Job Description
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Washington, DC, 20005
Salary/Payrate: $155-$165K, bonus and AWESOME benefits!!!
Work Environment: Hybrid, 2 days WFH
Term: Permanent
Bachelor’s degree required: Preferred
Referral Fee: AMS will pay $500 should the person you refer gets hired
Job Description:
Senior Software Developer who designs and delivers distributed systems. Drives architecture decisions, builds cloud-native applications, and improves legacy platforms. Focuses on performance, reliability, and automated testing.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, distributed applications across frontend and backend
- Translate product and business requirements into system architecture and technical designs
- Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs and service integrations
- Develop and optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, and database interactions
- Write production-grade code with strong unit and integration test coverage
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and release workflows
- Modernize legacy systems using AWS services and serverless architectures
- Conduct code reviews and enforce coding standards and secure design practices
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across application, database, and infrastructure layers
- Monitor system performance and drive improvements in latency, throughput, and reliability
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on software development experience
- Strong frontend expertise in JavaScript, React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Backend development experience with Python
- Deep experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync, DynamoDB, RDS, and CloudFormation
- Experience designing and building REST and GraphQL APIs
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and infrastructure as code
- Experience with automated testing frameworks, performance tuning, and highly available system design
An ideal candidate will have the following qualifications: clear communication across technical and business audiences, strong presentation skills, a self-driven approach to learning and knowledge sharing, data-driven problem solving, and experience mentoring junior team members.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience building and testing SOAP and REST APIs, including authentication and SSL/X.509
- Strong SQL skills, including PL/SQL and stored procedure development
- Experience with Oracle 11g/12c databases
- Familiarity with NoSQL or other non-relational databases