Back-end Software Development Engineer
Fast Switch · MI
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Jul 12, 2026
MI
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A back-end engineering role focused on building and maintaining microservices for a large-scale connected vehicle cloud platform. Day-to-day work involves developing Java/Spring Boot services with REST and gRPC APIs, managing Kafka-based event streams, and deploying containerized workloads to Kubernetes on AWS. The role suits an experienced cloud software engineer comfortable with CI/CD pipelines, TDD, observability, and operating high-availability, production-grade distributed systems.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
This posting is placed by FastTek Global, an IT staffing/consulting firm. The role is almost certainly a contract or contract-to-hire placement; no explicit employment type is stated in the job description itself, but the staffing-firm context and requisition number (#1060508) strongly suggest a contract engagement.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience,' which means equivalent experience is accepted in lieu of a degree — treated as no hard degree gate.
All skills under 'Skills Required' and the 'Key Traits' section are marked as required. Skills appearing only under 'Skills Preferred' or 'Experience Preferred' are marked as preferred.
AWS appears in the 'Skills Preferred' section and is therefore preferred, even though it is also referenced in the 'Key Traits' narrative block. The 'Key Traits' section reads as context/scope description rather than a separate hard-requirements gate.
Canary deployments and JSON are mentioned under 'Experience Preferred' but name no specific standalone tool; they were omitted from the skills list as they are methodologies or data formats rather than named technologies warranting a separate skill entry.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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