Senior AI-Native Full-Stack Engineer (Next.js/AWS)

Talentify; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its innovation team in a role that blends front-end and back-end development, AI-driven workflows, and scalable production systems. You will own features end-to-end, design scalable UI with Next.js/React, and architect services on AWS with EKS.

You will collaborate with product, design, data, and business stakeholders to translate needs into robust technical solutions, while mentoring peers and advancing architectural choices that balance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building production full-stack software across front end and back end.
• Front end: hands-on experience with Next.js or React and a NestJS GraphQL integration layer.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating applications on AWS with Amazon EKS / Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of software design, system architecture, testing, observability, and maintainability.
• Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous problems and collaborate effectively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own full-stack features from problem definition through design, implementation, release, measurement, and iteration.
• Design and implement scalable front-end solutions using Next.js or React with a NestJS GraphQL integration layer.
• Architect, deploy, and operate applications on AWS and Amazon EKS through CI/CD pipelines.
• Use AI tools and agentic development workflows to increase engineering speed, improve quality, and raise the bar for how the team builds software.
• Partner with product, design, data, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous business needs into reliable technical solutions.
• Contribute to architecture and technical strategy decisions that balance speed, scalability, maintainability, and business impact.
• Collaborate effectively across distributed engineering teams.
• Mentor other engineers by sharing patterns, improving team workflows, and modeling high ownership.

Skills

5+ years experience

Full-stack development

Ambiguity handling

Cross-team collaboration

Quality mindset

AI-aware development

Tools

Next.js

React

NestJS GraphQL

GraphQL

AWS

Kubernetes / EKS

Job description

Rocket is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its innovation team in a role that blends front-end and back-end development, AI-driven workflows, and scalable production systems. You will own features end-to-end, design scalable UI with Next.js/React, and architect services on AWS with EKS.

You will collaborate with product, design, data, and business stakeholders to translate needs into robust technical solutions, while mentoring peers and advancing architectural choices that balance