Position type: W2 contract
Location: Birmingham, AL (Remote)
Position Summary
The Senior Full Stack Engineer designs, builds, and supports high‑quality solutions for our member and agent portals. This hands‑on role requires strong expertise in modern frontend (React, Next.js ) and backend (Python, Go, Node.js ) technologies within a microservices and AWS‑based environment, with regular collaboration across onshore and offshore engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain application features across frontend (React, Next.js ) and backend services (Python, Go, node.js ).
- Participate in architectural design discussions and contribute to the technical direction of applications and services.
- Implement RESTful APIs and backend services following SOLID design principles and microservices best practices.
- Write clean, testable, maintainable code with appropriate unit, integration, and end‑to‑end tests.
- Own services through the full SDLC: requirements, design, coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support.
- Work within an Agile team with product owners, QA, and engineers to deliver incremental value.
- Collaborate closely with offshore team members, ensuring clear requirements, shared design understanding, and consistent coding standards.
- Coordinate handoffs and overlap with offshore teams to maintain velocity and manage dependencies.
- Mentor junior and mid‑level engineers (onshore and offshore) through code reviews, pairing, and coaching.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements for automated, reliable deployments to AWS.
- Work with AWS services (EKS, Lambda, API Gateway ) and Kubernetes/EKS for container orchestration.
- Participate in on‑call rotations to troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement fixes.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure, meeting internal and external customer needs.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and propose improvements to enhance capabilities and productivity.
- Collaborate with leadership to evolve technical standards, coding guidelines, and best practices.
- Explore opportunities to leverage Amazon Bedrock and prompt engineering for intelligent features (if applicable).
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience in full‑stack or backend‑focused roles.
- Hands‑on expertise in frontend: React, Next.js and backend: Python, Go, node.js .
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS ).
- Experience with AWS services: EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation/Terraform .
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and deployments to AWS.
- Solid understanding of REST principles and SOLID design principles.
- Experience collaborating with offshore or distributed teams across time zones.
- Excellent communication skills with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Strong problem‑solving abilities for complex distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare, pharmacy benefits, insurance, or regulated industries.
- Familiarity with Amazon Bedrock and prompt engineering or modern AI/ML platforms.
- Experience with observability tools (logging, metrics, tracing) for microservices.
- Background in performance tuning, resiliency patterns, and security best practices.
- Experience with mobile application development.
Core Competencies
- Problem Solving & Decision Making – strong analytical skills to evaluate options and make sound technical decisions.
- Accountability & Responsibility – ownership of deliverables ensuring quality and reliability.
- Communication – clear communication across teams, effective documentation, constructive feedback.
- Collaboration & Teamwork – effective collaboration within Agile teams across onshore and offshore locations.
- Customer Focus – build scalable, reliable, and secure solutions meeting customer needs.