Senior Backend Cloud Engineer - AWS IoT & Serverless

Hunter; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Amazing corporate culture

FUN company events

Donation matching and volunteer awards

Profit sharing bonus

Job summary

Hunter is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud Services) to provide hands-on technical leadership for backend systems powering an AWS‑based IoT consumer application. The role owns cloud architecture, drives design and implementation of Lambda microservices, IaC, REST APIs, and device communication via AWS IoT Core.

The position combines hands‑on coding with mentoring and architectural guidance, ensuring scalable backend patterns, security, observability, and reliable production

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Minimum six years of professional software engineering experience, including four years designing and operating backend/cloud systems in production.
• Experience leading technical design for distributed, serverless, event‑driven, or IoT‑connected systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Designs, develops, deploys, and maintains Python‑based AWS Lambda microservices, RESTful APIs, and backend services.
• Provides player‑coach technical leadership to backend engineers, consultants, and cross‑functional contributors.
• Defines and documents architecture patterns, API contracts, data flows, service boundaries, schema standards, integration patterns.
• Leads cross‑functional technical alignment with firmware, mobile, QA, DevOps, Product, Security.

Skills

Python

AWS Lambda

Serverless architectures

Backend systems

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

AWS IoT Core

API Gateway

SQS & DynamoDB

Job description

Hunter is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud Services) to provide hands-on technical leadership for backend systems powering an AWS‑based IoT consumer application. The role owns cloud architecture, drives design and implementation of Lambda microservices, IaC, REST APIs, and device communication via AWS IoT Core.

The position combines hands‑on coding with mentoring and architectural guidance, ensuring scalable backend patterns, security, observability, and reliable production