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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer – Back-End Focused

Stand Together

Job Location:

Arlington, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 2 July 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 30 September 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps Americas boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our countrysbiggest problems from education to the economy broken communities and toxic division among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding thought leadership a network of peers and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.

As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Back-End Focused) on our Enterprise IT team you will own the architecture and reliability of the backend systems powering Stand Togethers high-visibility consumer-facing web this role you will combine hands-on development with architectural oversight across scalable AWS-hosted applications ensuring the reliability performance and long-term scalability of our digital ecosystem while mentoring engineers and partnering cross-functionally to deliver high-impact solutions.

How You Will Contribute

Contribute to architecture design and technical decision-making across the full application stack including React and frontends backend services Contentful CMS integrations and AWS cloud infrastructure.
Design build and maintain scalable secure and high-performing APIs that serve as the foundation for consumer-facing applications.
Oversee CMS content modeling and editorial workflow optimization within Contentful CMS.
Improve CI/CD pipelines deployment processes monitoring observability and system reliability.
Ensure compliance with security governance and cloud infrastructure best practices within AWS including IAM least-privilege private S3 patterns and secrets management.
Establish and enforce engineering standards best practices and scalable design patterns.
Provide technical mentorship supervision and performance guidance to engineers.
Partner with product design and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
Support sprint planning technical estimation roadmap development and hiring efforts.

What You Will Bring

Bachelors or masters degree in computer science engineering or a related field.
7 years of full-stack software engineering experience with a clear back-end focus including demonstrated architectural responsibility.
Experience mentoring software engineers.
Excellent collaboration communication and cross-functional partnership skills.
Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript Python and PHP; strong backend experience preferably with NestJS.
Experience designing and consuming APIs in distributed or microservices architectures.
Experience with JWT/OIDC authentication including Auth0 or equivalent and passport-jwt/JWKS patterns.
Proven experience with relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases schema design query optimization multi-environment deployments and operational MongoDB (replication sharding performance tuning) preferred.
Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS (task definitions logging ECR).
Working knowledge of core AWS services: Amplify API Gateway ALB/NLB S3 EFS CloudWatch X-Ray IAM and VPC.
Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform Terragrunt).
CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and GitHub OIDC for secure AWS deployments.
Observability and production operations experience: logs metrics alarms distributed tracing and production troubleshooting.
Security best practices experience including IAM least-privilege private S3 patterns and secrets management.
Testing and quality discipline across unit integration and e2e layers (Jest) with strong linting and formatting standards.
Experience integrating headless CMS platforms with modern front-end frameworks.
Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Togethers vision and principled approach to solving problems and a commitment to stewarding our culture which champions values including transformation and innovation entrepreneurialism humility and respect.

Standout Candidates Will Bring

Experience supervising coaching and developing engineers including performance feedback goal-setting and day-to-day work prioritization.
Experience with Contentful CMS Drupal and WordPress in headless or hybrid configurations.
Familiarity with Turborepo pnpm monorepo patterns Storybook and design systems.
Zod/schema-first validation and OpenAPI generation tooling experience.
Hands-on experience with CloudPosse Terraform modules and terragrunt layout patterns.
Performance tuning for applications and MongoDB including caching strategy design.
Experience with EFS for stateful containers and mounting/permission management.
Knowledge of Checkov Terraform security scanning and Terraform CI checks.

What We Offer

Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting flexible time off comprehensive health and dental plans plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.
A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.
Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover develop and apply their unique talents.
Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities allowing you to share in the success you help drive.

$140000 - $170000 a year

For this role the anticipated base salary range is $140000 $ 170000 per year. This role may also be eligible for additional bonus compensation designed to align total compensation with an employees overall contribution to the organization.

Our Principles-Based Management (PBM) compensation philosophy is grounded in an individualized approach that rewards the long-term value each person creates for the organization. Compensation decisions are informed by a variety of factors including relevant experience capabilities demonstrated skills role responsibilities and expected contribution. Consistent with this approach base salary may vary within or outside of the anticipated range based on these considerations.

Our Values:Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management (PBM) a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress such as dignity openness and bottom-up empowerment. PBM empowers employees to be entrepreneurial to innovate and to continually drive transformation.

We believe diversity fuels creativity broadens knowledge and helps drive success. That is why were proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty dignity and respect.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

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