Full Stack Dev Next JS / React / AWS

Remote

Contract (1 month 15 days)

Published 4 hours ago

AWS certifications

aws cloud

performance optimization

DevOps & CI/CD

sql databases

production support

dynamodb

AWS Monitoring

Key Responsibilities:

• Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot AWS production environments.
• Design and maintain serverless applications using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Step Functions.
• Design scalable DynamoDB data models, indexes, and access patterns.
• Build and maintain automated workflows, APIs, and platform integrations.
• Develop and enhance applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD using Terraform and GitHub Actions.
• Monitor platform health with CloudWatch; lead incident resolution and root-cause analysis.
• Optimize CDN delivery, caching, performance, SEO, accessibility, Core Web Vitals, and scalability.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years supporting production AWS environments.
• Experience operating high-traffic, public-facing websites and owning systems through production support.
• Strong AWS experience with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, CloudWatch, S3, SNS/SQS, IAM, Route 53, and Secrets Manager.
• Deep DynamoDB expertise, including access-pattern-driven design, partition and sort keys, Global Secondary Indexes, query optimization, and scaling considerations.
• Experience building event-driven architectures and reliable Step Functions workflows with retries, error handling, monitoring, and recovery.
• Strong development experience with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and REST APIs.
• Experience with Next.js SSR, SSG, ISR, responsive development, SEO, accessibility, and front-end performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of CDN architecture, edge/API/browser caching, resiliency, and Core Web Vitals.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Glue, EventBridge, ECS/Fargate, or ETL and data-integration pipelines.
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, and stored procedures.
• Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Contentstack, or another headless CMS.
• AWS certifications and experience in media, entertainment, direct-to-consumer, or content publishing.
• Experience with AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Amazon Q Developer, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar.

Ideal Candidate:

• A self-directed senior engineer who can own AWS operations, DynamoDB architecture, workflow automation, DevOps, production support, and high-traffic Next.js applications with minimal supervision. The successful candidate is equally comfortable resolving production incidents and delivering scalable platform and website enhancements.

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $41.61/hour - $65.01/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information.

In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.