Senior Full Stack Developer (Engineer 3 level)

Vertage; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertage seeks a Senior Full Stack Developer in Dearborn, MI to own end-to-end development of scalable applications. You will work across React front ends and Java/Spring Boot microservices on Google Cloud Platform, influencing architecture, testing, and CI/CD standards.

The role blends deep front-end, back-end, and cloud DevOps, with an emphasis on production-ready features and cross-functional collaboration. In-person interviews may be required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT with 6+ years in software development.
• Practical proficiency in two coding languages, or advanced in one.
• Experience with GCP deployment and management.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience.
• Frontend experience: React or Angular with HTML/CSS, plus REST APIs.
• CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable full stack apps across UI, service, and DB layers.
• Build RESTful microservices with Java and Spring Boot.
• Develop responsive front-end apps using React or Angular, HTML/CSS.
• Run cloud-native solutions on GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Terraform).
• Own testing approach: TDD/BDD, API load testing, UI automation.
• Tune JVM performance and profiling.
• Collaborate with product managers to break solutions into incremental user stories.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and code reviews using Tekton, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fossa, GitHub.

Skills

GCP

Spring Boot

React

RESTful APIs

Acceptance Testing

Node.js

HTML5/CSS

GitHub

Jenkins CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job title: Senior Full Stack Developer (Engineer 3 level)

Location: Dearborn, MI (iTek Center West)

Role Overview

This is a senior hands-on engineering role building and maintaining full stack applications, from React front ends to Java and Spring Boot microservices to the database layer, all running on Google Cloud Platform. The engineer will work with product managers and cross-functional teams to turn business needs into production-ready features. They will also help set architecture, testing, and CI/CD standards for the team. The mix of deep front-end, back-end, GCP, and DevOps expectations is uncommon in one profile (hard to find). The customer may request in-person interviews.

3. Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable full stack applications across the UI, service, and database layers.
• Build and consume RESTful microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Develop responsive front-end applications using React (with Redux) or Angular, plus HTML and CSS.
• Build and run cloud-native solutions on GCP, using services such as Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, and Memory Store for Redis, with infrastructure managed in Terraform.
• Own the testing approach: TDD, BDD, regression, API load and performance testing, and UI/end-to-end automation with Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.
• Tune application performance, including JVM tuning and profiling.
• Work with product managers to break solutions into incremental, production-ready user stories.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and team best practices, using tools such as Tekton, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fossa, and GitHub.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

• 8+ years in IT, including 6+ years in software development.
• Practical proficiency in two coding languages, or advanced proficiency in one.

Technical Skills:

• GCP: building, deploying, and supporting apps (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, IAM) (hard to find at this depth alongside the rest of the stack)
• Spring Boot
• React
• RESTful API design and development
• Acceptance Testing
• Node.js
• HTML5 and CSS (the requisition describes advanced, standards-setting depth in one place)
• GitHub
• Jenkins: end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, declarative Jenkinsfiles, multi-branch pipelines (hard to find)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI-based development
• TypeScript
• CI/CD and automation familiarity
• DevOps methodologies
• Unix/Linux and shell scripting
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Redis (working knowledge)
• Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (adjacent; listed in responsibilities but not in the skills list)
• Angular as an alternative to React (adjacent; named in responsibilities only)