Senior Cloud Backend Engineer - AWS & Terraform (Charlotte)

Gravity IT Resources; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Gravity IT Resources in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with strong AWS, Terraform, and backend development expertise for a 12-month contract. Approximately 80% of the work is backend, focusing on AWS serverless architecture, infrastructure automation, and API development, with the remaining 20% involving Angular frontend development.

You’ll work on enterprise solutions across Supply Chain, HR, and Security, building scalable cloud-native solutions and taking

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years backend development building APIs, microservices, or serverless applications.
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS development experience.
• 3+ years of Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience.
• 2+ years of Angular and TypeScript development.
• 2+ years of Python development.
• Must currently reside in the Charlotte, NC area.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop cloud-native applications using AWS serverless technologies.
• Build REST APIs and backend services using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Integrate AWS services including S3, DynamoDB, RDS/PostgreSQL, and CloudWatch.
• Work with AWS networking and infrastructure components such as VPCs, Security Groups, CloudFront, and Load Balancers.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployments, and monitoring.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Frontend development using Angular 19 and TypeScript.
• Angular NgRx for frontend state management.

Skills

Backend development

AWS

Terraform

Angular

TypeScript

Python

REST APIs

CI/CD

Git

Cloud architecture

Tools

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

S3

DynamoDB

RDS/PostgreSQL

CloudWatch

Job description

Gravity IT Resources in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with strong AWS, Terraform, and backend development expertise for a 12-month contract. Approximately 80% of the work is backend, focusing on AWS serverless architecture, infrastructure automation, and API development, with the remaining 20% involving Angular frontend development.

You’ll work on enterprise solutions across Supply Chain, HR, and Security, building scalable cloud-native solutions and taking