Senior Software Engineer - Backend / Cloud Services

Hunter Agriculture•,

1d•$110,000 - $135,000•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Cloud Services) provides hands-on technical leadership for backend systems supporting Hunter’s AWS-based IoT consumer application. The role owns cloud architecture and leads the design, development, and implementation of AWS Lambda microservices, infrastructure as code, REST APIs for mobile and web applications, event-driven services, database models, telemetry pipelines, and AWS IoT Core device communication. It is a player-coach position, combining production-code contributions with mentoring, design reviews, consultant guidance, and development of scalable backend engineering practices. The position is remote for candidates residing within the United States. The employee must be willing to work Pacific Time business hours and travel to California two to three times per year. The role is expected to demonstrate behavior consistent with Hunter’s values of Customer Satisfaction, Innovation, Family, and Social Responsibility.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or a combination of education and relevant work experience.
At least six years of professional software engineering experience, including four years designing and operating backend/cloud systems in production.
Advanced proficiency designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining production backend services using Python.
Strong hands-on experience building AWS Lambda microservices, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, and serverless backend systems.
Hands-on experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools to define, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure across multiple environments.
Strong working knowledge of AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, AWS IoT Core, Device Shadows, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB, Aurora/RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, Secrets Manager, and related serverless technologies.
Experience designing scalable backend architectures, service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, database models, and integration patterns for production applications.
Strong understanding of AWS IoT Core concepts, including MQTT communication, Device Shadows, IoT Rules, telemetry ingestion, command processing, secure device connectivity, and fleet-scale device communication.
Strong database design skills across SQL and NoSQL systems, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, data modeling, and performance considerations.
Experience implementing secure backend systems, including authentication, authorization, OAuth/OIDC, JWT, IAM policies, least-privilege access, secrets management, data protection, and secure API design.
Ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs involving scalability, cost, performance, reliability, security, observability, maintainability, and delivery speed.
Experience with testing, CI/CD, code quality practices, automated deployment, structured logging, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and production support.
Ability to provide technical leadership as a player-coach through hands-on development, design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, implementation guidance, documentation, and reusable engineering patterns.
Ability to collaborate with firmware, mobile, QA, DevOps, Product, Security, consultants, and other cross-functional partners, and document architecture, APIs, data flows, technical decisions, operational expectations, and implementation plans.
Reside within the United States.
Willingness to work Pacific Time business hours and travel to California two to three times per year.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading technical design for distributed, serverless, event-driven, or IoT-connected systems.

Responsibilities

Lead technical design, implementation, and evolution of backend and cloud services for a scalable AWS-based IoT consumer application.
Own backend architecture across APIs, service domains, data models, event-driven workflows, telemetry pipelines, AWS IoT Core integrations, and cloud/device communication patterns.
Design, develop, deploy, and maintain Python-based AWS Lambda microservices, RESTful APIs, and backend services connecting mobile and web applications with cloud, device, scheduling, user, notification, reporting, and support functions.
Provide player-coach technical leadership through design and code reviews, mentoring, implementation guidance, and hands-on development for engineers, consultants, and cross-functional contributors.
Define and document architecture patterns, API contracts, data flows, service boundaries, schema standards, integration patterns, and operational expectations.
Lead technical alignment with firmware, mobile, QA, DevOps, Product, Security, and consultant teams to translate requirements into reliable backend, cloud, and device communication designs.
Design and implement 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.
Own backend service logic, data models, and automation workflows supporting irrigation scheduling, user preferences, environmental conditions, offline behavior, provisioning, notifications, firmware workflows, reporting, analytics, and AI/ML-supported recommendations.
Ensure backend systems are production-ready through monitoring, alerting, structured logging, testing, CI/CD integration, deployment safety, incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational runbooks.
Implement secure backend and cloud practices, including authentication, authorization, access controls, data protection, secrets management, least-privilege permissions, and secure device communication.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex production and integration issues while ensuring high availability, data integrity, and minimal customer impact.
Lead technical planning for backend and cloud initiatives, translating product requirements, integration needs, and architectural goals into implementation plans, estimates, sequencing, and delivery milestones.
Establish and improve backend engineering standards, including coding practices, service templates, Terraform module patterns, testing expectations, review processes, documentation practices, and reusable implementation patterns.
Guide long-term backend and cloud technical roadmap decisions, including platform scalability, service decomposition, technical debt reduction, cost optimization, multi-environment strategy, and support for future connected-device capabilities.
Review and validate technical deliverables from internal engineers, consultants, and vendor partners for alignment with Hunter architecture standards, security expectations, operational requirements, and product goals.
Focus on the voice of the customer and continuously improve products and services to deliver meaningful user value.