Senior Full Stack Developer

Description:
The Cloud Applications Full-Stack AWS Developer will work closely with clients, digital leaders, solutions architects, and technical/ functional leads across digital teams and market segments to support client projects and provide solutions for growth efforts and capabilities build-out.

Location: Fully Remote

Pay Rate: $75-$85/hr. +

This is a contract-to-hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our W2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Responsibilities:
What You Will Do :

• Serve as a key member of the cloud team to support technical challenges/demos, building innovative solution prototypes using cloud architectures and software technologies.
• Solutions architecture and hands-on engineering/full-stack development of scalable and secure distributed systems using modern software technologies and programming, Cloud Native and microservices architecture, containerization, and API-First design patterns.
• Work collaboratively with user experience designers, platform engineers, product owners, solution architects, and business analysts, the Cloud Applications Full Stack Developer will design, build, test, and deploy high-value, operationally resilient software products on the AWS cloud platform that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements.
• Support repeatable cloud migrations including rehost (lift & shift), re-platform, and re-architect/re-factor on-premises systems/applications and datasets into a mix of multi and hybrid cloud platforms.

Experience Requirements:
What You Will Need :

• A bachelor's degree is required, or a Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
• Minimum of FIVE (5) years of prior relevant experience in full-stack application development
• Minimum of THREE (3) years of experience with cloud applications development to build /modernize applications and datasets on the AWS cloud
• Proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate, mentor, help, and support other team members, as needed, to solve complex technical problems.
• Proven ability to develop software products and solution prototypes, and use prototypes to validate technical solution strategies and communicate and explain the pros and cons of complex design alternatives.
• An in-depth understanding of Agile and Scaled Agile practices and principles, with experience. Must be an experienced Agile practitioner with proven ability to plan and implement software products with agility.
• Experience and proficiency in implementing frontend and backend services for cloud-native software products and solutions such as VueJS, JavaScript, Python, and Django
• Flask, Docker, EKS/Kubernetes, AWS Step Functions, Event Bridge, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, Elasticsearch, Caching frameworks, Redis, Memcached, the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Postgres, and/or the MongoDB NoSQL database service.
• Certification: AWS Certification Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services
• Solution architecture support for technical volumes of proposals and white papers for RFPs/RFIs and thought leadership initiatives.
• Familiarity with the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) and proven design patterns, like Model-View-Controller, is required, as is the ability to design and build cloud-based software products that conform to the AWS Well-Architected Framework design principles.
• Proficiency in delivering cloud-based software products using contemporary CI/CD pipeline tooling and the ability to continuously collaborate with development, operations, and security (DevSecOps) team members to deliver secure and operationally resilient software products and solutions.
• This is a hands-on cloud software developer/engineering position and requires the ability to proficiently and predictably build and deploy custom applications in the AWS cloud.
• Proven ability to design, build, test, and deploy software products and solutions on the AWS cloud platform.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to handle customer requirements and engineer solutions.

Education Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree is required
• Certification: AWS Certified Developer - Amazon Web Services