In this role, youll get to: • Architect and implement large-scale, fully serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, S3, and RDS • Define the architectural vision for cloud-native, event-driven systems across Orion • Lead design for new platforms, subsystems, and cross-cutting capabilities that support Orion's growth and scale • Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, consistent deployment • Serve as Orion's top technical expert in AWS architecture and serverless engineering • Provide guidance, mentorship, and direction to engineers, senior engineers, and tech leads • Lead design reviews, complex debugging efforts, and operational excellence initiatives • Drive adoption of new AWS services, modern distributed system patterns, and emerging technologies-including generative and agentic AI • Partner with Product, Security, DevOps, and business stakeholders to ensure technical decisions support Orion's strategic goals • Champion secure coding practices, system hardening, and proactive risk mitigation • Build performant, resilient, scalable systems that self-heal and optimize cost • Create and enforce testing strategies, including integrated and automated testing approaches • Diagnose and solve high-severity issues across any layer of the stack-front-end, back-end, database, networking, or infrastructure • Shape the engineering culture by promoting best practices, simplification, and continuous improvement • Influence roadmaps and technology direction through data, experience, and clear communication • Serve as a trusted advisor across engineering teams and to senior leadership • Build strong cross-functional relationships to drive work that impacts multiple areas of the business • Independently define methods, strategies, and technical approaches for novel or ambiguous initiatives • Balance creativity and discipline to build solutions that deliver outsized impact • Maintain a continuous learning practice to stay ahead of rapidly evolving cloud engineering trends • Operate with a platform-owner mindset-thinking holistically about reliability, scale, and long-term maintainability. Were looking for talent who: • Has mastery of modern JavaScript/TypeScript and the Node.js ecosystem • Has deep experience building rich, modern UIs using React and supporting front-end libraries • Has strong understanding of browser capabilities, web performance, and front-end architecture • Has advanced SQL and relational database expertise, especially MySQL (schema design, indexing, query optimization) • Has knowledge of data lakes and distributed data pipeline technologies • Has expertise across AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, SES, EventBridge, S3, RDS) • Has strong understanding of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, cryptography, and security protocols • Has mastery of git workflows, CI/CD pipelines, IaC best practices, and SDLC processes • Has broad architectural pattern knowledge (DDD, CQRS, SOLID, event-driven patterns) • Has exceptional debugging and problem-solving skills across the full stack • Tackles high-impact, highly ambiguous problems with no blueprint • Defines technical frameworks, patterns, and decision structures for other engineers to follow • Solutions directly influence Orion's long-term scalability, reliability, and competitive advantage • Builds influence networks across teams and guides engineering direction at scale • Operates with full independence on new, critical, or technically undefined initiatives • Determines architecture, technical strategies, and methods for complex initiatives • Has a minimum of 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience • Has demonstrated mastery architecting and building in AWS • Has AWS Solutions Architect certification (or equivalent experience) strongly preferred • Owns and manages relationships with stakeholders directly and works effectively with people at all levels in an organization.