Principal Full Stack Engineer AWS

This is a remote role, VISA SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE.

Our large, Fortune Technology client is ranked as one of the best companies to work with, in the world. As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, they foster a progressive culture, creativity, and a flexible work environment. They use cutting-edge technologies to keep themselves ahead of the curve. Diversity in all aspects is respected. Integrity, experience, honesty, people, humanity, and passion for excellence are some other adjectives that define this global technology leader.

This group strives to embrace a leading-edge yet pragmatic engineering focus on practices that provide consistent value to our customers, like Cloud and integration technologies, DevOps capabilities, and a Disciplined agile delivery. To support this vision, we are looking for a strong full-stack developer who has built solutions in the cloud (AWS strongly preferred). In addition, this individual should be self-driven, a strong communicator, and a collaborator.

Qualifications:

• Consistent with the role, have strong architectural skills and the ability to design scalable, available, resilient, and cost-effective applications in the cloud (preferably AWS). The candidate should have the ability to pick out the right tech stack and tools for the problem to be solved
• Strong technical expertise in building Restful microservices using Node.js with an appropriate data store suited to the problem at hand (should be comfortable with both Relational and NoSQL databases)
• Technical expertise in building UI using React
• Good knowledge of API security and data encryption
• Strong DevOps and Quality mindset with design and implementation experience in the areas of CI/CD, Observability, and Test automation
• We want a team that solves the problems of today but also can evolve. To that end, we want a team member with a curious & growth mindset, a collaborative work style that seeks to understand & drive solutions, and effective communication.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the full stack development of the platform (consisting of a web application and APIs)
• Contribute to the DevOps functions of scalable, secure & cost-effective customer-facing web and software applications in the AWS cloud (Lambda, ECS containers, API Gateway, RDS)
• Proactively work to evaluate and adopt technology solutions to build the platform
• Use strong Quality and DevOps practices to build maintainable and extensible solutions. The resolutions that you help build are pragmatic and resilient and consider the upstream and downstream process and system impacts. You are strongly invested in Unit Testing
• Work to meet Built with Forge pillars that encompass Engineering Excellence, Build and Deploy, Operational Excellence, Recoverability & Reliability areas
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand the use cases that fuel the business and translate them into functional and non-functional requirements
• Support the products you build in Production
• Mentor and work with team members spread in APAC, EMEA, and the US