Software Dev Engineer IV (Redmond)

Position: Software Dev Engineer IV

Location: Redmond, WA 98052

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Pay Rate: $90.00-$96.00/HR

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customer-centric approach, innovation-driven culture, and large-scale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.

Job Description:

• The team is responsible for developer experience, DevOps, CI/CD, and production services.
• We are looking for an engineer with experience in system design and backend services, along with advanced knowledge of AWS cloud services infrastructure such as DynamoDB, Lambdas, CloudWatch, API gateways, CDK and Pipelines. Proficiency in Golang/Rust/TypeScript/Python is required.
• The candidate would participate in all phases of software development from requirements through implementation and test to operations.
• You will participate in the development design, integration and improvement of the software.
• This includes designing and implementing a wide range of software using AWS stack, sometimes requiring partnership with low-level embedded code software systems and architecting scalable design solutions for software distribution and deployment for satellites.
• You must be able to disambiguate high level of ambiguity and unknowns, design flexible solutions and able to succeed within an open, collaborative environment.

Key job responsibilities:

• Software architecture and design and development
• Understanding of AWS stack - IAM, Lambdas, CloudWatch, API gateways, EC2
• CDK constructs and pipelines
• Build tools for developer productivity, monitoring and observability metrics dashboard

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience, Golang/ PHP/Python/ Java backend services programming
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor and leading a development project
• The role requires strong expertise in TypeScript and Go programming languages, with comprehensive knowledge of AWS services, including pipeline, SMS notifications, EC2, CloudFront, and SigV4. Infrastructure as code experience is essential, particularly with CDK for pipeline development and S3 integration.
• The team emphasized that candidates should be comfortable creating CDKs using TypeScript and working across multiple services.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Top 3 Must Have Hard Skills:

• The role requires expertise in TypeScript, Go, AWS services (ECR, EC2, DOCKER, GC2, IAM, Lambda), and infrastructure as code, with a preference for former employees.

Nice to haves:

• The team expressed strong preference for former employees.
• The position requires a minimum of 6 years of experience.
• Candidates should be comfortable working with customers and managing production-grade applications across multiple service environments.

Leadership Principles:

• Ownership, Learn and Be Curious
• Think Big
• Bias for Action
• Frugality
• Earn Trust
• Dive Deep,

Years of Experience:

• 7 to 8 Years

Degree or Certification:

• Computer Science, AWS Certification

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.