Senior Software Engineer - Middleware & Integration

Stand Together is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Middleware & Integrations 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.

• 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.