Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer – Back-End Focused

As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Back-End Focused) on our Enterprise IT team, you will own the architecture and reliability of the backend systems powering Stand Together's high-visibility, consumer-facing web applications.

In this role, you will combine hands-on development with architectural oversight 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.

• Contribute to architecture, design, and technical decision-making across the full application stack, including React and Next.js frontends, Node.js backend services, Contentful CMS integrations, and AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing APIs that serve as the foundation for consumer-facing applications.
• Oversee CMS content modeling and editorial workflow optimization within Contentful CMS.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and system reliability.
• Ensure compliance with security, governance, and cloud infrastructure best practices within 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.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related 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 MongoDB (replication, sharding, performance tuning) preferred.