Remote Senior Backend Architect - AWS IoT & Serverless

Hunter Industries Inc.; United States; A distancia; USD 110.000 - 135.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Amazing culture

Fun company events

Donation matching and volunteering

Career development bonus

Descripción de la vacante

Hunter Industries seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud Services) to lead design and delivery of AWS-based backend systems for an IoT consumer app. You will build Python-based Lambda microservices, REST APIs, and IaC with Terraform, while mentoring engineers and shaping scalable backend standards.

This remote US-based role requires strong cloud architecture, serverless and IoT expertise, secure production operations, and close collaboration with firmware/mobile/DevOps teams.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• Six+ years of professional software engineering experience, with four years in backend/cloud systems in production.
• Experience leading technical design for distributed, serverless, event-driven or IoT-connected systems.

Responsabilidades

• Leads the technical design, implementation, and evolution of backend and cloud services for a scalable AWS-based IoT consumer application.
• Owns backend architecture across APIs, service domains, data models, event-driven workflows, telemetry pipelines, AWS IoT Core integrations, and cloud/device communication patterns.
• Designs, develops, deploys, and maintains Python-based AWS Lambda microservices, RESTful APIs, and backend services connecting mobile/web apps to cloud, devices, scheduling, user, notification, reporting, and support functions.
• Provides player-coach technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, implementation guidance, and hands-on development.
• Defines architecture patterns, API contracts, data flows, service boundaries, schema standards, integration patterns, and operational expectations.
• Leads cross-functional alignment with firmware, mobile, QA, DevOps, Product, Security, and consultants to translate requirements into reliable backend, cloud, and device communication designs.
• Designs and implements scalable AWS IoT Core and telemetry architectures including secure device connectivity, MQTT, Device Shadows, command processing, device synchronization, event ingestion, and fleet-scale patterns.
• Owns backend logic, data models, and automation workflows supporting irrigation scheduling, user preferences, environmental conditions, offline behavior, provisioning, notifications, firmware workflows, reporting, analytics, and AI/ML‑supported recommendations.
• Ensures production readiness through monitoring, logging, testing, CI/CD, incident response, and runbooks.
• Implements secure backend practices including authentication, authorization, data protection, secrets management, least-privilege, and secure device communication.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex production/integration issues with high availability and data integrity.

Conocimientos

Python

AWS Lambda

REST APIs

Event-driven design

Serverless architecture

CI/CD

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Herramientas

Terraform

AWS IoT Core

DynamoDB

Aurora/RDS

S3

Descripción del empleo

Hunter Industries seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud Services) to lead design and delivery of AWS-based backend systems for an IoT consumer app. You will build Python-based Lambda microservices, REST APIs, and IaC with Terraform, while mentoring engineers and shaping scalable backend standards.

This remote US-based role requires strong cloud architecture, serverless and IoT expertise, secure production operations, and close collaboration with firmware/mobile/DevOps teams.