Job Details

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position: Senior Full Stack Engineer

Mode: Contract - long term
Visa Considered? YES
Remote-only Considered? YES
Process: Submit Tech-Stack Grid via candidate screening - Upload Image/share remote interview protocol > 1 hour video session w/. There could be a follow up, but not always - verification - remote onboarding (address, email, phone must be accurate in supplier's VNDLY Instance)

Profile: This team seeks an EXPERT in JavaScript ES6, Typescript, Node JS , AWS Serverless and React
Team: This team is working on Student facing products/programs supporting, enhancing, and building AWS based React/ Node applications. Most dev teams work in a poly skilled manner working on automation and improving frameworks for testing in addition to core development. The hiring manager is looking for mid-to-senior engineers with solid skills including communication, motivation, collaboration, organization, problem-solving, creativity, curiosity, proactivity and who can operate with minimal guidance. Someone that can hit the ground running, is comfortable engaging with their teams remotely, and is a self-starter with proven technical ability. The engineer should be able to contribute to both frontend and backend code, with immediate focus on backend code.

Process: (verification of ID/must be on computer audio - video) .5 vide tech screen followed by a 1 hour tech/team w/white boarding video - remote onboarding (need address, phone, email, Mac acceptable?) - verification - remote start (equipment rcvd Fri before - log in at 8:45 for orientation & 9am start time)

Technology

NO Awareness of technology (0)

LITTLE Awareness - read/heard of technology (1)

EXPOSURE to technology in environment (2)

SOME development in technology (3)

Very COMFORTABLE developing in technology (4)

EXPERTISE in technology i.e. could teach a class (5)

AWS - DynamoDB

3

AWS - Lambda

4

AWS - S3

3

AWS - SNS/SQS

3

AWS RedShift Serverless

3

JavaScript (ES6 )

4

5

node.js
(cannot be only using NPM packages)

4

5

Typescript

3

React.js

3

4

AI-Augmented Development including Agentic Workflows

4

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, the candidate will be responsible for complex software development including coding, managing small sections of ongoing projects, collaborating with others, closely adhering to deadlines while advancing team's best practices. Candidate will also take responsibility for creating design specifications, unit testing, and preparing technical documentation. Candidate will ensure relationships with customers and cross-team members and are professional and meet expectations.

The Client - a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to providing excellence and equity in education - manages a complex and comprehensive suite of applications, data systems, data feeds and reports to support students and educators across multiple assessments, programs and services. Working within the Information Technology division and across the operations and key business units, the Senior Full Stack Engineer will analyze procedures, and design and implement solutions to design, deliver, and maintain high-quality software that is scalable, secure, and reusable. The Senior Full Stack Engineer will design, develop and implement solutions, based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency across the team and enterprise, reduce risk, and promote efficiencies in support of the organization's goals and objectives.

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.

Required Skills:

• 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

• Strong practical experience in JavaScript/Typescript based ecosystem and tools
• Possess technical skills and experience in the virtual infrastructure domain, specifically Amazon Web Services and AWS serverless technologies (Lambdas, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, Redshift etc.)

• Design and development experience in building and monitoring microservices

• Demonstrated experience in developing full stack solutions using NodeJS

• Working experience and discipline in Agile, CI/CD, DevOps best practices

• Fundamentals in OO and computer science foundation principles.

• 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. "
• Demonstrated experience building automation test suites
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code implementation

• Experience working on Agile teams with the scrum team member attitude - willingness to support the Team to be successful in any area necessary

• High analytical skills and ability to design, develop, build, refactor scalable, reuseable applications and monitor high frequency data services.

• Ability to use: KMS, SQS SNS, OpenSearch, Route 53, VPC

• Fluency with CI/CD toolsets such as: CloudFormation, gitHub, Ansible

• Experience with relational databases and NoSQL databases

• Experience building infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation or similar scripting techniques

• Appetite to learn new things, both business process and technology

• Knowledge in InfrastructureAsCode, and GenAI

• Bachelor's degree and/or other advanced degree(s)

• Relevant AWS or other professional certifications