Senor Staff Engineer Software - Backend

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We welcome individual candidates and Corp-to-Corp (CTC) resume submissions.

6-month contract with potential of full-time conversion

Onsite, Charlotte, NC

We are seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer – Backend for our direct client. The position is onsite in Charlotte, NC.

Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end architectural design for highly complex systems across the Cards domain, ensuring architectures are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned to enterprise standards.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert (SME) for full-stack Cards applications—including backend services, middleware, APIs, and integrations—guiding teams on domain concepts, system behavior, and best practices.
• Perform complex hands-on engineering work, taking ownership of the most challenging coding assignments using technologies such as Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, GraphQL, RESTful APIs, and data pipelines.
• Lead technical design and solutioning sessions, facilitating collaboration across engineering teams, architects, product owners, and design partners to define robust technical solutions.
• Elevate code quality and engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality delivery through strong testing practices, automation, code reviews, and adherence to modern engineering standards.
• Design and implement automation strategies including test automation, CI/CD improvements, and observability enhancements to improve reliability and developer productivity.
• Involves progressively more experience and accountability for influencing important technical decisions and supporting their implementation.

Requirements

• At least 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering backend applications with GraphQL, Node.JS, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Restful APIs, Data Pipelines and related backend frameworks.
• Proficiency with Domain Driven Design and Data Modeling.
• Experience managing/maintaining distributed systems.
• Conversant in many technologies and languages and able to learn new technologies quickly.
• Proactively applies industry leading technology trends, best practices, design principles and patterns, and methods including Agile software development, iterative delivery, and cloud computing.
• Experience and proficiency with cloud platforms and patterns, preferably AWS.
• Use critical thinking to reach conclusions and analytical thinking for problem solving in support of achieving desired outcomes.
• Applies enthusiasm for continuous learning to improve results and shares with others.

We look forward to receiving your resume in PDF format!