Senior Cloud Backend Engineer

We’re currently seeking a passionate freelance Senior Backend Developer (Cloud) to join our projects ASAP. As a freelancer cooperating with intent, you'll have the opportunity to work on diverse IoT projects, leveraging your expertise in backend and cloud technologies.

About intent

intent has over 15+ years of experience in conceptualizing, designing, and building apps for IoT and connected devices. We act as a specialized think partner for products at the intersection of physical and digital (such as wearables and IoT), working with companies like Oura, BOSE, and McIntosh audio systems.

Perks & Benefits:

• 100% remote work & flexible working hours.

• Knowledge-sharing initiatives.

• If we’re a great fit after a few months of collaboration, we’d love to invite you to join the internal intent team for a long-term partnership.

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure based on AWS.

• Develop backend code and API interfaces that support the business logic of a mobile application.

• In the case of our biggest project, occasional travel to the US is expected

Requirements:

• AWS Lambda (provisioned-concurrency, SnapStart), API Gateway (REST + WebSocket), ECS Fargate, CloudFront, Cognito federation

• Time-series & relational data - designing schemas and retention policies in Amazon Timestream and Aurora Serverless v2

• ETL pipelines that land raw sensor blobs in S3 and publish Parquet/TFRecord “ML-ready” sets (Glue + Athena)

• WebSocket (API Gateway) fan-out, device-command queues, signed firmware delivery, staged roll-back logic

• Implementing field-level encryption with KMS, IAM least-privilege, WAF

• Building GDPR/CCPA compliant solutions, consent receipt storage, data-minimisation life-cycles

• Structured logging (JSON), CloudWatch/X-Ray tracing, metric alarms, cost-allocation tagging and Cost Explorer dashboards.

• Load-testing & provisioned-capacity right-sizing

• Terraform (modules, workspaces) and GitLab CI/CD

• Secret rotation, SBOM generation, automated policy checks

• TypeScript/Node.js (NestJS, Next.js)

Recruitment Process:

1. Screening call with HR (45 mins).

2. Technical interview (60-90 mins).

3. Final feedback within a week after the interview.

Join Us! 🚀

Be part of groundbreaking IoT projects, shaping the future of cloud and backend technology. If you’re excited about cloud computing, scalable systems, and backend development in innovative projects—this is the place for you! 💡