Sr. Backend Node.js Engineer (U.S remote within CST OR EST time zone)

We've recently partnered with a US-based Global Marketing agency to seek a US-based Remote Senior Backend Engineer to develop and maintain large-scale Node.js microservices functional infrastructure, all running on Amazon Web Services.  Our client is one of the leaders in their space offering a great combination of competitive salary, and benefits. Preferred location to be closer to the office within Dallas, Chicago, NY and or Virginia/Reston but this is a 100% remote role. - Be instrumental in developing digital experiences using cutting-edge technology by leveraging your Node.js software development experience.  - Be a key part of an application development project team comprised of onshore and offshore developers using Scrum ceremonies and methodologies. - Develop testable, reusable, and efficient code in Node.js for highly visible marketing and eCommerce Websites. - Ensure timely completion of your coding assignments and deliverables, as well as provide system-level documentation. Collaborate with Technical Managers to estimate specific work assignments, ensure the quality of your deliverables and provide status updates, and highlight issues. - You will participate in all Scrum processes, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, and Sprint Retrospectives.  - 4+ years of experience building websites, APIs, or microservices.  - Creativity and experience developing best-in-class software applications in Node.js using ECMAScript (ES) modules, NPM and Serverless Framework.  - Experience writing Node.js code that interacts with SQL or NoSQL databases.  - Hold in-depth knowledge of JavaScript. - Worked in Cloud Web Services such as AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB. - Hold strong notions of security best practices (e.g. using IAM Roles, Policies, KMS, etc.). - Knowledgeable of working with git and shells in a terminal on daily basis.  - Skilled at setting your local development environment tooling and deploying code to a remote server environment.  Good to have: - Built RESTful services and troubleshot them to HTTP protocol level.  - Experience in Cloud Web Services such as AWS API Gateway, Cognito, Secret Manager, RDS, EC2, ECS, Fargate, SQS, or similar.  - Used Node.js with Typescript. - Developed Lambda functions in Python. - An understanding of Continuous Integration technologies and deployment frameworks (i.e. Node Package Manager, Docker, Jenkins).