Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer – Back-End Focused

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture, design, and technical decision‑making across the full application stack, including React and Next.js frontends, Node.js backend services, Contentful CMS integrations, and AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high‑performing APIs that serve as the foundation for consumer‑facing applications.
• Oversee CMS content modeling and editorial workflow optimization within Contentful CMS.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and system reliability.
• Ensure compliance with security, governance, and cloud infrastructure best practices within AWS, including IAM least‑privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management.
• 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.
• Support sprint planning, technical estimation, roadmap development, and hiring efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of full‑stack software engineering experience with a clear back‑end focus, including demonstrated architectural responsibility.
• Experience mentoring software engineers.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross‑functional partnership skills.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP; strong Node.js backend experience, preferably with NestJS.
• Experience designing and consuming APIs in distributed or microservices architectures.
• Experience with JWT/OIDC authentication, including Auth0 or equivalent, and passport‑jwt/JWKS patterns.
• Proven experience with relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases — schema design, query optimization, multi‑environment deployments, and operational MongoDB (replication, sharding, performance tuning) preferred.
• Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS (task definitions, logging, ECR).
• Working knowledge of core AWS services: Amplify, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, S3, EFS, CloudWatch, X‑Ray, IAM, and VPC.
• Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud‑native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt).
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and GitHub OIDC for secure AWS deployments.
• Observability and production operations experience: logs, metrics, alarms, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting.
• Security best practices experience including IAM least‑privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management.
• Testing and quality discipline across unit, integration, and e2e layers (Jest), with strong linting and formatting standards.
• Experience integrating headless CMS platforms with modern front‑end frameworks.
• Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in full‑stack software engineering with a strong focus on back‑end development, including proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP. Capable of designing scalable APIs, optimizing CI/CD processes, and ensuring compliance with security best practices in AWS environments.