Overview
The Senior Software Engineer is a technical role responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based solutions and accelerators to support consulting and delivery projects or programs. This individual will work closely with architects and delivery teams to develop robust, secure, and scalable cloud solutions on AWS that drive value for clients and align with enterprise modernization objectives. The role focuses on hands-on technical tasks and solution engineering, with minimal delivery support responsibilities. This role may require occasional travel, such as a kickoff week for a long engagement.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Receive requirements from architects and translate solution patterns into high-quality, maintainable code.
- Follow best practices, write high quality code, and employ modern cloud architectures while writing new applications or modernizing existing applications.
- Develop, test, and deploy modular accelerator code, where applicable, to streamline project implementation and enhance client value.
- Integrate security, networking, and observability features into each component as specified by solution designs.
- Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback for continuous improvement.
- Apply flexible application logic and feature enhancements to base patterns from open-source or internal repositories.
- Rapidly learn and apply new patterns and technologies to meet evolving solution requirements.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in cloud development or related technical roles.
- 3+ years' experience working with AWS services, including compute, storage, networking, and security.
- Deep experience developing serverless applications using Node.js based Lambdas
- Deep experience with the AWS SDK for JavaScript
- Experience developing applications that use AWS API Gateway, Cognito authentication, Lambda, and S3
- Basic scripting skills in Python (the ability to write your own test and build scripts, and the ability to use the boto3 Python library to do basic AWS operations.)
- Experience with infrastructure as code using AWS CDK (TypeScript).
- Experience with source code management tools, preferably GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
- Hands-on experience with writing applications for multiple AWS compute environments, including server based (EC2), containers (ECS, EKS), and serverless (Lambda)
- Understanding of observability tools and implementing monitoring solutions in AWS environments.
- Strong knowledge of IAM integration and application security requirements in cloud environments.
- Experience with cloud native application architectures, including containers, microservices, service discovery, communication patterns, and security.
- A basic understanding of the AWS services that support modern cloud native applications, such as API gateways, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, and RDS.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering using generative AI (Bedrock)
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply them to real-world problems.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with architects and other technical team members.
- Associate level AWS certification (Developer certification preferred)
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 4+ years of experience in cloud development or solution delivery.
- Professional level AWS certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or specialty)
- Experience with additional AWS services such as CloudFront, Kendra, SNS, CloudWatch, etc.
- Experience implementing automation in production environments using Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, or cloud-native tools.
- Demonstrate experience with LLM prompt engineering
- Experience Testing and evaluating AI outputs systematically
- Familiarity with at least one virtualization technology such as VMware, OpenStack, or OpenShift Virtualization.
- Familiarity with enterprise AWS services such as Organizations, Control Tower, Transit Gateways, and Direct Connect.
- Demonstrated success in deploying secure, scalable, and highly available distributed systems.
***Posting Close Date: 10/21/2026***
We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification.
- US Salary range:$107,500-$161,300 Potential bonus up to: $15,000
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
- Medical, dental & vision
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Short and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
- https://www.teksystems.com/en/careers/benefits