Senior Full Stack Engineer (Contract)

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy AWS cloud solutions that improve data quality and automate business processes.

You'll work within the IT division alongside operations and business teams, taking on complex development work, owning parts of ongoing projects, and delivering on deadlines while helping raise the team's engineering standards.

You'll also write design specifications, unit test your code, produce technical documentation, and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders and cross-functional partners.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience building serverless solutions and a solid background in data management and transactional systems.

Qualifications needed for the role

• Minimum 7 years demonstrated experience with software development.
• Strong and evolving competence in several programming languages and technologies, working knowledge of multiple tool sets, technologies and implementation environments especially in the cloud
• Expert level experience in NodeJS and scripting in a Cloud based environment
• Demonstrated advanced experience with AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, RDS and DynamoDB, AWS CLI
• Possess strong technical skills and experience in the virtual infrastructure domain, specifically Amazon Web Services.
• Strong design and development experience in building and monitoring microservices
• Working experience on CI/CD using AWS Code pipeline
• Demonstrated experience in developing full stack solutions using NodeJS
• Working knowledge of distributed architectural design patterns
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and modern software engineering principles and practices
• Proficient in using AI coding assistants and autonomous agents to accelerate development, testing, and automation-while maintaining deep code understanding, critically validating AI outputs, and exercising technical ownership over all code

Preferred skills and attributes for the role

• High analytical skills and knack to develop tools for monitoring high frequency data services.
• Experience working on Agile teams with the scrum team member attitude - willingness to support the Team to be successful in any area necessary
• Advanced demonstrated experience with AWS cloud supported programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
• Ability to use: KMS, ALB/ELB, Route 53, VPC
• Fluency with CI/CD toolsets such as: CloudFormation, BitBucket, Jenkins, Ansible,GitHub
• Experience with relational databases, and NoSQL databases
• Experience building infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation or similar scripting techniques
• Appetite to Learn new things
• Knowledge in InfrastructureAsCode, and GenAI

Education/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree and/or other advanced degree(s)
• Relevant AWS or other professional certifications