Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Washington, DC, 20005
Salary/Payrate: $155-$165K, bonus and AWESOME benefits!!!
Work Environment: Hybrid, 2 days WFH
Term: Permanent
Preferred Bachelor's degree required: Preferred
Referral Fee: AMS will pay $500 if the person you refer gets hired
Job Description
Senior Software Developer who designs and delivers distributed systems. Drives architecture decisions, builds cloud‑native applications, and improves legacy platforms. Focuses on performance, reliability, and automated testing.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, distributed applications across frontend and backend
- Translate product and business requirements into system architecture and technical designs
- Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs and service integrations
- Develop and optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, and database interactions
- Write production‑grade code with strong unit and integration test coverage
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and release workflows
- Modernize legacy systems using AWS services and serverless architectures
- Conduct code reviews and enforce coding standards and secure design practices
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across application, database, and infrastructure layers
- Monitor system performance and drive improvements in latency, throughput, and reliability
Requirements
- 7 years of hands‑on software development experience
- Strong frontend expertise in JavaScript, React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Backend development experience with Python
- Deep experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync, DynamoDB, RDS, and CloudFormation
- Experience designing and building REST and GraphQL APIs
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git‑based workflows, and infrastructure as code
- Experience with automated testing frameworks, performance tuning, and highly available system design
Qualifications
Clear communication across technical and business audiences, strong presentation skills, a self‑driven approach to learning and knowledge sharing, data‑driven problem solving, and experience mentoring junior team members.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience building and testing SOAP and REST APIs, including authentication and SSL/X.509
- Strong SQL skills, including PL/SQL and stored procedure development
- Experience with Oracle 11g/12c databases
- Familiarity with NoSQL or other non‑relational databases