Principal Backend Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Principal Backend Engineer Aspira | Phoenix Engineering About Aspira

For forty years, Aspira has been the market-leading software and services provider for the great outdoors, primarily for state and provincial parks and wildlife agencies. As part of our constant evolution, we're executing an aggressive multi-year transformation to accelerate revenue growth, optimize cost structures, and maximize shareholder value while expanding our market position.

The Ideal Candidate

As a Principal Back End Engineer at Aspira, you will be a key technical leader within our engineering team, driving the design, development, and optimization of robust back-end systems that are crucial to the company’s operational success and scalability. This role combines in-depth coding expertise, architectural design, and strategic leadership, ensuring that all back-end solutions are scalable, efficient, and aligned with both technical and business objectives. The Principal Back End Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior engineers, and play a critical role in shaping the technical roadmap for our back-end infrastructure.

In this role, you will be building highly scalable serverless applications on AWS. You will work closely with product managers, front-end engineers, and other stakeholders to design and implement solutions that leverage modern technologies and best practices. Your extensive experience in serverless architecture, along with your deep knowledge of AWS Services like CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB, AppSync, Lambda, EventBridge, and StepFunctions, will be instrumental in ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our technical infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable, high-performance back-end services, APIs, and system architectures.
• Optimize build pipelines, deployment processes, and overall system performance while reducing technical debt.
• Define and implement comprehensive testing strategies (unit, integration, load) to ensure code quality, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, front-end engineers, and security teams to align technical roadmaps and ensure compliance with best practices.
• Mentor and guide back-end engineers, driving technical discussions, code reviews, and fostering a culture of learning and excellence.
• Take ownership of complex projects, managing timelines, identifying risks, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery.
• Continuously improve infrastructure and development processes by introducing new tools, technologies, and methodologies.
• Uphold company values by promoting teamwork, accountability, compliance, and ethical standards in all work.

Qualifications

Desired Hardware and Software Competencies

Desired Education and Experience