Senior Backend Engineer AWS Serverless

Client: College Board

Title: Senior Backend Engineer AWS Serverless

Location: 100% Remote

Duration: Long Term

Profile:

• They seek a senior to lead-level candidate with SOLID AWS solutions experience and JavaScript coding.
• This team is the interface with the vendors for scoring feeds and then connects to the program applications.
• This role is nearly solely focused on back-end microservices coding in all the AWS tech stack, building applications to run here.

Job Description:

• As a Senior Software Engineer, the ideal candidate will have designed, developed, unit tested, implemented and documented solutions that include not only the code to supports business functionality, but also the underlying infrastructure required to run that code and the systems required to deploy it.
• The ideal candidate will have designed, developed and implemented serverless software solutions in support of data quality and automation.
• The candidate will also possess technical skills and experience in the data management domain that will help their ability to design and develop elegant and efficient data processes and systems.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement standards, patterns and processes which establish consistency across the enterprise data, reduce risk, and promote efficiencies in support of the organization s goals and objectives.
• Develop and implement solutions, based on that set of standards, patterns and processes.
• Developing full stack AWS Cloud solutions and continuous delivery frameworks that improve the ability of the CB IT delivery teams to efficiently deliver solutions with quality.
• Write complex code, building infrastructure as code, work with immutable cloud based environments, and build the supporting automated toolsets to test and deploy the systems they develop.
• Responsible for the quality of their work; will develop and implement a set of quality criteria and the associated validation method to ensure that any deliverable meets the expected quality levels of our customers, use quality management to ensure quality levels are maintained, seek new approaches and techniques to improve quality levels, employ reviews and observations to maintain the quality and continuous improvement process, and analyze the impact of quality control and quality assurance on project performance.
• Use metrics to establish feasibility of new initiatives and develop plans, including budget, sequencing and time frames.
• Actively review their own and the team s work processes and implements improvements seen from other teams or in industry to drive continuous improvement of the team s efficiency, speed, and quality
• The candidate will also take responsibility for creating design specifications, unit testing, and preparing technical documentation.

Education/Experience

• A bachelor s degree in computer science, Engineering or MIS.
• 7+ years of experience in software systems, programming, database development, and infrastructure development and administration
• Demonstrated experience in leading and mentoring technical staff in the development and usage of cloud technology and solutions
• Minimum 5 years demonstrated experience with full stack development.
• 3+ years demonstrated experience with AWS cloud supported programming languages like Javascript, Node JS, React JS, Angular JS or Python development.
• 2+ years hands-on with AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, EC2, RDS and DynamoDB, AWS CLI
• Ability to use or learn: KMS, ALB/ELB, Route 53, VPC
• Fluency with CI/CD toolsets such as: Jenkins, Ansible, CloudFormation, BitBucket
• Working knowledge of AWS Serverless architecture
• Working knowledge of distributed architectural design patterns
• Strong and evolving competence in several programming languages and technologies, working knowledge of multiple tools sets, technologies and implementation environments