Senior Software Engineer – Middleware & Integration

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the architecture, design, and technical decision-making for our Node.js backend services, Contentful CMS integrations, and AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Design, construct, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance APIs.

• Enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and system reliability.

• Ensure adherence to security, governance, and best practices for cloud infrastructure within AWS.

• Establish and uphold engineering standards, best practices, and scalable design patterns.

• Offer technical mentorship, supervision, and performance guidance to engineers.

• Collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to convert requirements into technical solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

• Over 7 years of software engineering experience, including architectural roles.

• Exceptional collaboration, communication, and cross-functional partnership abilities.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP.

• Strong experience with Node.js backend, preferably using NestJS.

• Experience in designing and consuming APIs and distributed or microservices-based architectures.

• Familiarity with JWT / OIDC authentication (Auth0 or similar), passport-jwt / JWKS patterns.

• Proven experience with both relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases — capable of designing schemas, optimizing queries, managing multi-environment deployments/backups/scaling, with hands-on operational experience in MongoDB (replication, sharding, performance tuning) preferred.

• Experience with Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS (task definitions, logging, ECR).

• Knowledge of AWS core services: Amplify, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, S3, EFS, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, VPC/VPC endpoints.

• Experience in building and maintaining automation within cloud-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt).

• Proficient in CI/CD with GitHub Actions and GitHub OIDC for secure AWS deployments.

• Observability and operational experience with logs/metrics/alarms, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting.

• Knowledge of security best practices, including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management.

• Testing and quality experience, including unit/integration (Jest), e2e, linting/formatting.

• Experience integrating headless CMS platforms with modern front-end frameworks.

• A strong desire to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to problem-solving, along with a commitment to nurturing our culture, which values transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, and wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.

• A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees committed to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.

• Commitment to growth: Flourish in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop, and apply their unique talents.

• Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities.