Stand Together - Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer – Back-End Focused

• Contribute to architecture, design, and technical decision-making across the full application stack, including React and Next.js frontends, Node.js backend services, Contentful CMS integrations, and AWS cloud infrastructure. • Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing APIs that serve as the foundation for consumer-facing applications. • Oversee CMS content modeling and editorial workflow optimization within Contentful CMS. • Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and system reliability. • Ensure compliance with security, governance, and cloud infrastructure best practices within AWS, including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management. • 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 • Support sprint planning, technical estimation, roadmap development, and hiring efforts. • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. • 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with a clear back-end focus, including demonstrated architectural responsibility. • Experience mentoring software engineers. • Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills. • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP; strong Node.js backend experience, preferably with NestJS. • Experience designing and consuming APIs in distributed or microservices architectures. • Experience with JWT/OIDC authentication, including Auth0 or equivalent, and passport-jwt/JWKS patterns. • Proven experience with relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases — schema design, query optimization, multi-environment deployments, and operational MongoDB (replication, sharding, performance tuning) preferred. • Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS (task definitions, logging, ECR). • Working knowledge of core AWS services: Amplify, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, S3, EFS, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, and VPC. • Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt). • CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and GitHub OIDC for secure AWS deployments. • Observability and production operations experience: logs, metrics, alarms, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting. • Security best practices experience including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management. • Testing and quality discipline across unit, integration, and e2e layers (Jest), with strong linting and formatting standards. • Experience integrating headless CMS platforms with modern front-end frameworks. • Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect. • Standout Candidates Will Bring • Experience supervising, coaching, and developing engineers, including performance feedback, goal-setting, and day-to-day work prioritization. • Experience with Contentful CMS, Drupal, and WordPress in headless or hybrid configurations. • Familiarity with Turborepo, pnpm, monorepo patterns, Storybook, and design systems. • Zod/schema-first validation and OpenAPI generation tooling experience. • Hands-on experience with CloudPosse Terraform modules and terragrunt layout patterns. • Performance tuning for Node.js applications and MongoDB, including caching strategy design. • Experience with EFS for stateful containers and mounting/permission management. • Knowledge of Checkov, Terraform security scanning, and Terraform CI checks. • Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.