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, Software Engineering or a related field
• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Significant hands-on experience designing, building and operating production systems on AWS
• Proven experience with infrastructure as code using AWS CDK and/or Terraform
• Full software development lifecycle experience, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment and operations
• Experience building complex, event-driven, microservice-based systems
• Strong understanding of production-grade system reliability, observability and security
   

Great to have

• Ad tech experience (for example, real-time bidding (RTB) and real-time ad auctions, working with SSPs, DSPs, ad exchanges or header bidding/Prebid) is a strong plus
• Experience working embedded in client or distributed teams (staff augmentation or consulting) is a strong plus

Technical Proficiency

• Deep expertise in AWS, including designing and running highly available, multi-region architectures (redundancy, failover, data replication, disaster recovery)
• Hands-on proficiency with AWS CDK and Terraform
• Strong experience with AWS services
• Experience with scaling, performance tuning and cloud cost optimization
• Strong backend development skills in Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript
• Working proficiency with frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript
• Skilled in relational and non-relational data modeling and SQL development
• Ability to build and support CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions)
• Experience debugging distributed production systems at scale

Requirements

• Must be based in Colombia.
• Professional English fluency.
• Ability to work with significant overlap with US business hours.

Skills

• Client Obsessed: Keeps the client’s success front and center. Measures technical choices by their business impact.
• Clear Communicator: Collaborates effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Quality-Driven: Holds themselves to high standards for code quality and reliability.
• Ownership Mindset: Takes responsibility for delivering solutions that work in real-world conditions.
• Problem Solver: Thrive in complexity and find solutions even when requirements are evolving.

Compensation & Contract Details

Hourly rate: $50/hr USD

Contract Type

Though this role is structured as a contract engagement, the scope of work is substantial and may approximate a full-time (40 hours/week) workload

This role requires availability during core client business hours, Monday - Friday 9 - 5 ET

Requirements
Must have access to your own computer/device, design software, and a reliable internet connection.

Why Work for Very

We do not promise an easy ride — we promise meaningful work.

We work hard because our clients’ success depends on it, and we take pride in delivering when others can’t. We collaborate closely, move fast, and stay grounded in results. We take joy in the process — in the problem-solving, the iteration, and the shared wins that come from doing the hard things well.

If you’re looking for a place where every project matters, where the standards are high, and where you’ll grow by pushing yourself and others — welcome to Very.

Interviewing for a new company is a serious time commitment for all parties involved. Please take the time to read this and thoughtfully consider if we would be a good fit for one another.  No agencies. Seriously. #LI-Remote

**Note: To qualify for this role, you must reside in Colombia