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    Senior Software Engineer

    • Reference Number: 397591
    • Posted: 06/18/2026
    • Job Type: Contract
    • Industry: Technology and IT

    Seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Rockville, MD

    **Role requires an onsite interview and 3-days/week onsite work**

    Required Skills:

    • AWS Experience (5+ years)
      • Core services: EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, API Gateway
      • QuickSight for dashboards and data visualization
      • CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshooting
      • IAM, Security services, VPC networking
      • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
    • Programming & Development
      • Strong in Python, Node.js, Go, or similar
      • Java knowledge is a plus
      • Experience with frontend applications (React, Angular, Vue.js) is a plus
      • RESTful API design and microservices architecture
      • CI/CD pipelines (GitLab exposure preferred)
    • Databases
      • Advanced SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora)
    Core Competencies:
    • Problem Solving
      • Strong solutioning mindset - architect solutions for complex business problems
      • Root cause analysis expert - systematically identify and resolve issues
      • Navigate AWS services to troubleshoot across distributed systems
      • Analyze logs, metrics, and traces to diagnose problems
    • Mindset & Approach
      • Challenge the status quo - question existing approaches and propose improvements
      • Not task-oriented - think strategically beyond immediate assignments
      • Proactively identify inefficiencies and technical debt
      • Drive innovation and continuous improvement
      • Question assumptions and advocate for better solutions
    • Technical Leadership
      • Mentor engineers and drive architectural decisions
      • Code reviews and maintain standards
      • Collaborate with cross-functional teams
      • Document designs and troubleshooting guides
    • Experience:
      • 8-10+ years software development (Required)
      • 5+ years AWS cloud platform experience (Required)
      • Frontend application support/development experience is a plus
      • Production incident response and on-call exposer
    • Preferred:
      • AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)
      • Serverless architecture experience
      • GitLab CI/CD pipelines
      • Regulated industry experience is a plus

    Location

    Rockville, MD

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