Full stack Developer 1 for Ongoing production Support Team

Our story At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

Our Values: Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs. Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives. Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others. It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation. With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work. Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight. Learn more at careers.alight.com

AWS Full Stack Developer Location: Remote / Hybrid Experience Level: Senior (10+ years)

Summary Full Stack Developer with 10+ years of IT experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying scalable applications on AWS Cloud. Proficient in both front-end and back-end development, leveraging Angular for rich user interfaces and AWS services for robust, secure, and high-performance cloud-native solutions. Extensive experience with multi-tier architecture, RESTful microservices, and CI/CD automation using modern DevOps practices.

Core Responsibilities

• Build robust, secure, and high-performance cloud-native solutions on AWS, leveraging both front-end (Angular, TypeScript) and back-end (Node.js, RESTful APIs) technologies.
• Implement multi-tier architectures and RESTful microservices, integrating with upstream and downstream systems.
• Proficiently use AWS Services for application development and operations.
• Design and deploy serverless and containerized applications.
• Manage databases with Amazon RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL), DynamoDB, and Aurora, including both SQL and NoSQL modeling.
• Leverage secure authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Apply IaC practices using Terraform for scalable and repeatable infrastructure management.
• Employ testing frameworks and backend testing tools to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Work within Agile and Waterfall frameworks, focusing on continuous delivery and iterative development.
• Use GitHub and AWS CodeCommit for source control and configuration management.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing.
• Optimize application performance and ensure high availability through AWS scaling and caching mechanisms (Elastic Load Balancer, CloudFront).

Requirements:

• Strong experience (10+ years) in full stack application development using Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, and RESTful APIs.
• Proficient with AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudFormation, EC2, ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch, and IAM.
• Skilled in serverless and containerized application design and deployment using AWS SAM, Docker, and ECS.
• Expertise in building and consuming RESTful APIs, integrating with upstream and downstream systems using Node.js or Spring Boot.
• Strong proficiency in database management with Amazon RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL), DynamoDB, and Aurora, including SQL and NoSQL modeling.
• Experience in implementing secure authentication and authorization using AWS Cognito, OAuth2.0, and JWT.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.
• Familiar with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Good working knowledge of testing frameworks and backend testing tools like JUnit.
• Strong exposure to Agile and Waterfall methodologies, with a focus on continuous delivery and iterative development.
• Adept in version control and configuration management tools including GitHub, Bitbucket, and AWS CodeCommit.
• Broad experience in logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and ELK stack.
• Skilled at optimizing application performance and ensuring high availability through AWS scaling and caching mechanisms (Elastic Load Balancer, CloudFront).

Benefits We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as several voluntary benefit options. By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

Our commitment to Inclusion We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful. At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future. As part of this commitment, Alight will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact alightcareers@alight.com.

Equal Opportunity Policy Statement Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state, or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ, disabled persons, disabled veterans and other covered veterans. Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request a reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting their recruiter.

Authorization to work in the Employing Country Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight. Note, this job description does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities, including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

DISCLAIMER: Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.