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Staff Full Stack Engineer

Recruitment.aiSunnyvale, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 28 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Role:Staff FullStack Developer 

Location:  Mountain View CA

Duration: Long Term

 

 
Responsibilities
• Architect and develop full-stack applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
• Design scalable microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures using Apache
Kafka.
• Build and deploy cloud-native applications on AWS using services such as EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch.
• Containerize and operate services using Docker and Kubernetes, including scaling,
deployments, and service reliability.
• Design and optimize data solutions using PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Drive architectural decisions related to scalability, performance, availability, security, and
reliability.
• Lead technical initiatives from design through production and establish engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across teams.

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor''''s or Master''''s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent.
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js, and React.
• Proven experience building scalable full-stack applications, microservices, and distributed
systems.
• Production experience with Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
• Strong knowledge of system design, APIs, asynchronous programming, database optimization, and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and production operations.
• Strong technical leadership, problem-solving, communication, and mentoring skills.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience building large-scale ecommerce, retail, payments, or customer-facing platforms.
• Experience with AWS EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, MSK, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Experience with Next.js SSR/SSG, App Router, frontend performance optimization, and testing
frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, or Playwright.
• Previous experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Technical Lead, or Architect.

Skills

Docker
Microservices
Next.js
Node.js
AWS
Apache
Cypress
Grafana
Jest
Kafka
Kubernetes
Playwright
PostgreSQL
Prometheus
React
Redis
Terraform
TypeScript

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