Senior Software Engineer - Middleware & Integration

Team: Enterprise IT

Location: Arlington, VA

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Salary:

How You Will Contribute

• Contribute to architecture, design, and technical decision-making for our Node.js backend services, Contentful CMS integrations, and AWS cloud infrastructure. 

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing APIs. 

• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and system reliability. 

• Ensure compliance with security, governance, and cloud infrastructure best practices within AWS. 

• 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. 

What You Will Bring

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field. 
7+ years of software engineering experience including architecture. 
Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills. 
Proficiency in programming languages, including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP.
Strong Node.js backend experience—preferably NestJS. 
Experience designing and consuming APIs and distributed or microservices-based architectures. 
Experience with JWT / OIDC authentication (Auth0 or equivalent), passport-jwt / JWKS patterns. 
Proven experience with both relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases — able to design schemas, optimize queries, manage multi-environment deployments/backups/scaling, and with hands-on operational MongoDB experience (replication, sharding, performance tuning) preferred. 
Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS (task definitions, logging, ECR). 
AWS core services: Amplify, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, S3, EFS, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, VPC/VPC endpoints. 
Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt). 
CI/CD with GitHub Actions and GitHub OIDC for secure AWS deployments. 
Observability and ops experience with logs/metrics/alarms, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting. 
Experience with security best practices, including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management. 
Testing and quality experience, including unit/integration (Jest), e2e, linting/formatting. 
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 integrating with Contentful CMS, Drupal and WordPress platforms. 

• Zod / schema-first validation and OpenAPI generation tooling experience. 

• Hands-on with CloudPosse Terraform modules and terragrunt layout patterns. 

• Performance tuning for Node.js apps and MongoDB, plus caching strategies. 

• Experience with EFS for stateful containers and mounting/permission management. 

• Knowledge of Checkov / Terraform security scanning and Terraform CI checks. 

What We Offer

• Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.
• A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.
• Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents.
• Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive.