Senior Software Engineer - Backend / Cloud Services
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum six years of professional software engineering experience, including four years designing and operating backend/cloud systems in production.
- Experience leading technical design for distributed, serverless, event-driven, or IoT-connected systems highly preferred.
Full description
About This Role:
The Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud Services) provides hands-on technical leadership for the backend systems that support Hunter’s AWS-based IoT consumer application. This role owns cloud architecture, leads the design, development, and implementation of AWS Lambda microservices, infrastructure as code, REST APIs consumed by mobile and web applications, event-driven services, database models, telemetry pipelines, and AWS IoT Core device communication. The position acts as a player-coach by contributing directly to production code while mentoring engineers, reviewing designs, guiding consultants, and helping establish scalable backend engineering practices.
Demonstrates behavior that is consistent with the company’s values of Customer Satisfaction, Innovation, Family, and Social Responsibility.
*This is a remote position for someone who resides within the United States. Must be willing to work Pacific Time business hours and travel to California 2-3 times per year.*Essential Job Functions/Tasks:
- Leads the technical design, implementation, and evolution of backend and cloud services for a scalable AWS-based IoT consumer application.
- Owns backend architecture across APIs, service domains, data models, event-driven workflows, telemetry pipelines, AWS IoT Core integrations, and cloud/device communication patterns.
- Designs, develops, deploys, and maintains Python-based AWS Lambda microservices, RESTful APIs, and backend services that connect mobile and web applications to cloud, device, scheduling, user, notification, reporting, and support functions.
- Provides player-coach technical leadership to backend engineers, consultants, and cross-functional contributors through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, implementation guidance, and hands-on development.
- Defines and documents architecture patterns, API contracts, data flows, service boundaries, schema standards, integration patterns, and operational expectations.
- Leads cross-functional technical alignment with firmware, mobile, QA, DevOps, Product, Security, and consultant teams to translate requirements into reliable backend, cloud, and device communication designs.
- Designs and implements scalable AWS IoT Core and telemetry architectures, including secure device connectivity, MQTT communication, Device Shadows, command processing, device synchronization, event ingestion, and fleet-scale operational patterns.
- Owns backend service logic, data models, and automation workflows that support irrigation scheduling, user preferences, environmental conditions, offline behavior, provisioning, notifications, firmware workflows, reporting, analytics, and AI/ML-supported recommendations.