Remote Cloud Backend Engineer — Modernize AWS Services

Jeppesen ForeFlight, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Open PTO Policy

401(k) with company match

Maternity/Paternity leave

Flight Training Rewards

Job summary

Jeppesen ForeFlight seeks a Software Engineer to build cloud-hosted backends that support JDM desktop and mobile apps. You will modernize services in AWS, Kubernetes, Apache, Linux, PHP, and SQL Server while ensuring uptime and secure operations.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, design scalable architectures, and apply CI/CD and IaC practices. Travel to Austin/Denver on a quarterly basis is expected for in-office collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience developing or modernizing backend services in production cloud environments.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, cloud-native architecture patterns, and common cloud operational practices.
• Experience designing and supporting scalable, resilient backend systems that serve high-volume customer workflows.
• Experience with establishing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, automated backend jobs, deployment workflows, or operational scripting.
• Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, observability, patching, and production support practices.
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices, including access control, patch management, secrets handling, and secure service configuration.
• Experience with Kubernetes cluster management, troubleshooting, configuration, and containerized application deployments.
• Experience with infrastructure as code
• Ability to diagnose and resolve issues across application code, infrastructure, containers, databases, and cloud services.
• Experience using AI-augmented development tools to support development, debugging, testing, and code review
• Ability to work independently on moderately complex technical problems while collaborating with senior engineers and cross-functional teams
• Strong communication skills and the ability to document technical decisions, risks, and operational procedures

Responsibilities

• Develop and modernize cloud-hosted backend services using cloud-native technologies and managed services where appropriate.
• Help design scalable and resilient backend architecture that can support growth, high download volumes, and new products or data packages with minimal engineering effort.
• Improve backend web services, integrations, automated jobs, and operational workflows used by desktop and mobile applications.
• Improve infrastructure automation, CI/CD, monitoring, high availability, disaster recovery, and production support practices.
• Apply cloud security best practices across services, infrastructure, automation, access control, and deployment processes.
• Identify and mitigate risks, issues, and technical debt in backend services and cloud infrastructure.
• Maintain and support existing AWS-hosted legacy backend services built on Apache, Linux, PHP, SQL Server, Kubernetes, Docker, and CloudFormation.
• Manage, debug, and maintain Kubernetes clusters, containerized services, infrastructure-as-code templates, and AWS environments.
• Patch and maintain existing infrastructure and application.
• Collaborate with desktop, mobile, QA, DevOps, and product teams to deliver reliable backend services.
• Use AI-augmented development tools to support software design, implementation, debugging, testing, refactoring, and code review while preserving code quality and security

Skills

Backend development

Cloud-native design

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Linux/Unix

Security/compliance

Java/Python

Documentation

Team collaboration

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Apache

Docker

PHP

SQL Server

CloudFormation

Linux

Job description

Jeppesen ForeFlight seeks a Software Engineer to build cloud-hosted backends that support JDM desktop and mobile apps. You will modernize services in AWS, Kubernetes, Apache, Linux, PHP, and SQL Server while ensuring uptime and secure operations.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, design scalable architectures, and apply CI/CD and IaC practices. Travel to Austin/Denver on a quarterly basis is expected for in-office collaboration.