Senior Cloud-Native Backend Engineer (Remote US)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health & medical benefits

401K

Employee Assistance Program

Sick leave by state

Job summary

WideNet Consulting Group is seeking a senior backend engineer for a fully remote US role. You will design and deliver cloud-native orchestration services, define API and event contracts, and drive scalable microservice architectures.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business needs into robust software solutions and improve observability and deployment practices. The role emphasizes leadership in complex projects, hands-on cloud experience (AWS preferred), and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• 3+ years working with cloud serverless and orchestration services (AWS preferred).
• Strong proficiency in Node/Typescript, NestJS, Python.
• Experience building and integrating ETL pipelines.
• Solid grasp of event-driven architectures and production-ready design.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation).
• Experience in Agile environments and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to set up services including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure with secure authentication.
• Experience publishing to analytical data stores and handling schema evolution.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver cloud-native orchestration services.
• Define and evolve API contracts and event schemas for scalability and observability.
• Contribute to architectural decisions around microservices and events.
• Develop data publishing workflows for operational and analytical needs.
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and architects to translate business needs into software.
• Lead design reviews and contribute to post-mortems for engineering excellence.
• Manage technical debt and enable platform scalability through thoughtful design and domain ownership.
• Champion observability with logging, monitoring, and instrumentation.

Skills

Backend engineering

Cloud serverless

API design (REST/GraphQL)

Event-driven architecture

CI/CD pipelines

Mentoring & leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

TypeScript

Python

NestJS

Job description

WideNet Consulting Group is seeking a senior backend engineer for a fully remote US role. You will design and deliver cloud-native orchestration services, define API and event contracts, and drive scalable microservice architectures.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business needs into robust software solutions and improve observability and deployment practices. The role emphasizes leadership in complex projects, hands-on cloud experience (AWS preferred), and