Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer – Back-End Focused

Stand Together

. Contribute to architecture, design, and technical decision-making across the full application stack, including React and Next.js frontends, Node.js backend services, Contentful CMS integrations, and AWS cloud infrastructure.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerJavaScriptJestMicroservicesMongoDBNext.jsNode.jsNoSQLPHPPythonRayReactSQLTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute to architecture, design, and technical decision-making across the full application stack, including React and Next.js frontends, Node.js backend services, Contentful CMS integrations, and AWS cloud infrastructure.
Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing APIs that serve as the foundation for consumer-facing applications.
Oversee CMS content modeling and editorial workflow optimization within Contentful CMS.
Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and system reliability.
Ensure compliance with security, governance, and cloud infrastructure best practices within AWS, including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management.
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
Support sprint planning, technical estimation, roadmap development, and hiring efforts.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with a clear back-end focus, including demonstrated architectural responsibility.
Experience mentoring software engineers.
Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills.
Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP; strong Node.js backend experience, preferably with NestJS.
Experience designing and consuming APIs in distributed or microservices architectures.
Experience with JWT/OIDC authentication, including Auth0 or equivalent, and passport-jwt/JWKS patterns.
Proven experience with relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases — schema design, query optimization, multi-environment deployments, and operational MongoDB (replication, sharding, performance tuning) preferred.
Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS (task definitions, logging, ECR).
Working knowledge of core AWS services: Amplify, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, S3, EFS, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, and VPC.
Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt).
CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and GitHub OIDC for secure AWS deployments.
Observability and production operations experience: logs, metrics, alarms, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting.
Security best practices experience including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management.
Testing and quality discipline across unit, integration, and e2e layers (Jest), with strong linting and formatting standards.
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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting
Flexible time off
Comprehensive health and dental plans
Wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonPHPNode.jsAPI DesignRelational DatabasesNoSQL DatabasesDockerTerraform

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationCross-Functional Partnership