About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Full-Stack & Cloud Engineer (Contract - 6 months) based in United States. This role offers the opportunity to take end-to-end technical ownership of an internally developed web application and transform it into a secure, reliable, and maintainable production solution.
Responsibilities
- Take technical ownership of the existing web application, reviewing and understanding its AI-generated codebase and overall architecture
- Identify technical debt, security vulnerabilities, architectural risks, and areas for improvement, implementing targeted refactoring where appropriate
- Develop and maintain front-end, back-end, API, and database functionality while delivering new features based on evolving business requirements
- Establish and maintain coding, documentation, testing, code-review, and engineering standards
- Design and maintain secure, simple, and cost-effective hosting infrastructure with separate development/test and production environments
- Implement automated CI/CD pipelines with documented deployment, rollback, and release processes
- Manage application configuration, secrets, certificates, domains, backups, and recovery processes
- Implement monitoring, logging, error tracking, and alerting while tracking application reliability, performance, and infrastructure costs
- Implement SSO authentication, role-based access control, least-privilege permissions, and audit logging
- Conduct production-readiness assessments, prioritize remediation efforts, and collaborate with IT and security teams to meet organizational requirements
- Provide ongoing technical support, troubleshooting, maintenance, and enhancements across the application and infrastructure stack
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant ownership of production applications
- Strong full-stack development capabilities using modern web technologies
- Demonstrated experience inheriting, evaluating, and improving existing codebases
- Experience deploying and supporting applications in a major cloud or managed hosting environment
- Strong understanding of Git-based software development workflows
- Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments
- Working knowledge of relational databases, database security, migrations, and backup strategies
- Experience implementing authentication, authorization, SSO, OAuth, and/or OpenID Connect
- Strong understanding of application security fundamentals, secrets management, and least-privilege access
- Experience implementing production logging, monitoring, alerting, and error tracking
- Ability to independently troubleshoot production issues across application, cloud, and infrastructure layers
- Experience supporting internal enterprise applications is preferred
- Experience integrating applications with Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD, Okta, Google Workspace, or similar enterprise identity platforms is preferred
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi is preferred
- Strong ownership, problem-solving, communication, and technical judgment, with the ability to work independently in a hands-on environment
- Comfortable working with AI-assisted development tools while applying rigorous engineering, security, and maintainability standards
Conditions
- Hourly pay range of $50.00–$60.00 USD
- 6-month contract opportunity with significant technical ownership
- Opportunity to shape the production architecture, engineering standards, and deployment practices of an internally developed application
- Hands-on work spanning full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and production reliability
- Autonomy to take initiative, solve technical challenges, and make a meaningful impact
- Collaborative environment that encourages creativity, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Opportunity to work with AI-assisted development technologies while applying production-grade engineering practices
- Remote opportunity within the United States