Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer
Work Hours and Location: Batavia, IL office location with discretionary remote work. Some local and minimal interstate travel for meetings, training, conventions, project support, or site visits could occur. Typical work week is M-F, full-time, daytime hours. 
Classification: Salary / Exempt
Reports to: Workflow Automation Specialist
Salary Range: $60,000 - $90,000 annually (based on experience) + discretionary bonus opportunity
Department: Business Improvement

Summary of Action: As a Full Stack Engineer you will play a vital role in developing a new platform that will help with consolidating pre-construction planning, project management, logistics, & accounting. You'll be taking a first principles approach towards ownership and building of modules with a constant focus on providing the best possible experience for our customers and accelerating our operational efficiency and bandwidth. 

Mission and Values: Our employees must embrace our company’s core values, focus, and be mission-minded toward our vision of creating abundant opportunities through shared victory. They must approach each day with an unrelenting pursuit of excellence and with undying grit. We seek to employ good folks who show their unpretentious, selfless, fun, and gracious ways from their core.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Front-End Development

• Full end-to-end testing of user experience. Finding, reporting, and patching bugs and performance issues before they reach the end user.
• Creating a beautiful aesthetic, enforcing modular CSS styling, and ensuring aesthetic consistency and clarity.

2. Back-End Development

• Use first principles to solve problems at their root.
• Build python & JavaScript modules that scale with the operations of a $250,000,000 (and growing) fence construction company.
• Manage security audits on database, server, and front-end website.
• Back end tech stack: Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, PostgreSQL
  • Python proficiency treated as a near-non-negotiable
  • AI/prompt engineering proficiency valued over raw SQL schema management

3. Server & System Maintenance

• Enforce robust logging. Manage GCE VM instance images for system backups & deployment testing.
  • Rolling VM backups (hourly, daily, weekly)
  • Three mirrored VM instances: production, testing/deployment, sandbox
  • QC checks, log monitoring, and proactive issue patching
• Work in conjunction with systems analysts to implement software solutions for data cleanliness.
• Current environment: Google Compute Engine, Google APIs, Codex for rapid development

Work Environment and Physical Demands:  

Work environment includes primarily offices, or home office, but can include construction sites and construction or supply yards. Both indoor and outdoor environments may be encountered. Physical demands can include walking, sitting, standing, lifting, bending, climbing, and crouching. This role involves close collaboration with the Director and other team members, engaging in both independent tasks and group projects.  

EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity)/AAP (Affirmative Action Plan) Statement: 

Complete Fence provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. The company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants and employees are treated during the application process and post hiring employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type is not tolerated.

Qualifications: 

• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and work effectively in a fast-paced, team-support environment.
• Ability to demonstrate a build or build something from scratch as part of the interviewing process.
• Exceptional proficiency in prompt/context engineering and using AI tools to ship features. 
• 3+ years of experience working directly with Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, & JavaScript.
  • Python proficiency treated as a near-non-negotiable
  • AI/prompt engineering proficiency valued over raw SQL schema management

Additional Information:

• Domain experience in logistics, PO management, materials management, manufacturing, or construction valued over pure coding depth
  • Candidate with 2 years hobby coding + 5-10 years relevant industry experience preferred over someone with only raw syntax knowledge
• On-site requirement: open to a couple flex remote days for exceptional performers; fully remote is a non-starter
• Portfolio ask: something built in a professional context relevant to the domain, or a project built over 5-7 days specifically for the interview