Senior Software Engineer, Middleware/Integrations (Remote)

Stand Together

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Flexible time off

Health and dental plans

Wellness and mental health support

Job summary

Stand Together is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Middleware & Integrations to lead architecture and delivery for scalable web applications built on AWS. Candidate will mentor engineers, design APIs, and ensure security and reliability across a cloud-native stack.

The role emphasizes hands-on development with architectural oversight, collaborating with product and design teams and enabling high-impact solutions for a national audience. Remote US-based candidates are welcome.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
7+ years of software engineering experience including architecture.
Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills.
Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP.
Strong Node.js backend experience—NestJS preferred.
Experience designing and consuming APIs and distributed or microservices-based architectures.
Experience with JWT/OIDC authentication (Auth0 or equivalent), passport-jwt/JWKS patterns.
Proven experience with both relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases — able to design schemas, optimize queries, manage multi-environment deployments/backups/scaling, and with hands-on operational MongoDB experience preferred.
Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS(task definitions, logging, ECR).
AWS core services: Amplify, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, S3, EFS, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, VPC/VPC endpoints.
Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt).
CI/CD with GitHub Actions and GitHub OIDC for secure AWS deployments.
Observability and ops experience with logs/metrics/alarms, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting.
Experience with security best practices, including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management.
Testing and quality experience, including unit/integration (Jest), e2e, linting/formatting.
Experience integrating headless CMS platforms with modern front-end frameworks.
Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together’s vision and principled approach to solving problems.

Responsibilities

Contribute to architecture, design, and technical decision-making for Node.js backend services, Contentful CMS integrations, and AWS cloud infrastructure.
Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing APIs.
Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and system reliability.
Ensure compliance with security, governance, and cloud infrastructure best practices within AWS.
Establish and enforce engineering standards, best practices, and scalable design patterns.
Provide technical mentorship, supervision, and performance guidance to engineers.
Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.