Senior Backend Architect - Cloud Orchestration (Remote US)

WideNet Consulting Group; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 103,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Medical Benefits

401K

Employee Assistance Program

Sick Time

Job summary

WideNet Consulting Group is seeking a senior backend engineer to own cloud-native orchestration services, API contracts, and data publishing. You will design scalable architectures, work on REST/GraphQL interfaces, and ensure robust observability in production.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead design reviews, and drive CI/CD and secure infrastructure in a fully remote US environment. Competitive hourly pay and benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend engineering with leadership
• 3+ years with cloud serverless and orchestration services (AWS preferred)
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in computer science or related field
• Proficiency in Node/Typescript, NestJS, Python
• Experience with ETL pipelines
• Event-driven architectures and production-ready design
• Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation, YAML)
• Agile experience and small-iteration delivery
• Ability to set up services, including CI/CD and secure auth
• Experience publishing to analytical data stores and data durability

Responsibilities

• Champion design, development, and delivery of cloud-native orchestration services
• Define and evolve API contracts (REST, GraphQL) and schemas
• Contribute to architectural decisions around microservices and events
• Develop understanding of business processes supported by the orchestration layer
• Design data publishing workflows for operational and analytical needs
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, architects, analysts to translate needs
• Own full service lifecycle from development to deployment
• Champion observability with logging, monitoring, instrumentation (Datadog/CloudWatch)
• Lead design reviews, post-mortems, and document key decisions
• Proactively manage technical debt to enable platform scalability

Skills

Backend engineering

Cloud serverless

Node/Typescript

NestJS

Python

Event-driven

IaC

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

AWS/CDK

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Datadog

CloudWatch

AWS CDK

CI/CD tooling

Job description

WideNet Consulting Group is seeking a senior backend engineer to own cloud-native orchestration services, API contracts, and data publishing. You will design scalable architectures, work on REST/GraphQL interfaces, and ensure robust observability in production.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead design reviews, and drive CI/CD and secure infrastructure in a fully remote US environment. Competitive hourly pay and benefits.