Senior Backend & Cloud Engineer - IoT on AWS

Hunter Industries; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Annual bonuses

Job summary

Hunter Industries seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud) to lead the design, development and operation of AWS‑based backend services for an IoT consumer application. You will write production Python, define API contracts, and mentor engineers while collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

You will own telemetry pipelines, device communication patterns, CI/CD, security practices, and scalable architectures across data stores and services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years backend/cloud system design/operation.
• Experience leading technical design for distributed, serverless, event‑driven, or IoT‑connected systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend/cloud design for scalable AWS‑based IoT consumer app.
• Own backend architecture: APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, telemetry, AWS IoT Core integration.

Skills

Python

AWS Lambda

REST APIs

Event-driven

Terraform

AWS IoT Core

Device Shadows

SQL & NoSQL

Security best practices

CI/CD

Monitoring & Logging

Mentoring

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Hunter Industries seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud) to lead the design, development and operation of AWS‑based backend services for an IoT consumer application. You will write production Python, define API contracts, and mentor engineers while collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

You will own telemetry pipelines, device communication patterns, CI/CD, security practices, and scalable architectures across data stores and services.