Senior Software Engineer - Middleware & Integration

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.

Stand Together is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership on our high-visibility, consumer-facing web applications. This role is responsible for the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable single-page applications built on AWS.

The Senior Software Engineer will combine hands‑on development with architectural oversight, ensuring the reliability, performance, and long‑term scalability of our digital ecosystem while mentoring engineers and partnering cross‑functionally to deliver high‑impact solutions.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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 No
  
  SQL databases—able to design schemas, optimize queries, manage multi‑environment deployments/backups/scaling, and with hands‑on operational Mongo
  
  DB 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, Cloud Watch, X‑Ray, IAM, VPC/VPC endpoints.
• Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud‑native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt).
• CI/CD with Git Hub Actions and Git Hub 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.

• Experience integrating with Contentful CMS, Drupal, and Word Press platforms.
• Zod / schema‑first validation and OpenAPI generation tooling experience.
• Hands‑on with Cloud Posse Terraform modules and terragrunt layout patterns.
• Performance tuning for Node.js apps and Mongo
  
  DB, plus caching strategies.
• Experience with EFS for stateful containers and mounting/permission management.
• Knowledge of Checkov/Terraform security scanning and Terraform CI checks.

• 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.
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