Full Stack Engineer - AWS/AI

Client: Edtech

Title: Full Stack Engineer

Duration: Long Term

Location: 100% Remote

About the Opportunity   

·        As a Full Stack Engineer, you will contribute to the design, development, and reliability of enterprise analytics platforms that support mission-critical exam operations.

·        You will help build scalable data architectures, real-time telemetry pipelines, and high-performance reporting systems that operate reliably during peak exam delivery. 

·        You bring strong cloud full-stack engineering experience, with hands-on skills across backend services, data platforms, APIs, and front-end analytics applications.

·        You are comfortable working on cloud-native solutions end to end—from data ingestion and transformation to secure service layers and intuitive dashboard experiences. 

·        Junior to midlevel, but skilled engineer with experience in AWS event-driven serverless cloud environment; scripting using Python, JavaScript, and solid communication skills and naturally curious about technology. 

·        You will contribute to engineering excellence by following established architectural patterns, automation standards, and observability practices that improve system reliability and operational readiness.

·        This includes implementing robust automated testing strategies using tools to ensure quality, reliability, and seamless user experiences. 

·        You understand cloud software delivery, tools, and processes that empower efficient and resilient delivery that adheres to top-notch development practices.

·        You are technologically curious and seek out  opportunities to research emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products.

·        Your excellent communication and collaboration skills allow you to effectively articulate solutions to the development community, enabling all to succeed.

·        You are communicative, approachable, self-driven, and collaborative. 

In this role, you will:  

Software Solutioning & Design (10%) 

• Develop a strong understanding of customer business processes and exam operations 

• Collaborate with Lead Engineers and Solution Architects to evaluate feature requests, provide effort estimates, and support sprint planning 

• Participate in peer code and design reviews to ensure quality and consistency 

Design & Implementation (65%) 

• Contribute to the development and scalability of enterprise analytics platforms supporting mission-critical exam operations 

• Write code to implement, and maintain cloud-native data architectures, telemetry pipelines, APIs, and reporting systems 

• Build secure, scalable full-stack solutions across backend services, data platforms, and front-end analytics applications 

• Implement end-to-end solutions—from data ingestion and transformation to service layers and dashboards 

• Apply established architectural patterns, automation practices, and observability standards 

• Ensure systems meet requirements for scalability, data integrity, availability, and reliability 

• Integrate monitoring, telemetry, and operational readiness into system components 

• Develop and maintain automated end-to-end and UI testing frameworks using Playwright to ensure application quality and reliability. 

• Embed monitoring, telemetry, and operational readiness into all platform components 

Technical Contribution & Engineering Excellence (15%) 

• Contribute to solving complex technical problems and improving system design 

• Support and collaborate with team members to promote best practices in development, testing, and system design 

• Continuously improve skills across cloud, data, full-stack technologies, and test automation frameworks 

• Communicate technical approaches, tradeoffs, and solutions clearly to team members and stakeholders 

• Promote best practices in secure system design, automation, performance optimization, and resilient engineering 

Team Operations & Cross-Functional Collaboration (10%) 

• Partner with product, operations, and security teams to deliver aligned solutions 

• Support exam readiness through participation in testing, monitoring, and reliability efforts 

• Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement initiatives 

• Collaborate with QA and engineering teams to integrate automated into CI/CD pipelines 

• Foster a culture of ownership, documentation, accountability, and continuous improvement 

About You 

You have: 

• 3+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting scalable, cloud-native applications, data pipelines, analytics platforms 

• 1+ years of experience developing modern front-end applications using TypeScript and React. 

• Coding/scripting experience with Python, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js 

• Technical knowledge of Cloud Computing, DevOps, and Microservices 

• Strong knowledge and experience with distributed cloud infrastructure 
  within AWS 

• Experience with Backstage, LaunchDarkly, GitHub Actions is a plus 

• Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities 

• Experience working with AWS resources such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, 
  Step Functions, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, DynamoDB 

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with an ability to present 
  ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language 

• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment 

• Strong hands-on experience with backend technologies such as Node.js (preferably TypeScript) and Python, building APIs and data processing systems 

• Experience working with data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines for analytical and operational workloads 

• Experience in building responsive, secure, and high-performance user interfaces using TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS 

• Familiarity with asynchronous programming and event-driven architectures 

• Understanding of data modeling and transformation using AWS services such as Glue, Lambda, Redshift, Athena, and S3 

• Familiarity with ML lifecycle concepts and tools 

• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CLI 

• Experience with real-time stream processing and Complex Event Processing (CEP) using Apache Flink or similar technologies is a plus 

• Experience with automated testing frameworks, specifically Playwright for end-to-end and UI testing 

• Strong focus on scalability, data integrity, reliability, and quality engineering practices 

• Good problem-solving, analytical thinking, and communication skills 

Nice to Have: 

• Experience with monitoring and analytics tools such as Grafana, InfluxDB, or similar  

• Experience with cloud data stores and query engines such as Amazon Redshift, Athena, DynamoDB, Apache Iceberg and S3-based data lakes a plus 

• Understanding of data modeling and transformation using AWS services such as Glue, Lambda, Redshift, Athena, and S3 

• Understanding of data isolation, performance segmentation, and secure access in distributed systems 

• Familiarity with observability and operational strategies in distributed architectures 

• Experience integrating automated testing frameworks like Playwright into CI/CD pipelines