Senior Full Stack AWS Engineer - Remote

The Platform Leader at Alight Solutions is responsible for driving the platform vision forward, including building, maintaining, enhancing, and decommissioning applications and services throughout their lifecycle.

Location: Remote

Salary: $130k–$165k

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement serverless, event-driven, and containerized cloud applications using AWS services (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, S3, ECS/EKS).
• Build robust, secure, and high-performance cloud-native solutions, leveraging both front-end (Angular, TypeScript) and back-end (Node.js, Java, RESTful APIs) technologies.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, or full-stack application development
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., Bedrock, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift, Glue, ECS/EKS, IAM, S3, API Gateway, RDS, CloudFormation, EC2, Fargate, CloudWatch)
• Proficiency in Python, Java, TypeScript/Node.js, or similar languages for serverless and full-stack development
• Strong grasp of context engineering, prompt orchestration, and LLM application design
• Proven success leading cross-functional engineering teams and innovating at the intersection of technology and business
• Commitment to accessibility and inclusive design principles
• Experience integrating agent-based architectures and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on AWS
• Understanding of application-level security, compliance, and cost optimization best practices in the cloud
• Experience with internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and observability frameworks
• Prior contributions to AI/ML product teams or open-source cloud frameworks
• Skilled in serverless and containerized application design and deployment using AWS SAM, Docker, and ECS
• Experience in implementing secure authentication and authorization using AWS Cognito, OAuth2.0, and JWT
• Strong proficiency in database management with Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and Aurora, including SQL and NoSQL modeling
• Good working knowledge of testing frameworks and backend testing tools like JUnit
• Strong exposure to Agile and Waterfall methodologies, with a focus on continuous delivery and iterative development
• Adept in version control and configuration management tools including GitHub, Bitbucket, and AWS CodeCommit

Benefits

• health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One
• wellbeing programs
• retirement plans with contribution matching
• generous time off
• parental leave
• continuing education
• career growth opportunities

Additional Information

• Originally posted on Himalayas