Senior Fullstack Engineer - FastAPI, AWS, Terraform

Eliassen Group; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group in Charlotte, NC seeks a backend-focused Fullstack Software Engineer to accelerate delivery within the Emerging Digital organization. The role supports the ACE workflow application, leveraging Temporal workflows and a modern AWS-based architecture, designing, building, and maintaining FastAPI services, and implementing Terraform-based infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is senior and autonomous, able to produce production-ready code and documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years AWS experience across Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, and VPC.
• 3+ years Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code expertise.
• 5+ years of Python development with 3+ years using FastAPI or similar async frameworks.
• Expertise with PostgreSQL, JSONB queries, async/await, REST API design, and SQLAlchemy ORM.
• Experience with git workflows, pull requests, and CI/CD.
• Ability to work independently and deliver production-ready code with strong communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust asynchronous FastAPI services for form generation, submission, and persistence.
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and SQL queries using SQLAlchemy ORM.
• Implement error handling, logging, and observability for reliability.
• Create and maintain pytest test suites with 80%+ coverage.
• Apply SOLID principles and clean code practices.
• Build AWS infrastructure via Terraform (Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, S3, CloudWatch).
• Establish IaC standards with Terraform Cloud and reusable modules.
• Collaborate using Git workflows and CI/CD; document architecture and services.

Skills

AWS

Python

FastAPI

REST API

Async programming

Git CI/CD

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

PostgreSQL

SQLAlchemy

S3

Lambda

API Gateway

Job description

Eliassen Group in Charlotte, NC seeks a backend-focused Fullstack Software Engineer to accelerate delivery within the Emerging Digital organization. The role supports the ACE workflow application, leveraging Temporal workflows and a modern AWS-based architecture, designing, building, and maintaining FastAPI services, and implementing Terraform-based infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is senior and autonomous, able to produce production-ready code and documentation.