Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Architect & Scale APIs

Arch Global Services Philippines; Manila; Remote; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Arch Global Services Philippines is seeking a passionate Senior Full Stack Engineer. You will work across frontend and backend, contributing to React/Angular applications and Node.js microservices powering Thimble's platform and external APIs.

You’ll help shape technical strategy, influence architecture, and partner with product and growth teams to translate business objectives into reliable, scalable software in event-driven, distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional full stack development experience, with a track record of leading system design on complex, high-scale platforms.
• Proven ability to define architectural principles and drive engineering best practices across a team.
• Experience making high-impact design decisions with clear reasoning around trade-offs — scalability vs. cost, performance vs. maintainability.
• Strong data modeling skills — designing schemas and structures that are clean, efficient, and built to scale.
• Experience with Node.js and MongoDB in production microservices.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end system design for complex, high-scale backend platforms — owning the full lifecycle from requirements through implementation and iteration
• Define architectural principles and engineering best practices that raise the quality bar across the team
• Make high-impact design decisions involving deliberate trade-offs between scalability, performance, cost, and long-term maintainability
• Design data models that are well-structured, efficient, and built to evolve alongside the product
• Design, develop, and maintain full stack features across React/Angular frontends and Node.js backend microservices
• Build and evolve RESTful and event-driven APIs — both internal services and external-facing APIs consumed by partners
• Work with MongoDB to design schemas, write efficient queries, and manage data at scale
• Develop and maintain event-driven workflows using AWS SNS and SQS to manage asynchronous system flows
• Instrument services with monitoring and observability tooling — setting up metrics, alerts, dashboards, and distributed tracing
• Investigate and resolve complex bugs and production incidents end-to-end — from the UI down to the service layer
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers across the stack

Skills

Full stack development

System design leadership

Node.js

MongoDB

React/Angular

AWS

Observability

Testing

Tools

CircleCI

Playwright

Sentry

CloudWatch

AWS SNS/SQS

Job description

Arch Global Services Philippines is seeking a passionate Senior Full Stack Engineer. You will work across frontend and backend, contributing to React/Angular applications and Node.js microservices powering Thimble's platform and external APIs.

You’ll help shape technical strategy, influence architecture, and partner with product and growth teams to translate business objectives into reliable, scalable software in event-driven, distributed systems.