Genius Match

Our client is looking for an experienced Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale modern backend systems and cloud-native applications supporting headless and frontend applications.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining backend engineering, architecture, DevOps, and team leadership. You will lead a Scrum team throughout the software development lifecycle while contributing directly to backend development, cloud architecture, database and search solutions, and engineering best practices.

The role reports to the Chief Architect.

Responsibilities

Backend Engineering & Architecture

• Lead a Scrum team throughout the SDLC, ensuring project goals are delivered within scope and timelines.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using TypeScript, Node.js, and Python.
• Build cloud-native and serverless applications primarily on AWS and Serverless Framework.
• Participate in architectural design and technical strategy for modern backend and service workflows.
• Apply distributed systems, event-driven, API-first, and microservices patterns.
• Lead code reviews and promote maintainable engineering practices.

Database & Search

• Design and optimize MongoDB data models, queries, indexes, and aggregation pipelines.
• Improve database performance, scalability, and cost efficiency in high-volume environments.
• Implement advanced search solutions using Elasticsearch, Atlas Search, Lucene-based engines, and/or vector search.
• Support both conventional and AI-based search workflows.

AWS & Infrastructure

• Design and operate cloud-native solutions using AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, Fargate, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, S3, and VPC.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Contribute to infrastructure initiatives focused on scalability, reliability, security, performance, cost optimization, and disaster recovery.
• Define and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated testing and deployment.

Reliability & Security

• Monitor and improve the reliability, observability, and performance of distributed systems across multiple environments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system and production issues.
• Ensure security and compliance best practices are followed across internal and external services.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional backend engineering experience building complex, production-grade systems.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Node.js, TypeScript, and Python.
• Extensive experience with MongoDB, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, aggregation pipelines, and performance tuning.
• Strong experience designing and operating serverless and cloud-native architectures on AWS.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Atlas Search, Lucene-based engines, and/or vector search.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, API-first design, and microservices.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, observability, performance, security, and scalability.
• Experience leading code reviews and promoting engineering best practices.
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead and collaborate with engineering teams.

Nice to Have

• AWS or related cloud certification(s).
• Experience with AI-based search or vector search technologies.
• Experience working with enterprise SaaS products and distributed systems.
• Experience leading Scrum or engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience.

What We Offer

• Competitive market salary.
• Fully remote work.
• Opportunity to design and scale modern backend and cloud-native systems.
• Hands-on ownership of backend architecture and technical direction.
• Work with modern AWS, serverless, database, and search technologies.
• Collaboration with experienced international engineering teams.
• Opportunity to lead a technical team while remaining hands-on.

Our prospect is looking for a Network Architect to help them with leading their design and delivery of secure, scalable network and security solutions for their  clients. This role owns complex project architecture and escalation, strengthens team capability through mentorship, and helps clients maintain reliable, high-performing network environments.

What You’ll Own

• Architect, design, and deploy secure, functional network solutions across switching, routing, wireless, firewalls, NAC, SD-WAN, load balancing, and monitoring environments.
• Lead medium-to-large network and security projects from technical planning through implementation and delivery, including greenfield deployments and migrations.
• Provide expert escalation support for complex networking, firewall, and load balancer issues; investigate root causes and recommend durable resolutions.
• Govern and enforce network and security standards, and review and approve technical designs and documentation.
• Create, oversee, and test security controls, including network access and intrusion-prevention measures and 802.1X implementations.
• Assess network performance, capacity, and scalability; identify risks and recommend improvements to reliability and service quality.
• Mentor network engineering and security team members, provide technical guidance, and support the development of less senior engineers.
• Communicate project status, technical findings, and recommendations clearly to clients, including non-technical stakeholders.
  
   

Requirements

• Required certification: CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure
• 10+ years of experience in senior network engineering, including hands-on network architecture, design, implementation, and administration.
• Demonstrated experience leading medium-to-large networking and security projects.
• Strong knowledge of core infrastructure services: switching (VLANs, STP, LACP, MLAG); routing (static, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP); wireless (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax, captive portals, and channel management); DHCP; DNS; 802.1X; LLDP; SNMP; syslog; and ACLs.
• Ability to deploy and maintain firewalls and help keep networks secure, including designing and validating network access and intrusion-prevention controls.
• Proficiency in a general-purpose scripting language such as PowerShell or Python.
• Strong analytical troubleshooting skills, including the ability to isolate where a problem originates, resolve it, and recommend ways to prevent recurrence.
• Ability to provide technical mentorship and escalation support to less senior network engineering and security team members.

Our client is looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer with strong Python and modern front-end development experience to build modern web applications with an AI-forward approach. The role focuses on developing responsive web applications and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), using AI-powered engineering tools to improve development efficiency and integrating AI capabilities into products where they add real value.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience using AI tools, modern front-end frameworks, and Python. Full-stack engineers are preferred, though candidates with deep expertise in AI-driven engineering, Python, or front-end development will also be considered.
 

What You'll Do

• Build modern web applications and Progressive Web Apps using component-based frameworks and responsive design.
• Use AI coding tools and agents daily to accelerate development, testing, code review, and implementation.
• Integrate AI capabilities, including LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agent workflows, into products.
• Build and extend Python services and APIs, translating backend contracts into maintainable client-side models.
• Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver reliable applications and establish engineering standards.
   

What We're Looking For

• Strong software engineering and problem-solving skills.
  At least 9 years of experience;
• An AI-forward mindset, with practical experience using AI tools to improve development speed and quality.
• Solid Python experience.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS skills, with experience in Svelte/SvelteKit, React, or a comparable modern framework.
• Strong full-stack debugging skills across browser tooling, networking, services, and build systems.
   

Preferred

• Full-stack experience across front-end and Python back-end development.
• Experience building LLM-powered features, including prompt engineering, tool use, and RAG.
• Experience with Progressive Web Apps, including service workers, offline support, caching, and iOS/Android platform differences.
• Experience with Tailwind CSS.
   

What We Offer

• Competitive market salary.
• Fully remote work.
• Opportunity to design and scale modern backend and cloud-native systems.
• Hands-on ownership of backend architecture and technical direction.
• Work with modern AWS, serverless, database, and search technologies.
• Collaboration with experienced international engineering teams.
• Opportunity to lead a technical team while remaining hands-on.

Our client is a fast-growing, fast-paced software development organization with a mission to build new ways of interacting with information. They leverage intellectual property and their cloud infrastructure expertise to address complex, real-time data and analytics needs in the enterprise. Their teams are comprised of successful people who enjoy solving problems, engaging in substantive technical discussions, and have a strong passion for their work. They have high expectations in terms of skill, motivation, self-organization, and productivity. They value people who excel at working in collaborative, virtual, and collocated groups, and who thrive in fast-paced Agile development environments.
 
About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for our client. In this role, you will take ownership of building a new AWS tenant from scratch, including the full environment setup and ongoing management. You will play a key role in managing EKS clusters for Kubernetes workloads and implementing robust CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions. This is a long-term engagement.
 
Responsibilities:
 

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure starting from the ground up.
• Manage EKS clusters and ensure high availability, scalability, and security of Kubernetes environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform/Terragrunt.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) to support seamless deployments.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize cloud resources.
• Ensure best practices in cloud security, cost optimization, and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to align infrastructure with application needs.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to junior team members when needed.

Requirements:
 

• 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or related roles.
• Proven experience with AWS services and building secure, scalable cloud environments from scratch.
• Experience with setting up and administering ElasticSearch nodes on EC2 instances.
• Practical experience with Terraform (and ideally Terragrunt) for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining Docker containers.
• Experience with AWS ECS and ECR for container orchestration and registry.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and AWS EKS cluster management (desired especially if collaborating with internal platform teams).
• Familiarity with AWS core services such as ALB, networking, IAM, S3, EC2, Fargate, and other commonly used services.
• Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools, preferably GitHub Actions.
• Good understanding of networking, cloud security, and monitoring best practices.
• Monitoring: Experience with logging and observability tools such as Grafana, Loki and Tempo ..etc
• Scripting: Good scripting skills in Python or Bash
• EKS: Experience with Karpenter is a plus
• GPU: Experience with GPU nodes is a plus
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Comfortable working independently and proactively in a dynamic environment.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with distributed teams.
• Flexibility to work with US West Coast hours occasionally.
   

We Offer:
 

• Competitive market salary.
• Fully remote work.
• Convenient and somewhat flexible working hours.
• 28 days of paid time off per calendar year.
• The chance to work on meaningful, socially valuable products alongside a highly professional, US-based international team.
• Interesting technical challenges with opportunities to grow and learn.