[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Hunter Agriculture

Role Description

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.

Note: 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or a combination of education and relevant work experience.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Demonstrated 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.
• Demonstrated 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 effectively with firmware, mobile, QA, DevOps, Product, Security, consultants, and other cross-functional partners.

Benefits

• Amazing corporate culture - we walk the walk when it comes to our values!
• FUN company events!
• Company donation matching and volunteer rewards
• Career development opportunities and profit sharing bonus

Company Description

Hunter is a global leader in the irrigation, outdoor lighting, dispensing technology, and custom manufacturing industries. Driving our continued success is the combined energy and talents of the nearly 4,000 people on our team. Together, we create a diverse array of products that can be seen all over the world, from residential landscapes to national landmarks, stadiums, parks, hotels, and municipal buildings.

Hunter Industries and its Family of Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic.

The salary for this opportunity ranges from $110,000 to $135,000. The Company complies with all federal/local/state regulations in regard to pay. The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Compensation offered to the successful candidate will be determined by qualifications, prior experience, other job-related factors, and geographic location.