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Fictiv

Senior Software Engineer

Fictiv

. Design and develop highly available, scalable backend services in AWS .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSDistributed SystemsEC2GraphQLJavaScriptNode.jsNoSQLSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design and develop highly available, scalable backend services in AWS
  • Build and maintain event-driven, asynchronous systems using Node.js
  • Create robust REST and GraphQL APIs for customer-facing and internal tools
  • Use AI coding agents from design through implementation and testing while owning correctness
  • Write specifications, tests, and repository context for reliable agent-driven development
  • Partner with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to ship business-impacting features
  • Contribute to technical design discussions and drive team best practices
  • Share AI patterns, tooling, and lessons learned
  • Debug production issues and improve system reliability
  • Improve code quality through testing, observability, and documentation

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5 + years of backend engineering experience
  • Strong skills in Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Experience building systems on AWS (SQS, Lambda, EC2, RDS, etc.)
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
  • Experience designing and maintaining REST or GraphQL APIs
  • Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases
  • A commitment to writing unit and integration tests
  • Knowledge of system design, caching, and security best practices (OWASP Top 10)
  • Hands-on experience shipping production code with AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot agent mode), with clear examples of where you had to step in, correct, or override them
  • Strong code review skills, applied just as rigorously to AI-generated changes
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
  • AWS certification, experience with high-scale or business-critical systems, pricing/quoting or numerically sensitive business logic, and agent workflows/custom tools/MCP integrations are nice to have

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Flexible, West Coast-friendly work environment
  • Minimal travel (0–10%)