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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 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.
** Open to REMOTE US-based candidates
How You Will Contribute

• 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.

What You Will Bring

• 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.
• Proficiency in programming languages, including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP.

• 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 NoSQL databases - able to design schemas, optimize queries, manage multi-environment deployments/backups/scaling, and with hands-on operational MongoDB 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, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, VPC/VPC endpoints.

• Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt).

• CI/CD with GitHub Actions and GitHub 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.

Standout Candidates Will Bring

• 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.

What We Offer

• 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.
• A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.
• Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents.
• Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive.

$140,000 - $180,000 a year
For this role, the anticipated base salary range is $140,000 - $ 180,000 per year. This role may also be eligible for additional bonus compensation designed to align total compensation with an employee's overall contribution to the organization.
Our Principles-Based Management™ (PBM) compensation philosophy is grounded in an individualized approach that rewards the long-term value each person creates for the organization. Compensation decisions are informed by a variety of factors, including relevant experience, capabilities, demonstrated skills, role responsibilities, and expected contribution. Consistent with this approach, base salary may vary within or outside of the anticipated range based on these considerations.
Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.
We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That is why we're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.