React/.NET Developer 16669

ZealHire Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. in Houston, TX seeks a senior full-stack developer to design, build, and scale enterprise applications using Node.js, Java, Python, and cloud-native AWS services.

You will develop RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures with a focus on security, observability, and maintainability across inflight products. Collaboration with product, UX, and engineering partners is essential for delivering high-quality software.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong backend development experience using Node.js, Java, Python, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs and distributed services.
• Experience designing production solutions using AWS or another major cloud platform.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and OO design principles.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern DevOps practices.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, API security, secure coding, and application security.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable applications and services.
• Develop backend services and APIs using Node.js, Java, Python, or comparable enterprise frameworks.
• Design and integrate RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven services, and enterprise integrations.
• Develop reusable components and common services across inflight products.
• Modernize legacy capabilities while working within enterprise applications.

Skills

Full-stack development

REST APIs

DevOps

Communication

Tools

Node.js

Java

Python

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

ZealHire. Houston, Texas, United States Contract Deadline: Nov 19, 2026

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable applications and services.
• Develop backend services and APIs using technologies such as Node.js, Java, Python, or comparable enterprise frameworks.
• Design and integrate RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven services, and enterprise integrations.
• Develop reusable components and common services that can be leveraged across multiple inflight products.
• Work effectively within existing enterprise applications and safely modernize legacy capabilities.

Mobile & Frontline Experiences

• Develop solutions optimized for mobile and tablet experiences used by frontline employees.
• Build resilient experiences that account for limited connectivity, intermittent networks, data synchronization, and operational environments.
• Consider usability, accessibility, performance, battery/network utilization, and device constraints when designing solutions.
• Collaborate with UX and product partners to translate frontline workflows into simple digital experiences.
• Design and develop cloud-native services using AWS or comparable cloud platforms.
• Build scalable APIs, serverless services, microservices, asynchronous processing, and data integrations.
• Apply modern architectural patterns that improve scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and observability.
• Participate in architecture reviews and technical design decisions.
• Contribute to modernization efforts and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

Modern senior full-stack roles increasingly combine frontend/backend engineering with AWS architectures, API/microservice patterns, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, containerization, automated testing, and production optimization. Senior Full Stack Developer – React, Node, AWS & Agentic AI

DevSecOps & Operational Excellence

• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement unit, integration, API, and automated end-to-end testing.
• Incorporate security throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Support production deployments, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.
• Use application telemetry and observability to proactively identify reliability and performance issues.
• Conduct code reviews and promote engineering standards across the team.
• Design solutions with resiliency and operational supportability in mind.

Data, Analytics & AI

• Instrument applications to capture meaningful adoption, feature usage, performance, and user-interaction telemetry.
• Partner with product teams to ensure technology decisions can be informed by measurable product data.
• Integrate AI-powered capabilities and enterprise AI services where appropriate.
• Develop APIs and services that enable AI assistants, search, summarization, and workflow automation.
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to accelerate development, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.

AI-assisted development is also appearing in senior engineering expectations, including tools such as GitHub Copilot and managed AI platforms such as AWS Bedrock. Senior Full Stack Developer – React, Node, AWS & Agentic AI

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, with significant hands-on full-stack development experience.
• Strong backend development experience using Node.js, Java, Python, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs and distributed services.
• Experience designing production solutions using AWS or another major cloud platform.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and object-oriented/design principles.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern DevOps practices.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, API security, secure coding, and application security.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production applications.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with product, architecture, UX, engineering, and business partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing enterprise mobile applications using React Native, iOS/Swift, or comparable technologies.
• Experience supporting frontline, field, airline, travel, transportation, or other operational applications.
• AWS certification or equivalent cloud experience.
• Experience with serverless and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Experience implementing application telemetry and product analytics.
• Experience integrating generative AI, LLM APIs, RAG/search solutions, or enterprise AI services.
• Experience with offline-first application patterns and synchronization.
• Experience with accessibility standards and building inclusive digital experiences.

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