### - 8+ years of professional software development experience - 3-4+ years in senior technical leadership roles (Staff, Principal, or Architect level) - Expert-level backend development experience using TypeScript - Strong hands-on experience building serverless, event-driven architectures on AWS - Proven experience designing scalable APIs, distributed systems, and data models - Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, Docker, and observability tooling - Exposure to modern AI/ML systems and intelligent automation in production environments - Strong understanding of security, compliance, and system reliability
Responsibilities:
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- Drive the evolution of distributed, serverless platform architecture in AWS - Collaborate with senior engineering leadership to influence technical direction and design choices - Lead architecture and design assessments across teams and domains - Proactively identify and resolve technical debt and systemic gaps - Advocate for engineering standards, architectural frameworks, and best practices - Contribute to initiatives for platform intelligence, including automation, decision-making, and AI-driven capabilities - Design and construct scalable backend systems, APIs, and services using TypeScript - Develop cloud-native solutions utilizing AWS services like Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, IoT services, Step Functions, and CDK - Implement event-driven workflows and orchestration layers that connect software, cloud, and devices - Collaborate with frontend engineers to support modern web applications - Build internal APIs, service agreements, and developer-facing SDKs - Design systems with a focus on observability, reliability, and resilience - Execute robust testing strategies and continuously integrate/deploy (CI/CD) pipelines
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Company:
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We are Kforce, a company based in South Salt Lake City, UT, seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer with extensive backend expertise and a propensity for technical leadership. In this high-impact, senior-level position, you will blend hands-on development with architectural direction, crafting scalable and resilient systems for customer-facing applications, internal platforms, and hardware-integrated services. We offer competitive compensation, equity participation, comprehensive health benefits, a 401(k) retirement plan, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, and life and disability insurance options.
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