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Staff Back End Engineer Aspira | Phoenix Engineering About Aspira

For forty years, Aspira has been the market-leading software and services provider for the great outdoors, primarily for state and provincial parks and wildlife agencies. As part of our constant evolution, we're executing an aggressive multi-year transformation to accelerate revenue growth, optimize cost structures, and maximize shareholder value while expanding our market position.

The leadership team has reset the company’s core values to drive our transformation: Customer Obsession, Forward Momentum, One Team One Dream, Radical Transparency, Win with Integrity, and Excellence guide everything we do.

The Ideal Candidate

Aspira’s Staff Back End Software Engineer is a technical leader who drives the design, development, and optimization of critical software systems. This role involves coding, architectural design, and mentoring junior engineers while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and meet business goals. The engineer works closely with cross-functional teams to define the technical direction and ensure successful project outcomes. They are responsible for architecting and building scalable serverless applications on AWS, utilizing services such as CloudFront, S3, Lambdas, AppSync, EventBridge, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB. The role requires a deep understanding of serverless architecture and AWS services to ensure seamless product development. As a key contributor, the engineer’s leadership guides both technical execution and team growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain RESTful and GraphQL APIs to optimize back-end systems for high performance under varying load conditions.

• Implement robust security measures to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA.

• Optimize back-end infrastructure and services with load balancing, database optimization, and caching strategies for high availability and performance.

• Define and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployment, reducing time to production.

• Lead design, development, and deployment of software solutions, ensuring alignment with technical and business requirements.

• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineers to define the technical roadmap and ensure long-term vision alignment.

• Mentor engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

• Lead technical discussions and decision-making, providing expertise on architecture, design patterns, and best practices.

• Conduct code reviews to ensure maintainable, scalable code and adherence to coding standards.

• Stay informed of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to improve software offerings and development processes.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions with a strong foundation in software architecture and design principles.

• Expertise in multiple programming languages, including TypeScript and Go, with a focus on cloud-native and serverless applications.

• Strong problem-solving abilities and experience in analyzing complex technical challenges and developing innovative solutions.

• Exceptional leadership and mentoring skills, guiding teams to reach their full potential and making key architectural decisions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, effectively articulating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proficiency in cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), with deep knowledge of AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.

• Experience with serverless frameworks like SST and AWS CDK for infrastructure as code, ensuring scalable, maintainable solutions.

• Strong understanding of software security principles, including secure coding practices and leading security-focused initiatives.

• Expertise in designing event-driven systems and working with event-driven architectures using AWS services like EventBridge and Step Functions.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and contributions to open-source projects or technical blogs/publications.

Desired Hardware and Software Competencies

• Proficient in software development tools (IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse) and version control systems like Git for managing distributed codebases.

• Expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) for deploying and managing scalable microservices.

• Strong experience with database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, and Redis, with skills in designing and optimizing complex data structures.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI) and cloud infrastructure (AWS services like CloudFront, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB), including monitoring and logging with CloudWatch.

Desired Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, with a Master’s preferred, and 7+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years in senior or staff engineering roles.

• Proven experience leading or contributing to 5+ major software projects that improved system performance, reliability, or user satisfaction.

• 3+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms, including deploying and managing cloud-based applications.

• 3+ years working with Agile or Scrum methodologies, successfully driving iterative development and delivering high-quality software.