Senior Developer 1 for Non-Authoring Backend Logic
Alight SolutionsNoida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Posted January 20, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Alight is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider for many of the world’s largest organizations. Through the administration of employee benefits, Alight powers confident health, wealth, leaves and wellbeing decisions for 35 million people and dependents. Our Alight Worklife® platform empowers employers to gain a deeper understanding of their workforce and engage them throughout life’s most important moments with personalized benefits management and data-driven insights, leading to increased employee wellbeing, engagement and productivity. Learn how Alight unlocks growth for organizations of all sizes at alight.com.
Job Description
Backend engineer responsible for designing and building cloud-native, event-driven data and analytics services on AWS, with a focus on serverless application development, ETL pipelines, and enabling self-service analytics and reporting in Amazon Quick Sight.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience (6+ Years) building applications and services on Amazon Web Services (AWS), ideally in a cloud application architect or backend engineer capacity.
- Advanced proficiency in Python for backend development, ETL, and automation (including use within AWS Lambda and AWS Glue jobs).
- Proven experience with serverless computing on AWS, including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and event-driven integration patterns.
- Solid experience designing and maintaining ETL pipelines and data workflows using AWS Glue (jobs, workflows, and crawlers) and related data integration tooling.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with analytical databases and data warehouses, especially Amazon Redshift.
- Practical knowledge of data warehousing concepts (dimensional modelling, fact/dimension design, slowly changing dimensions, data partitioning, and indexing).
- Experience with big data analytics workloads on AWS (S3-based data lakes, Parquet/ORC, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, or similar).
- Hands-on experience with Business Intelligence (BI) and data visualization tools, with a preference for Amazon QuickSight (dataset design, dashboards, security).
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure fundamentals (VPC, subnets, networking, IAM, encryption, security best practices) in AWS.
- At least one relevant AWS certification (e.g., Solutions Architect, Data Analytics, Developer, or similar) or equivalent practical expertise.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Maternity, Paternity & Adoption Leave
- Continuing education and training
- Flexible working arrangements
- Health coverage options
- Wellbeing and support programs