Senior Software Engineer

About Very (Remote – Colombia) Very is a fully distributed technology firm led by expert problem-solvers who create efficient, scalable solutions that move commercial, industrial, and consumer products from pilot to production in record time. We believe that real innovation happens in the grind — working shoulder to shoulder with clients who are building the future. Our team thrives on that energy. When we’re not helping clients deliver business-critical outcomes, we’re refining our craft and celebrating what it means to do hard things well. We’ve built a collaborative, tight-knit culture that thrives in both remote and in-person settings. We’ve won numerous workplace awards over the years, including Great Place to Work certification and recognition from Parity.org as a Best Company for Women to Advance. Our clients include well-known brands like Vizio, Peloton, Clear, iHeart Radio, and Fellowes — all determined to leverage connected devices and AI to drive meaningful impact. Our job is simple: help them win. As a Senior Level Software Engineer, you'll join a client's engineering team through Very's staff augmentation model, working as an embedded member of their team on high-traffic, business-critical systems. Your main focus is AWS: helping design a multi-region architecture for redundancy and scale, and defining it as code with AWS CDK and Terraform. You'll also work across the stack, from backend services to front-end features. This role is hands-on and possibly long term. You'll work in the client's codebase, tools and processes, take part in their code reviews and on-call rotation, and report day to day to their engineering leads, while staying part of the Very team. At Very, a senior engineer has deep expertise in their specialty and works independently in their domain without needing detailed direction. This is not an easy role. You'll work under real deadlines with a client who expects you to be available, proactive and delivering from day one. If you like doing hard things well, you'll fit right in. What You’ll Be Working On As an embedded member of the client's engineering team, you'll:
- Capture technical requirements and contribute to high-level and low-level design for cloud solutions on AWS.
- Design and implement multi-region AWS architecture, including redundancy, failover and disaster recovery for critical services.
- Define, deploy and maintain infrastructure as code using AWS CDK and Terraform.
- Build and scale complex, microservice-based, event-driven systems.
- Build features across backend and frontend components as needed.
- Implement testing strategies and automation across the stack.
- Take part in the on-call rotation and help maintain system health, performance and reliability.
- Collaborate across engineering, design and product to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Identify and proactively address potential technical or operational risks before they affect customers. You’ll operate in a modern, polyglot environment that includes:
- Cloud: AWS (Lambda, ECS, Fargate, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS)
- Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK, Terraform
- Backend: Python, Node.js, TypeScript, distributed APIs and worker services
- Frontend: React, TypeScript
- DevOps: Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines
- Databases: Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB
- Testing: Jest, Cypress, Pytest and other automated test frameworks
- Observability: Logging, monitoring, alerting and production diagnostics Outcomes
- Deliver Multi-Region Resilience: Help stand up a highly available, multi-region AWS footprint that keeps critical services running through failures.
- Scale With Confidence: Make sure systems handle growth and traffic spikes with strong performance and controlled cloud costs.
- Codify Infrastructure: Deliver clean, reusable, well-documented CDK and Terraform the team can build on.
- Deliver High-Quality Features: Ship secure, reliable code that meets requirements, follows standards and delivers measurable business value.
- Be a Trusted Team Member: Integrate fully with the client's team and become someone they rely on. Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK and Terraform.
- Contribute to architecture decisions for multi-region deployment, redundancy and scaling.
- Implement features across frontend, backend and cloud components.
- Write clean, scalable and secure code and infrastructure that meets the client's and Very's engineering standards.
- Create and maintain automated tests across all layers of the stack.
- Own deployments, CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring and alerting.
- Work within the client's engineering processes, tools and team rituals (standups, sprint planning, code reviews).
- Take part in the 24/7 on-call rotation and help diagnose and resolve production issues.
- Support documentation and knowledge sharing within the team. Minimum Qualifications General Experience
- BS or higher in Computer Science, So