Remote Senior Next.js Engineer — AWS, Caching & Equity

Far Coder; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

The Motley Fool is hiring a remote Senior Software Engineer to own the server-side and infrastructure for Fool.com, focusing on Next.js, TypeScript, and API integrations. This full-time role is USA-based, with a strong emphasis on performance, caching, and reliability to support millions of readers and crawlers.

You will work across SEO, content, and platform teams, contributing to a scalable, observable backend while leveraging modern tooling and AI-assisted development workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on the server side of a production web application.
• Strong TypeScript and Next.js experience, including the App Router, server components, route handlers, ISR, and streaming.
• Experience integrating third-party APIs, with robust error handling and resiliency.
• Solid caching and CDN understanding (Redis and Cloudflare).
• Proficient in AWS, Docker, and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Familiarity with SEO considerations for crawlers and structured data.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain server-side features in our Next.js App Router codebase using TypeScript — route handlers, server components, server actions, streaming, ISR, and revalidation strategy.
• Design and harden integrations with the third-party APIs that power our content, market data, and subscription experiences.
• Own caching strategy across Redis and Cloudflare, balancing freshness against performance, cost, and crawler behavior.
• Deploy and operate services on AWS using Docker, with first-class instrumentation in DataDog so we catch issues before our readers and crawlers do.
• Write meaningful end-to-end coverage with Microsoft Playwright for the flows that matter most.
• Optimize the site for the way it's actually consumed by SEO crawlers: rendering strategy, structured data, sitemap generation, canonicalization, hreflang, robots directives, performance budgets, and crawl budget management.
• Partner with our front-end engineers on the seam between server and client, and collaborate with content, marketing, SEO, and platform teams across the company.
• Use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor) as a core part of your daily workflow — we have a company-wide commitment to use the latest tooling and workflows to make every person as impactful as possible.
• Integrate with our CMS for content management.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

Next.js

CI/CD

Redis

Java

AWS

Tools

Docker

REST

Cypress

Excel

Job description

The Motley Fool is hiring a remote Senior Software Engineer to own the server-side and infrastructure for Fool.com, focusing on Next.js, TypeScript, and API integrations. This full-time role is USA-based, with a strong emphasis on performance, caching, and reliability to support millions of readers and crawlers.

You will work across SEO, content, and platform teams, contributing to a scalable, observable backend while leveraging modern tooling and AI-assisted development workflows.