Full-Stack Engineer: React/Node in Cloud Microservices

Aquent; East Moline (IL); On-site; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent Studios partners with leading enterprises to deliver scalable, cloud-based customer-facing web applications. The role involves shaping frontend and backend features, collaborating across cross‑functional teams, and delivering high‑performing, secure solutions in a modern micro frontend and microservices environment.

You will own hands‑on development, testing, and deployment, while aligning with business goals and ensuring robust performance and reliability in a fast-paced, collaborative

Qualifications

• Proficient in ReactJS and TypeScript for modular UI components in a micro frontend setup.
• Strong NodeJS experience for RESTful APIs in microservices.
• Experience with GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and GitHub repos.
• Ability to securely consume and expose APIs across frontend and backend.
• Hands-on with AWS cloud services (ECS Fargate, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Proficient in PostgreSQL databases.
• Familiar with unit/integration testing frameworks such as RTL, JUnit, Bruno.
• Experience with Playwright for automated testing.
• Knowledge of monitoring/logging tools like Datadog or CloudWatch.
• Experience working in Agile environments using Jira/Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers and tech leads to analyze requirements and implement features.
• Coordinate development efforts across teams to deliver new capabilities.
• Write, test, and deploy code delivering moderately complex functionality for key product areas.
• Contribute to continuous improvement, boosting system performance and reliability.
• Lead resolution of medium-to-difficult technical challenges and complex problems.
• Drive production issue resolutions while meeting SLAs.

Skills

ReactJS & TypeScript

NodeJS

CI/CD with GitHub Actions

API integration

PostgreSQL

Testing with RTL/JUnit/Bruno

Playwright testing

Monitoring with Datadog/CloudWatch

Agile with Jira/Confluence

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS ECS Fargate

DynamoDB

Datadog

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Aquent Studios partners with leading enterprises to deliver scalable, cloud-based customer-facing web applications. The role involves shaping frontend and backend features, collaborating across cross‑functional teams, and delivering high‑performing, secure solutions in a modern micro frontend and microservices environment.

You will own hands‑on development, testing, and deployment, while aligning with business goals and ensuring robust performance and reliability in a fast-paced, collaborative