Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js/AWS)

Quick Facts

• Title: Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js/AWS)
• Location: Remote
• Duration: Long Term

Description

Senior Backend Engineer role designing, building, testing, deploying, and documenting AWS backend solutions and continuous delivery pipelines. You’ll develop multi-tenant backend services with tenant data isolation, own DevOps for deployments/monitoring/production support, and use AI coding agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot safely. The role emphasizes reusable patterns/components, high-quality engineering practices, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend AWS solutions and continuous delivery pipelines with quality
• Write complex code and build/maintain AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK; automate testing and deployment
• Design multi-tenant backend services with tenant data isolation
• Own DevOps for solutions: deployments, monitoring, and production support
• Use AI coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to design, write, test, and document code; ensure shipped quality
• Review AI-generated code with the same rigor as other code
• Set quality criteria, use reviews, and continuously improve work
• Write design specs, unit tests, and technical documentation, including documenting current-state systems
• Develop and apply standards, patterns, and processes to improve consistency, reduce risk, and increase efficiency
• Define best practices for modeling, storing, and moving data in cloud applications
• Mentor teammates on best practices, cloud technologies, and safe use of AI coding tools
• Improve team processes, speed, and quality with ideas from other teams and the industry

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or MIS
• 7+ years of experience in software systems and backend programming
• 5+ years of backend development with Node.js and TypeScript on AWS
• 4+ years hands-on with AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, and DynamoDB
• Strong hands-on experience building AWS infrastructure as code with AWS CDK
• Strong experience with Git and associated methodologies
• Working experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools
• Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS applications, including tenant data isolation and tenant-scoped access control
• Working knowledge of AWS serverless architecture, distributed architecture patterns, and AWS data services such as Athena and Glue
• Hands-on experience using Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to build, test, and ship production software
• Good judgment on when to trust, check, or reject AI-generated code; awareness of risks such as prompt injection, data exposure, and over-broad permissions
• Experience mentoring other engineers on cloud technology
• Strong problem-solving and analytic skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects, work independently, and be a supportive Scrum team member

Benefits

• Long-term role with remote work
• Opportunity to work on highly visible, critical applications in an agile environment
• Ability to shape reusable backend patterns and help advance team systems
• Use AI coding agents in everyday development with an emphasis on safety and quality