Kforce has a client in South Salt Lake City, UT that is seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer with deep backend expertise and a strong aptitude for technical leadership to help evolve a modern, cloud-native platform at the intersection of software, hardware, and intelligent automation. Summary: This is a high-impact, senior-level role for an engineer who combines hands-on development with architectural leadership-designing and delivering scalable, resilient systems that power customer-facing applications, internal platforms, and hardware-integrated services. You will play a key role in shaping technical direction, influencing best practices, and owning complex initiatives end to end. Roles and Responsibilities: Platform Architecture & Technical Leadership: Help drive the evolution of distributed, serverless platform architecture in AWS Partner with senior engineering leadership to influence technical direction and design decisions Lead architecture and design reviews across teams and domains Proactively identify and remediate technical debt and systemic gaps Promote engineering standards, architectural patterns, and best practices Contribute to platform intelligence initiatives, including automation, decisioning, and AI-enabled capabilities Hands-On Backend Development: Design and build scalable backend systems, APIs, and services using TypeScript Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, IoT services, Step Functions, and CDK Implement event-driven workflows and orchestration layers that bridge software, cloud, and connected devices Collaborate with frontend engineers supporting modern web applications Build internal APIs, service contracts, and developer-facing SDKs Reliability, Security & Operations: Design systems with observability, reliability, and resiliency at their core * Implement robust testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines
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