AWS Full-Stack Developer

Lead Software Engineer – AWS (Digital Payments / ChoicePay Platform)Location: Columbus, Ohio | Contract: W2 - CTH We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our Digital Payments technology organization, supporting our AWS-based disbursement platform, ChoicePay. This role will lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, cloud-native solutions that power high-volume payment processing and disbursement capabilities. ChoicePay enables administrators to manage disbursements while allowing payees to receive funds through their preferred methods (PayPal, Venmo, ACH, Check, Gift Card, Debit Card, Zelle, etc.). Key Responsibilities: Technical Leadership & Delivery Serve as a Lead Subject Matter Expert (SME) across the Payment Disbursement technology stack Provide hands-on technical leadership for an AWS development team Act as a Tech Lead on project teams: Collaborate with business analysts on requirements Provide development estimates Author technical design documents Recommend modern cloud-based solutions aligned with enterprise standards Cloud Architecture & Development Design and build high-performance, event-driven systems using: AWS Lambda for core execution engine Amazon SQS & SNS to support highly scalable and event-based applications Develop scalable, resilient systems supporting: Payment origination, processing, disbursement, and settlement Monitor and troubleshoot applications using: AWS CloudWatch AWS CloudTrail Data & Infrastructure Build and manage containers: Compute: EC2 Databases: DynamoDB, RDS PostgreSQL Build adhoc reporting using Amazon QuickSight Security & Compliance Implement and manage security controls using: AWS GuardDuty AWS WAF AWS Security Hub Ensure proactive threat detection, monitoring, and compliance automation Frontend & API Development Develop user-facing applications using: JavaScript / Node.js AWS CloudFront (content delivery) Amazon S3 (UI hosting) Build and manage APIs using: API Gateway AppSync AWS Secrets Manager Integrate logging and monitoring (e.g., Splunk) Identity, Networking & Integration Implement authentication and user management with AWS Cognito Configure networking using VPC Manage configurations using AWS Config Build integrations across internal systems via APIs and messaging Communication & Platform Services Implement: Notifications and emails via Amazon SES Secure file transfers using AWS Transfer Family Operations & Governance Expert level leading change and incident management using ServiceNow Provide L3 production support (24/7 rotation across team) Ensure delivery across Agile lifecycle: Sprint planning Backlog grooming Detailed design Development Unit/Automated Testing Defect Fixes Implementation Planning/Execution Change Controls Deployment & production support Team Leadership Support hiring and staffing decisions: Candidate selection, interviewing, onboarding, referrals, etc Mentor engineers and promote best practices Help in tracking and reporting the development team's progress in completing deliverables using systems like ADO or Jira. Collaboration & Communication Work closely with enterprise IT and business stakeholders Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences Develop deep understanding of business processes, workflows, and controls Required Skills: 9+ years of hands-on full stack cloud-native application development experience 3+ years of hands-on development using technologies that provide JavaScript driven user experiences, RESTful web services, incoming/outgoing file processing, and asynchronous event-based integrations Bachelor’s Degree Relational databases/SQL: Amazon Aurora, MySQL, and PostgreSQL NoSQL databases like Amazon DynamoDB Scripting languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React JS, Node JS/Typescript, and AWS Lambda Serverless Compute Engines - AWS Fargate Amazon API Gateway Code repositories like GIT and AWS CodeCommit CI/CD pipelines like AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodePipeline Content delivery formats like JSON, XML, YAML, HTML, CSS, CSV, and Amazon Cloudfront Authentication and access controls like AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, AWS Single Sign On, AWS WAF, AWS Shield, Amazon Cognito, MFA Cloud infrastructure solutions like Amazon S3, Terraform, and AWS CloudFormation Communication technologies like Amazon SQS, Amazon SES and Amazon SNS DNS capabilities like DKIM, SPF, DMARC, AWS Route53 Batch/ETL processing capabilities like AWS Batch, SFTP, and AWS Transfer Experience using monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Splunk, DataDog, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon QLDB, and log files to evaluate the health of mission critical production applications and to identify root causes for performance and functional issues. Excellent design, documentation, analytical, communication and SDLC skills Pay: $115,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year Work Location: In person