Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Cloud Services

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $110k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Hunter Industries

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1981

🏗️ Construction

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Construction • Healthcare • Logistics

Hunter Industries is a global manufacturer of irrigation, lighting, and dispensing products and systems for residential, commercial, golf, and agricultural customers. The company designs and produces irrigation hardware (rotors, nozzles, valves, sensors), controllers and water-management software (including internet-connected controllers), architectural and landscape lighting, and custom manufacturing solutions. Hunter emphasizes water conservation, professional support for contractors/designers/distributors, and integrated hardware-plus-software solutions for efficient outdoor water and lighting management.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical design, implementation, and evolution of backend and cloud services for Hunter’s AWS-based IoT consumer application • Own backend architecture across APIs, service domains, data models, event-driven workflows, telemetry pipelines, AWS IoT Core integrations, and cloud/device communication patterns • Design, develop, deploy, and maintain Python-based AWS Lambda microservices, RESTful APIs, and backend services • Provide player-coach technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, implementation guidance, and hands-on development • Define and document architecture patterns, API contracts, data flows, service boundaries, schema standards, integration patterns, and operational expectations • Lead technical alignment with firmware, mobile, QA, DevOps, Product, Security, and consultant teams • Design and implement AWS IoT Core and telemetry architectures, including secure device connectivity, MQTT communication, Device Shadows, command processing, synchronization, event ingestion, and fleet-scale operations • Own service logic, data models, and automation workflows supporting irrigation scheduling, user preferences, environmental conditions, offline behavior, provisioning, notifications, firmware workflows, reporting, analytics, and AI/ML-supported recommendations • Ensure production readiness through monitoring, alerting, structured logging, testing, CI/CD integration, deployment safety, incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational runbooks • Implement secure backend and cloud practices, troubleshoot production and integration issues, and ensure high availability and data integrity • Lead technical planning, estimates, sequencing, and delivery milestones for backend and cloud initiatives • Establish backend engineering standards, including coding practices, service templates, Terraform patterns, testing expectations, review processes, documentation, and reusable implementation patterns • Guide the long-term backend and cloud technical roadmap, including scalability, service decomposition, technical debt, cost optimization, multi-environment strategy, and future connected-device capabilities • Review and validate deliverables from internal engineers, consultants, and vendor partners

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • 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 • Strong working knowledge of AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, AWS IoT Core, Device Shadows, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB, Aurora/RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, and Secrets Manager • Experience designing scalable backend architectures, service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, database models, and integration patterns • 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 • 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 with firmware, mobile, QA, DevOps, Product, Security, consultants, and other cross-functional partners • Must reside within the United States • Must be willing to work Pacific Time business hours and travel to California 2–3 times per year

🏖️ Benefits

• FUN company events • Company donation matching and volunteer rewards • Career development opportunities • Profit sharing bonus

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