Senior Full-Stack Developer

Downstream; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 85,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Developer to drive technical excellence within their CMS team in Portland. This role focuses on transitioning to a zero-defect development methodology and improving overall development efficiency. Candidates should have 5+ years of full-stack experience and strong collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years full stack development experience
• Expertise in various programming languages, including Rust
• Solid understanding of software architecture

Responsibilities

• Write code and maintain the API server
• Contribute to the Vue.js frontend and Node.js reverse proxy
• Review all changes to the CMS source code daily

Skills

Collaboration

Attention to Detail

Technical Communication

Job description

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The Downstream CMS Team’s Senior Full-Stack Developer drives technical excellence

across the team. The mission is to radically simplify the application and lay the cultural and

technical foundation of our zero-defect methodology in 2026.

Outcomes

- Transition Bridge to a zero-defect development methodology in the first 6 months.

o Achieve a defect rate of less than 25 per 1,000 lines of code across authored and approved code.

o Fix three times as many defects as created

o Fix all newly discovered defects within three months of discovery

- Achieve a 5x improvement in development efficiency, as measured in cost per unit of

functionality, in the first 12 months.

- Elevate our SDLC from a managed process to a defined process within 12 months, by implementing technical controls such as improvements to our work tracker and continuous integration, and by writing and socializing process improvements.

Responsibilities

- Write lots of code as maintainer and primary developer of our API server (Rust, MongoDB).

- Bring the team together to architect technical solutions to Downstream’s business needs and

- Improve CI/CD tooling, linting/coverage, and other tooling as appropriate, across our stack.

- Review all changes to CMS source code, once per day. Drive quality improvement and enforce best practices.

- Provide tier 2 technical support for issues impacting all CMSes, including legacy systems. Meet

with clients’ technical staff as needed.

- Contribute to our Vue.js frontend application, Node.js reverse proxy, and legacy PHP

applications as needed and available.

Qualifications

- 5+ years full stack development experience.

- Expertise in a wide variety of programming languages. The API server is Rust; our other code is

- Solid understanding of software architecture.

- Outstanding attention to detail.

- Collaboration-oriented style with excellent English-language technical communication skills.

- Commitment to operational excellence.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Design Services

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