Senior Full-Stack Engineer: AI-Driven Backend Leader

Sound Decisions; Manila; Hybrid; PHP 8,822,000 - 14,493,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401k and Roth IRA match

Unlimited vacation

Team travel for in-person events

Workspace and WFH expense reimburse

Job summary

Sound Decisions seeks a seasoned software engineer to design and build scalable production systems. You will contribute across frontend, backend, APIs, and data, applying strong functional programming skills (Scala) and modern TypeScript for web apps.

You will lead architectural decisions, mentor junior engineers as you grow into management, and ensure robust testing, documentation, and code reviews while embracing agile practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of Scala or another functional programming language and ability to apply functional concepts in production.
• Full-stack development across frontend, backend, APIs, data, and integrations.
• Experience developing with TypeScript and familiarity with modern web application development.
• A firm foundation in computer science principles and a decent level of maturity in AI coding tools.
• The ability to manage up and a desire to later on develop your management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop software across multiple projects and languages.
• Maintain existing systems and deliver new features in a full-stack capacity.
• Translate customer, product, and business workflow needs into practical technical solutions.
• Prototype new products and integrations, including reference implementations and UML-based integration mappings.
• Design and implement maintainable APIs, user-facing functionality, and supporting services.
• Create and maintain clear User Guides, API documentation, reference implementation documentation, and technical decisions.
• Write unit, functional, and automated tests and use them to maintain confidence in releases.
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, design exploration, coding, debugging, documentation, and test creation while validating all generated output.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback that improves quality and team learning.
• Follow the concepts of an agile process, including iterative delivery, prioritization, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate clearly with engineering, product, solutions, sales, and other stakeholders.

Skills

10+ years exp

Scala

Full-stack

TypeScript

CS fundamentals

Managing up

Managing down

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Sound Decisions seeks a seasoned software engineer to design and build scalable production systems. You will contribute across frontend, backend, APIs, and data, applying strong functional programming skills (Scala) and modern TypeScript for web apps.

You will lead architectural decisions, mentor junior engineers as you grow into management, and ensure robust testing, documentation, and code reviews while embracing agile practices.