Platform Engineer Contractor: End-to-End Software

Gamma Phi Omega International; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

MBTA is seeking a Software Engineer to deliver features end-to-end and improve code quality across platform engineering initiatives. This hybrid role requires being in the office at least two days per week and collaboration with Product Managers, UX, and other teams to refine requirements and design scalable solutions.

As part of Platform Engineering, you will work with AWS-based resources, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines to strengthen reliability and observability.

Qualifications

• Two (2) years of relevant professional experience in software engineering.
• Experience independently delivering features end-to-end to solve problems.
• Experience applying software engineering principles and practices to quickly and creatively achieve team or project goals.
• Experience with monitoring, on‑call, incident response, and reliability engineering.
• Strong debugging and investigative skills.
• Experience with software testing best practices and CI/CD.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technology.
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform a wide variety of software engineering tasks in the relevant languages.
• Deliver and maintain well-architected features from design through implementation.
• Demonstrate strong coding and debugging skills and explain tradeoffs to meet deadlines.

Skills

Elixir

AWS

APIs

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor degree

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Pulumi

CI/CD tooling

Job description

MBTA is seeking a Software Engineer to deliver features end-to-end and improve code quality across platform engineering initiatives. This hybrid role requires being in the office at least two days per week and collaboration with Product Managers, UX, and other teams to refine requirements and design scalable solutions.

As part of Platform Engineering, you will work with AWS-based resources, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines to strengthen reliability and observability.