analysis
GitHub
Jenkins
Infrastructure as code
Data modelling
Data models
PostgreSQL
Test automation
JUnit
Computer science

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