Senior Full Stack & Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Title: Senior Full Stack & Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Location: Remote
Job Type : Long Term Contract

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior Full Stack & Cloud Platform Engineer to play a foundational role in the development and productization of NextBrain Off-Prem, NextBrain's cloud-hosted platform. This individual will design and develop scalable cloud-native applications while helping establish the AWS architecture, deployment patterns, security controls, observability and engineering standards required to operate NextBrain as an enterprise platform. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering experience with deep AWS knowledge and is comfortable working across front-end, back-end, APIs, cloud infrastructure and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain full-stack capabilities for the NextBrain cloud platform.
• Define and evolve the AWS architecture supporting NextBrain applications and services.
• Develop scalable APIs and microservices supporting NextBrain tools, agents, analytics applications and data services.
• Build reusable patterns that simplify onboarding of new applications and analytical tools into NextBrain.
• Implement cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Implement authentication and authorization patterns, including enterprise SSO, IAM, RBAC and application-level access controls.
• Design secure mechanisms for managing application secrets, credentials, configuration and environment variables.
• Establish application observability through logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Improve application reliability, scalability, performance and resilience.
• Partner with Data Engineering and AI/ML team members to operationalize data and AI services.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting and production support.
• Establish technical standards and engineering best practices for the NextBrain cloud platform.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience developing production applications using Python and/or modern backend technologies.
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular or equivalent.
• Extensive hands-on AWS experience.
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, Secrets Manager and related services.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, distributed systems and cloud-native application architecture.
• Experience with Docker and containerized applications.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, AWS CDK or CloudFormation.
• Strong understanding of application security, authentication, authorization and enterprise identity management.
• Experience working in Agile product development environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect or AWS Developer certification.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing enterprise SSO using OAuth2, OIDC, SAML or Active Directory.
• Experience with AI/ML or LLM-enabled applications.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or reusable application frameworks.
• Experience with industrial, energy, IoT, SCADA or operational technology environments.