Senior AWS Software Engineer

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior AWS Software Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-native applications that power our next generation of services. This role combines backend expertise in AWS microservices with hands-on front-end development using modern JavaScript frameworks. You’ll play a key role in driving engineering excellence, ensuring application security, mentoring teammates, and collaborating across teams to deliver exceptional user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and Develop Microservices: Build and maintain scalable, high-performance microservices and APIs leveraging AWS services such as ECS/EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway.
• Front-End Development: Build and maintain small web front ends using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Webpack, Storybook, and SingleSPA, ensuring seamless user experiences and consistent component design.
• Application Security: Implement and enforce security best practices throughout the application lifecycle, adhering to OWASP guidelines and secure coding standards.
• Code Quality and Collaboration: Participate actively in peer design and code reviews, write automated tests, and contribute to continuous quality improvement initiatives.
• Agile Development: Engage in daily scrums, sprint planning, and retrospectives to support an agile, iterative development process.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with other developers, QA engineers, UI/UX designers, and product managers to design, implement, and deliver high-quality features and improvements.
• Performance and Scalability: Contribute to scalability and performance enhancements for a high-traffic, multi-tenant application, ensuring reliability and efficient resource utilization.
• Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and contribute to team knowledge-sharing and code reviews.
• Culture and Growth: Be part of a work culture that encourages learning, growth, and collaboration, believing that it is with great people that we achieve great things.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on AWS-based applications.
• Strong experience developing microservices and distributed systems using Python, Node.js, Go, or Java.
• Proficiency with React, Next.js, and TypeScript, along with front-end build tools like Webpack, Storybook, and SingleSPA.
• Deep understanding of AWS cloud services, including compute, storage, and networking.
• Strong understanding of secure software development and OWASP principles.
• Experience writing and maintaining automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end).
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and modern development workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, or EKS).
• Knowledge of RESTful API design and GraphQL.
• Experience optimizing application performance and scalability in multi-tenant environments.
• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or Developer – Associate/Professional.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Passion for clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Growth mindset and enthusiasm for mentoring and continuous learning.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits.
Flexible, collaborative, and remote-friendly environment.
Opportunity to build impactful products at scale using cutting-edge AWS, TypeScript, and Next.js technologies.
Culture that values people, innovation, and continuous improvement.