Senior Full-Stack & Cloud Engineer (Contract - 6 months)
Flix · Atlanta, GA · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$50–$60/hrContract
About the role
- Take technical ownership of the existing application, including reviewing and understanding the AI-generated codebase.
- Identify technical debt, security vulnerabilities, and architectural risks, and refactor where appropriate without unnecessarily rebuilding working parts.
- Develop and maintain front-end, back-end, API, and database functionality, and build new features as business needs evolve.
- Establish coding, documentation, testing, and code-review standards.
- Design and maintain simple, secure, cost-effective hosting with separate development/test and production environments.
- Implement automated CI/CD pipelines with a documented deployment and rollback process.
- Manage configuration, secrets, certificates, and domains, and establish backup and recovery processes.
- Implement monitoring, logging, error tracking, and alerting, and track reliability, performance, and cost.
- Implement SSO-based authentication, role-based access control, least-privilege permissions, and audit logging.
- Conduct a production-readiness assessment, execute a prioritized remediation plan, and partner with IT/security to meet organizational requirements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience owning production applications.
- Strong full-stack development capabilities using modern web technologies.
- Experience inheriting, evaluating, and improving existing codebases.
- Experience deploying and supporting applications in a major cloud or managed hosting environment.
- Strong understanding of Git-based software-development workflows.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
- Working knowledge of relational databases, database security, migrations, and backups.
- Experience implementing authentication, authorization, SSO, OAuth and/or OpenID Connect.
- Strong understanding of application-security fundamentals, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
- Experience implementing production logging, monitoring, alerting, and error tracking.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot production issues across the application and infrastructure stack.
Skills
- Experience supporting internal enterprise applications.
- Experience integrating applications with Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD, Okta, Google Workspace, or similar enterprise identity platforms.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
Benefits
At Flix, you’ll find teams that rally together to overcome challenges and spark creativity. We believe in ownership culture - giving you the freedom to take initiative, make an impact, and shape your own career path. As we continue to expand across the globe, you can make a real difference in how we work. If you’re ready to grow and lead your journey, Flix is the place for you!
Pay
Hourly Pay Range: $50.00 - $60.00 USD