Remote Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Node/React)

Kake; Pennsylvania; Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Growth Fund

Social Impact Community

Job summary

Kake is a remote-first, people-first global community of senior engineers. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Node/React) to design and deliver scalable features across the stack, from backend APIs to frontend interfaces.

You will own core components, collaborate with product and design, and ship reliable software in a distributed, remote environment. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Node.js/React skills, and a proven ability to design APIs, with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with hands-on work in Node.js and React.
• Hands-on experience designing and versioning REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with modern git workflows, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong system-design instincts: data modelling, component architecture, and event-driven thinking.
• Comfortable with relational databases and SQL, plus familiarity with NoSQL such as MongoDB.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production features end-to-end across Node.js backends and React frontends, owning your work from implementation through deployment.
• Design, build, and version REST or GraphQL APIs that serve as the contract between frontend and backend systems.
• Make architecture decisions around data modelling, service boundaries, and component design, applying event-driven thinking where it fits.
• Model and query data across relational and NoSQL stores, choosing the right database and structure for each use case.
• Write clean, well-tested code and set up the observability needed to catch and debug issues in live systems.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Node.js

React

REST/GraphQL APIs

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

CI/CD & Git workflows

SQL & NoSQL databases

English communication

Remote independent work

Tools

Node.js

React

REST APIs

GraphQL

CI/CD

GCP

AWS

Azure

SQL

MongoDB

Job description

Kake is a remote-first, people-first global community of senior engineers. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Node/React) to design and deliver scalable features across the stack, from backend APIs to frontend interfaces.

You will own core components, collaborate with product and design, and ship reliable software in a distributed, remote environment. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Node.js/React skills, and a proven ability to design APIs, with