Senior AWS Software Engineer — Cloud, Scale & Security

Early Warning; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain software and AWS-based services powering payments and fraud-fighting platforms. You will translate requirements into reliable solutions and mentor other engineers across the full development lifecycle.

The role emphasizes cloud architecture, security, observability, and cost optimization, with a hybrid model available in Scottsdale and other major cities. Prior AWS and Java expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Typically has 5 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting production software applications.
• Hands-on experience developing or operating applications in AWS.
• Proficiency in at least one applicable programming language, such as Java, C#, C++, Python, JavaScript, or another language used by the assigned team.
• Experience with SQL, relational database concepts, or other data-storage technologies appropriate to the application environment.
• Experience with source-code management, peer code reviews, automated testing, and software-development lifecycle practices.
• Experience with APIs, web services, distributed systems, event-driven processing, or asynchronous application patterns.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure, deployment automation, or infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Understanding of AWS identity and access management, networking, logging, monitoring, data protection, and secure application configuration.
• Experience troubleshooting applications across multiple technical layers and supporting issues in test or production environments.
• Ability to prepare technical designs and documentation from business and technical requirements.
• Ability to assess technical alternatives, communicate recommendations, and contribute to sound engineering decisions.
• Ability to work collaboratively within an iterative Agile or Lean software-development environment.
• Ability to mentor engineers and provide constructive technical feedback.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, document, test, deploy, and maintain new and existing software systems and applications.
• Translate business, functional, and technical requirements into detailed software designs and technical specifications.
• Serve as a technical resource on development projects and contribute to architecture, design, code-review, and implementation decisions.
• Develop and maintain applications and services deployed within AWS environments.
• Design cloud solutions using appropriate AWS compute, storage, database, networking, integration, and security capabilities.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, and repeatable environment configuration processes.
• Develop and support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for application build, testing, deployment, and release activities.
• Apply cloud security practices, including identity and access controls, encryption, secrets management, secure configuration, vulnerability remediation, and logging.
• Implement application and cloud monitoring, alerting, tracing, and operational dashboards to support availability and performance.
• Evaluate application performance, capacity, scalability, resilience, and cost; recommend and implement improvements.
• Design applications for fault tolerance, recovery, and continuity within established technical and business requirements.
• Analyze application code, cloud configurations, logs, metrics, and system behavior to identify the causes of errors or service degradation.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, database, integration, and network layers.
• Support user acceptance testing and production applications, including incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and follow-through.
• Develop and maintain unit, functional, integration, regression, performance, and system tests.
• Participate in software design meetings and collaborate with product, engineering, security, infrastructure, architecture, and business stakeholders.
• Evaluate new technologies and AWS capabilities for potential implementation based on business value, technical fit, security, reliability, and cost.
• Contribute to estimates, delivery planning, technical documentation, support procedures, and operational readiness activities.
• Mentor Software Engineers and provide guidance on software design, coding, testing, cloud engineering, troubleshooting, and development practices.
• Support multiple initiatives while meeting established commitments and delivery deadlines.
• Comply with all security policies and procedures to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and data.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Java

AWS

Python

JavaScript

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Early Warning is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain software and AWS-based services powering payments and fraud-fighting platforms. You will translate requirements into reliable solutions and mentor other engineers across the full development lifecycle.

The role emphasizes cloud architecture, security, observability, and cost optimization, with a hybrid model available in Scottsdale and other major cities. Prior AWS and Java expertise are essential.