Sr. Software Engineer (Typescript, AWS Lambda, IAM)

Job Title: Sr. Software Engineer (Typescript, AWS Lambda, IAM)

Location: Denver, CO

Duration: Long-term

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement back-end APIs on AWS Lambda in TypeScript
• Write and maintain Terraform (IaC) configurations for deploying infrastructure to multiple environments
• Write and maintain unit and functional tests using Postman and other tools
• Work with team of engineers and third-party tooling to develop Client's tooling for Identity Access Management (IAM)
• Implement SRE best practices including observability, monitoring, alarming and writing runbooks
• Communicate across teams to facilitate development toward a shared vision of the final product
• Build services that are integration points for mission-critical third-party vendors
• Act as a mentor, architect and consultant for numerous teams developing independent software projects
• Take ownership of releasing new features that delight our customers and be empowered to collaborate so your team can excel
• Deliver at-scale features that are flexible, cost-effective, maintainable and long-lasting
• Collaborate with the Cloud DevOps team to establish best practices for sustainably operating high-scale distributed systems
• Optimize AWS resource usage (IAM, ElasticBeanstalk, Fargate, Cloud Formation, SQS, SNS,
• ECR, EC2, ECS, Lambda, Parameter Store, Secrets, RDS, Redis, S3, DynamoDB, IoT Core, API Gateway, CloudFront and Route 53)

Skills Needed:

• BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, including professional development in TypeScript
• experience with object-oriented design and algorithms
• highly skilled in at least one modern programming language. (Ex. Node.js, TypeScript, Golang, Python or Java)
• significant experience in AWS technologies and infrastructure, who hold current AWS certifications are particularly well qualified for this position
• experience with Identity Access Management (IAM) tooling and OAuth best practices (Auth0, PingIdentity, Cognito, etc.)
• experience mentoring other developers
• knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, test-driven development, continuous deployments and agile methodologies
• outstanding communication, organizational and problem-solving skills
• exposure to operating large-scale distributed systems, including security, defining and monitoring service metrics, infrastructure management and scaling and DevOps best practices
• makes user experience brilliant, and you have a passion for developing innovative solutions
• experienced with cross-platform development, and you have a deep understanding of the software development life cycle
• confident in your abilities to command and understand application build pipelines and share those with your team in a way they can understand
• experienced in system design and development, but you are also a powerful leader, which means you stay accountable for your successes and shortcomings