Senior Full-Stack & Cloud Engineer (Contract - 6 months)

About this role

We are seeking a hands-on *Senior Full-Stack & Cloud Engineer* to take technical ownership of an internally developed web application and transition it into a secure, reliable, and maintainable production solution. The application was rapidly developed using Claude Code and VS Code and will initially support approximately 100 internal employees. The successful candidate will assess and strengthen the existing codebase, establish appropriate engineering and security standards, implement a sustainable hosting and deployment model, and provide ongoing technical support and enhancements. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who is comfortable working with AI-assisted development while bringing the engineering judgment required to ensure production applications are secure, maintainable, and reliable.

### About the Role

• Take technical ownership of the existing application, including reviewing and understanding the AI-generated codebase.
• Identify technical debt, security vulnerabilities, and architectural risks, and refactor where appropriate without unnecessarily rebuilding working parts.
• Develop and maintain front-end, back-end, API, and database functionality, and build new features as business needs evolve.
• Establish coding, documentation, testing, and code-review standards.
• Design and maintain simple, secure, cost-effective hosting with separate development/test and production environments.
• Implement automated CI/CD pipelines with a documented deployment and rollback process.
• Manage configuration, secrets, certificates, and domains, and establish backup and recovery processes.
• Implement monitoring, logging, error tracking, and alerting, and track reliability, performance, and cost.
• Implement SSO-based authentication, role-based access control, least-privilege permissions, and audit logging.
• Conduct a production-readiness assessment, execute a prioritized remediation plan, and partner with IT/security to meet organizational requi...