Senior AWS Application Engineer
TELUS Digital · Remote · Remote, US · Boston, MA · Charlottesville, VA · Durham, NC · Columbus, OH ·
COMPENSATION
$153k – $180k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior level role
- Remote (US/Canada)
- AWS Serverless focus
- Python or Node.js
- Occasional travel
TELUS Digital seeks a Senior AWS Application Engineer to design, build, and ship serverless applications and APIs for enterprise clients. You will own technical delivery from design to production, ensuring security, scalability, and cost efficiency while mentoring other engineers.
What you'll do
- Design and build scalable, event-driven serverless applications using AWS services
- Develop secure RESTful and GraphQL APIs with strong performance standards
- Write clean, tested code in Python or Node.js/TypeScript
- Automate infrastructure and deployments using IaC and CI/CD pipelines
- Apply AWS Well-Architected principles for security and observability
- Tune serverless workloads for latency, concurrency, and cost efficiency
- Partner with clients to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews and pairing
What you'll need
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 4+ years building and operating production applications on AWS
- Deep expertise with AWS serverless services like Lambda and DynamoDB
- Strong programming skills in Python or Node.js/TypeScript
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools like CDK or Terraform
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or CodePipeline
- Strong understanding of AWS security best practices and IAM
- Excellent communication skills for client-facing consulting work
Nice to have
- AWS certifications such as Developer or Solutions Architect
- Experience with Amazon Connect or contact center solutions
- Familiarity with conversational AI services like Amazon Lex
Stack
- AWS Lambda
- API Gateway
- Step Functions
- DynamoDB
- Python
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
How you'll work
- Remote within United States or Canada
- Optional office presence in major North American cities
- Travel up to 25% to client locations