Technical skills
ReactTypeScriptJavaScriptNext.jsNode.jsSQLNoSQLData scienceCI/CDDocker
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction for Internal Tools, including front-end architecture and component/design system strategy, and turn product requirements into technical designs and engineering tickets
- Design and build new internal tools and admin features end-to-end, front-end through back-end
- Find opportunities to apply recommendation, ranking, and search techniques to our tools, partnering with data science and product to set priorities
- Drive down technical debt through targeted refactors and set engineering standards through design reviews
- Build reusable components and tooling that pay off beyond a single project
- Be the escalation point for deep debugging, and partner with security to keep admin interfaces locked down
- Help engineers grow through pairing, code review, and direct feedback; write the specs and docs that let the team build with confidence
Qualifications
- 5+ years building software, with a track record of shipping systems that scale
- Strong system design and architecture skills
- Extensive experience in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
- Advanced, production-grade React skills
- Hands-on with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Elasticsearch, including performance tuning
- Experience building and scaling backend systems, ideally at a startup or small company
- Track record of mentoring engineers
- What Sets You Apart
- Production experience with Next.js
- Experience with recommendation, ranking, or search systems
- Product-minded: you think about users, not just systems
- Background building internal tools or ops platforms
- Comfortable with cloud infrastructure, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD
- Familiar with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or shipping ML in production