Stand Together is seeking aSeniorSoftware Engineer to provide technicalleadershiponourhigh-visibilityconsumer-facingweb roleis responsible forthe architecture design and delivery of scalablesingle-pageapplications built onAWS.
TheSeniorSoftware Engineer will combine hands-on development with architectural oversight ensuring the reliability performance and long-term scalability of our digital ecosystem while mentoring engineers and partnering cross-functionally to deliver high-impact solutions.
Contribute toarchitecturedesignand technical decision-makingfor backend servicesContentfulCMS integrations and AWS cloud infrastructure.
Design build andmaintainscalable secure and high-performing APIs.
Improve CI/CD pipelines deployment processes monitoring observability and system reliability.
Ensure compliance with security governance and cloud infrastructure best practices within AWS.
Establish and enforce engineering standards best practices and scalable design patterns.
Provide technical mentorship supervision and performance guidance to engineers.
Partner with product design and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Bachelors or masters degree in computer science engineering or related field.
7 years of software engineering experienceincluding architecture.
Excellent collaboration communication and cross-functional partnership skills.
Strongbackend experiencepreferablyNestJS.
Experience designing and consuming APIs and distributed or microservices-based architectures.
Experience withJWT / OIDC authentication (Auth0 or equivalent) passport-jwt/ JWKS patterns.
Proven experience with both relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases able to design schemasoptimizequeries managemulti-environmentdeployments/backups/scaling and with hands-on operational MongoDB experience (replication sharding performance tuning) preferred.
Docker and container orchestration onAWS ECS(task definitions logging ECR).
AWS core services: AmplifyAPI GatewayALB/NLBS3EFSCloudWatchX-RayIAMVPC/VPC endpoints.
Experience building andmaintainingautomation within cloud-native environments usingIaCframeworks (Terraform Terragrunt).
CI/CD withGitHub Actionsand GitHub OIDC for secure AWS deployments.
Observabilityandopsexperience withlogs/metrics/alarms distributed tracingandproductiontroubleshooting.
Experience with security best practices includingIAM least-privilege private S3 patternsandsecretsmanagement.
Testingand qualityexperience includingunit/integration (Jest) e2e linting/formatting.
Experience integrating headless CMS platforms with modernfront-endframeworks.
Experienceintegrating withContentfulCMS Drupal and WordPress platforms.
Zod / schema-first validation andOpenAPIgenerationtooling experience.
Hands-on withCloudPosseTerraform modulesandterragruntlayout patterns.
Performance tuningfor apps and MongoDB plus caching strategies.
Experience with EFS for stateful containersand mounting/permission management.
Knowledge ofCheckov/ Terraform security scanningand Terraform CI checks.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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