Senior Full Stack Engineer – Digital Platforms

Senior Full Stack Engineer Digital Platforms
Location: Birmingham AL (Remote)
Position type: W2 contract

Mandatory skills: Fullstack development Python go AWS (EKS Lambda API Gateway CloudFormation Terraform) Restful API

Position Summary

The Senior Full Stack Engineer designs builds and supports high-quality solutions for our member and agent portals. This hands-on role requires strong expertise in modern frontend (React ) and backend (Python Go ) technologies within a microservices and AWS-based environment with regular collaboration across onshore and offshore engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

Development & Architecture

Design develop and maintain application features across frontend (React ) and backend services (Python Go ).

Participate in architectural design discussions and contribute to technical direction of applications and services.

Implement RESTful APIs and backend services following SOLID design principles and microservices best practices.

Write clean testable maintainable code with appropriate unit integration and end-to-end tests.

Own services through the full SDLC: requirements design coding testing deployment monitoring and support.

Collaboration & Leadership

Work within an Agile team with product owners QA and engineers to deliver incremental value.

Collaborate closely with offshore team members ensuring clear requirements shared design understanding and consistent coding standards.

Coordinate handoffs and overlap with offshore teams to maintain velocity and manage dependencies.

Mentor junior and mid-level engineers (onshore and offshore) through code reviews pairing and coaching.

Infrastructure & Operations

Contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements for automated reliable deployments to AWS.

Work with AWS services (EKS Lambda API Gateway) and Kubernetes/EKS for container orchestration.

Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues perform root cause analysis and implement fixes.

Ensure solutions are scalable reliable and secure meeting internal and external customer needs.

Continuous Improvement

Stay current with emerging technologies and propose improvements to enhance capabilities and productivity.

Collaborate with leadership to evolve technical standards coding guidelines and best practices.

Explore opportunities to leverage Amazon Bedrock and prompt engineering for intelligent features (if applicable).

Required Qualifications

Education & Experience

Bachelors degree in computer science mathematics engineering or related field or equivalent practical experience.

4 7 years of professional software engineering experience in full stack or backend-focused roles.

Technical Skills

Hands-on expertise in:

Frontend: React

Backend: Python Go

Strong understanding of microservices architecture and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).

Experience with AWS services: EKS Lambda API Gateway CloudFormation/Terraform.

Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and deployments to AWS.

Solid understanding of REST principles and SOLID design principles.

Collaboration & Communication

Experience collaborating with offshore or distributed teams across time zones.

Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Strong problem-solving abilities for complex distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in healthcare pharmacy benefits insurance or regulated industries.

Familiarity with Amazon Bedrock and prompt engineering or modern AI/ML platforms.

Experience with observability tools (logging metrics tracing) for microservices.

Background in performance tuning resiliency patterns and security best practices.

Experience with mobile application development.

Core Competencies

Problem Solving & Decision Making Strong analytical skills to evaluate options and make sound technical decisions.

Accountability & Responsibility Ownership of deliverables ensuring quality and reliability.

Communication Clear communication across teams effective documentation and constructive feedback.

Collaboration & Teamwork Effective collaboration within Agile teams across onshore and offshore locations.

Customer Focus Build scalable reliable and secure solutions meeting customer needs.