Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

LocalStack; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a fast-growing startup as a senior full-stack engineer, leading the development of features for a cutting-edge cloud platform. You'll collaborate across teams, mentor others, and drive architectural excellence, all while working remotely in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Fully remote

Competitive salary

Performance bonus

Share options

Annual company retreat

Top-quality equipment

Learning budget

Qualifications

• Proven track record in production cloud environments.
• Strong experience in end-to-end complex technical projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development of impactful features.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and drive best practices.

Skills

Python

React

TypeScript

Job description

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Who We Are

We are a fast-growing Series A startup building cutting-edge technology to revolutionize cloud development processes and support highly efficient dev&test feedback loops. We've closed our last $25mil round in Q4 2024, led by Notable Capital, CRV and Heavybit.

At its core, LocalStack provides a high-fidelity emulator and local cloud development platform. Imagine developing cloud applications and data pipelines entirely on your local machine within a lightweight cloud sandbox, running in Docker!

Our mission is to empower developers to rapidly build and test their cloud applications, allowing for a more enjoyable dev experience, and saving valuable time and resources.

LocalStack has a large and active open-source community (57k+ stars on GitHub) with over 100k active users worldwide and 290M+ downloads to date. Our customer base ranges from SMBs to Global Fortune 500 companies.

We are sustainably growing our globally distributed team across sectors.

LocalStack is headquartered in Zurich/Switzerland, with a main engineering office in Vienna/Austria and remote team members from the US, FR, UK, CA, ES, and many more countries.

Check our Notion Candidate Handbook and our GitHub!

Role Overview

As a senior full-stack engineer at LocalStack, you will lead end-to-end development of impactful features, shaping a seamless and scalable developer experience across our cloud platform. Through technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and a passion for innovation, you'll drive architectural excellence while mentoring others and continuously enhancing the LocalStack product.

Requirements

What you will be working on/responsible for

• Leading and owning complex technical projects from conception through to execution and monitoring.
• Translating ambiguous or vague problem spaces into clear, actionable technical plans and deliverables.
• Building and improving cloud infrastructure tooling, ensuring stability and scalability in production environments.
• Writing clean, scalable code in Python and React (preferably TypeScript), contributing to both backend and frontend components.
• Debugging and resolving production issues within cloud environments, with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Mentoring and guiding mid-level engineers, helping to drive adoption of best practices and high engineering standards.
• Contributing innovative ideas to improve LocalStack's product and enhance the developer experience.

Experience we expect you to bring to the role

• Proven track record of running, debugging, and resolving issues in production cloud environments.
• Strong experience owning and delivering end-to-end complex technical projects.
• Proficiency in Python and React (TypeScript preferred).
• Solid understanding of backend systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), and frontend development.
• Demonstrated ability to disambiguate complex or unclear problem areas and turn them into concrete plans.
• Experience mentoring engineers and shaping engineering best practices.
• Familiarity with fast-paced, startup environments and unstructured workflows.
• Bonus: Background in developer tooling or helping teams adopt CI/CD and cloud best practices.

Our engineering culture

• Taking ownership
• Being proactive and collaborative
• Delivering high quality technical contributions
• Working on the right things
• Communicating openly and clearly
• Participate actively
• Showing empathy and compassion
• No-ego feedback culture

Our values at LocalStack

• Care: We create with compassion, prioritizing empathy and understanding in every interaction. We foster an environment where people thrive and impactful work flourishes.
• Ownership: We own the outcome, taking responsibility for our work and its impact. We promote autonomy, ambition, and empowerment.
• Openness: We build trust through open communication and honest feedback, embracing diverse perspectives to strengthen our teams.
• Courage: We dare to innovate, embracing challenges, taking risks, and learning from setbacks.
• Excellence: We pursue excellence by pushing boundaries, delivering results beyond the ordinary, and approaching tasks with purpose and passion.

Benefits

• Fully remote
• Competitive salary
• Performance bonus
• Share options
• Annual company retreat
• Top-quality equipment
• Learning budget

Why Join LocalStack?

Join us to shape cloud DevX, work on cutting-edge technology, and influence a product used by thousands of developers worldwide. Lead a critical engineering function in a fast-growing, open-source-driven company with a global customer base.

Interested? Apply via LinkedIn or our careers page with a short motivation letter. We aim to respond within 2 weeks, but due to high volume, personalized feedback may not be possible.