[Hiring] Backend Software Engineer @Sapsol Technologies Inc

Role Description

This is a senior backend individual contributor role. The team seeks a technically strong backend engineer who can design solutions and provide hands-on support.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Design, build, test, deploy and document backend solutions on AWS, including the infrastructure and delivery pipelines that run them.
• Improve shared patterns and components and help the team move its systems forward.
• Report to the Senior Director and work in agile teams that build and maintain highly visible, critical applications.
• Design and tune software patterns, help teammates use them, and implement, test and document complex solutions.
• Maintain strong, professional relationships with customers and partner teams.
• Follow emerging technology trends and apply them to College Board's needs.
• Work with teams on practices, standards and guidelines.
• Use AI coding agents such as Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in everyday development.
• Turn business needs into lasting, high-quality solutions that support College Board's mission.

Responsibilities of the Role

• Design and build backend AWS solutions and the continuous delivery pipelines that ship them with quality.
• Write complex code, build and maintain AWS infrastructure with CDK, and automate testing and deployment.
• Design multi-tenant backend services with tenant data isolation.
• Own DevOps for the solutions you build, including deployments, monitoring and production support.
• Use AI coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) day to day to design, write, test and document code, and own the quality of what ships.
• Review AI-generated code with the same rigor as any other code.
• Own the quality of your work: set quality criteria, use reviews, and keep improving.
• Write design specs, unit tests and technical documentation, including documenting current-state systems.
• Develop and apply standards, patterns and processes that make our systems consistent, lower risk and improve efficiency.
• Define best practices for modeling, storing and moving data in cloud applications.
• Mentor teammates on best practices, cloud technologies and safe use of AI coding tools.
• Improve the team's processes, speed and quality using ideas from other teams and the industry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or MIS.
• 7+ years of experience in software systems and backend programming.
• 5+ years of backend development with Node.js and TypeScript on AWS.
• 4+ years hands-on with AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3 and DynamoDB.
• Strong hands-on experience building AWS infrastructure as code with AWS CDK.
• Strong experience with Git and associated methodologies.
• Working experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS applications, including tenant data isolation and tenant-scoped access control.
• Working knowledge of AWS serverless architecture, distributed architecture patterns, and AWS data services such as Athena and Glue.
• Hands-on experience using Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to build, test and ship production software.
• Good judgment on when to trust, check or reject AI-generated code, and awareness of risks such as prompt injection, data exposure and over-broad permissions.
• Experience mentoring other engineers on cloud technology.
• Strong problem solving and analytic skills.
• Able to handle multiple projects, work independently, and be a supportive Scrum team member.

Preferred Skills for the Role

• Familiarity with AWS networking and containers (for example VPC, ECS/Fargate).
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with event-driven design and API design.