We are looking for a talented Full-Stack Developer with at least 3 years of experience building scalable, production-grade web applications across both frontend and backend systems.
You will join a fast-moving engineering team responsible for designing, developing, and delivering core product features, new platforms, and high-quality user experiences. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, working across the stack, and building systems that are robust, scalable, and easy to maintain.
The ideal candidate is hands-on, curious, product-minded, and comfortable working in an Agile environment. We are also looking for someone who actively embraces modern software engineering practices, including the use of standard AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and engineering workflows.
Requirements
At least 3 years of full-stack software development experience.
At least 2 years of experience with client-side development using React.js.
Strong experience with popular React.js workflows and state management patterns such as Redux, Flux, or similar.
At least 2 years of experience working with an object-oriented backend framework.
Strong experience with C# or Java, including asynchronous programming, multithreaded applications, generics, and collections.
Experience developing secured REST APIs and backend services.
Solid understanding of RDBMS principles and at least 1 year of hands-on experience with SQL relational databases.
Experience with modern JavaScript and TypeScript, including ES6+.
Experience with common frontend development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, and modern build pipelines.
Experience working with Git and standard software development workflows.
Experience writing automated tests using tools such as Jest, Cypress, Enzyme, or similar.
Familiarity with standard AI-assisted software engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar tools.
Ability to use AI tools thoughtfully for code generation, refactoring, debugging, test creation, documentation, and productivity improvement while maintaining strong engineering judgment.
Advantages
Experience developing microservices and scalable server-side infrastructures.
Experience with Material UI.
Experience with HTML5 streaming video.
Experience optimizing for high throughput systems.
Experience working with Storybook.
Experience with Redis or MongoDB.
Experience working in Scrum or Agile teams.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, observability, or DevOps practices.
Experience introducing or improving AI-assisted engineering workflows within a development team.
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