Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps changemakers address major social problems through resources, partnerships, and proven approaches. The organization is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Middleware and Integrations to provide technical leadership for scalable, consumer-facing web applications on AWS, while guiding architecture, reliability, delivery, and engineering development.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to architecture, design, and technical decision-making for our Node.js backend services, Contentful CMS integrations, and AWS cloud infrastructure
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing APIs
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and system reliability
- Ensure compliance with security, governance, and cloud infrastructure best practices within AWS
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
- 7+ years of software engineering experience including architecture
- Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills
- Proficiency in programming languages, including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP
- Strong Node.js backend experience—preferably NestJS
- Experience designing and consuming APIs and distributed or microservices-based architectures
- Experience with JWT / OIDC authentication (Auth0 or equivalent), passport-jwt / JWKS patterns
- Proven experience with both relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases — able to design schemas, optimize queries, manage multi-environment deployments/backups/scaling, and with hands-on operational MongoDB experience (replication, sharding, performance tuning)
- Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS (task definitions, logging, ECR)
- AWS core services: Amplify, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, S3, EFS, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, VPC/VPC endpoints
- Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt)
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions and GitHub OIDC for secure AWS deployments
- Observability and ops experience with logs/metrics/alarms, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting
- Experience with 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
- Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's [vision and principled approach](https://standtogether.org/our-vision-and-principles) to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding [our culture](https://standtogether.org/careers/our-culture), which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect
- Zod / schema-first validation and OpenAPI generation tooling experience
- Hands-on with CloudPosse Terraform modules and terragrunt layout patterns
- Performance tuning for Node.js apps and MongoDB, plus caching strategies
- Experience with EFS for stateful containers and mounting/permission management
- Knowledge of Checkov / Terraform security scanning and Terraform CI checks
- Experience with both relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases — able to design schemas, optimize queries, manage multi-environment deployments/backups/scaling, and with hands-on operational MongoDB experience (replication, sharding, performance tuning) preferred
- Experience integrating with Contentful CMS, Drupal and WordPress platforms
Benefits
- 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting
- Flexible time off
- Comprehensive health and dental plans
- Wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace
- Bonus opportunities
- A non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents
- Remote work for US-based candidates
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