Sr Fullstack Engineer (Backend Focus)

Role Overview
Senior full-stack engineer to join a small, high-impact team building and expanding an enterprise platform for content creation, publishing, integrations, plugins, and AI-enabled user experiences. The selected candidate will have significant end-to-end ownership, from solution design and development through deployment, troubleshooting, and ongoing support.

Ideal Candidate

• Typically, 5–10 years of progressive software development experience.
• Strong backend engineering experience with full-stack capability.
• Hands-on experience building and supporting production applications.
• Ability to independently own large features, modules, services, or pipelines.
• Strong understanding of system design, algorithms, data structures, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Comfortable working in a small team with high visibility, autonomy, and accountability.
• Able to learn unfamiliar frameworks and technologies quickly.

Core Technology Environment

• Backend: Python
• Frontend: React
• Database: PostgreSQL or another relational database
• Cloud: AWS or comparable cloud platform

AI Expectations
This is not an AI research or machine-learning specialist role.

Candidates should have:

• Foundational knowledge of generative AI and AI-assisted development.
• Experience using or evaluating AI coding tools.
• The judgment to identify incorrect, insecure, or unsuitable AI-generated code.
• The ability to quickly learn and apply new AI tools in practical engineering workflows.

Key Evaluation Areas
Please prioritize candidates who can clearly explain:

• A system or major feature they personally took from design to production.
• A production failure they diagnosed, resolved, and prevented from recurring.
• Architectural decisions involving scale, latency, reliability, or maintainability.
• Relational database design, data integrity, indexing, and performance.
• Their individual contributions rather than only overall team accomplishments.
• Experience working with incomplete requirements and limited supervision.

Engagement and Interview Process

• Initial contract duration: approximately six months, with potential extension.
• Interviews will focus on scenario-based technical and production questions.
• A video technical interview may be required.
• A coding assessment may be used when additional validation is needed.