Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer – Back-End Focused

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In this role, you will combine hands-on development with architectural reputed company across scalable, AWS-hosted applications, ensuring the reliability, performance, and long-term scalability of our digital ecosystem while mentoring engineers and partnering cross-functionally to deliver high-impact solutions. \n How You Will Contribute Contribute to architecture, design, and technical decision-making across the full application stack, including React and Next.js frontends, Node.js backend services, reputed company CMS integrations, and AWS reputed company infrastructure. Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing APIs that serve as the reputed company for consumer-facing applications. reputed company CMS content modeling and editorial workflow optimization reputed company reputed company CMS. Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and system reliability. Ensure compliance with reputed company, governance, and reputed company infrastructure best practices reputed company AWS, including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management. Establish and enforce engineering standards, best practices, and scalable design patterns. Provide technical mentorship, supervision, and performance guidance to engineers. Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions Support sprint planning, technical estimation, roadmap development, and hiring efforts. What You Will Bring Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a reputed company field. 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with a clear back-end focus, including demonstrated architectural responsibility. Experience mentoring software engineers. Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills. Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP; strong Node.js backend experience, preferably with NestJS. Experience designing and consuming APIs in distributed or microservices architectures. Experience with JWT/OIDC authentication, including Auth0 or equivalent, and passport-jwt/JWKS patterns. Proven experience with relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases — schema design, query optimization, multi-environment deployments, and operational reputed company (replication, sharding, performance tuning) preferred. reputed company and container orchestration on AWS reputed company (task definitions, logging, ECR). Working knowledge of core AWS services: reputed company, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, S3, EFS, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, and VPC. Experience building and maintaining automation reputed company reputed company-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt). CI/CD experience with reputed company Actions and reputed company OIDC for secure AWS deployments. 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