Senior Full Stack Engineer
iMentor
Get more replies from employers
Send a job-specific resume in minutes.
Benefits offered by this job
Job summary
Qualifications
- 7+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ in a senior role.
- Expertise in MERN stack with a focus on back-end.
- Strong knowledge of AWS services and DevOps practices.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain complex back-end features.
- Develop secure and scalable APIs.
- Implement caching and performance improvements.
- Mentor junior staff effectively.
Skills
Education
Tools
Job description
This range is provided by iMentor. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
$160,000.00/yr - $160,000.00/yr
This is a six-month contract role with the possibility of being brought on full time at the end of the contract.
iMentor seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer with a key focus on back-end application development and DevOps infrastructure to design, build, and optimize scalable solutions across our ecosystem. This role combines high-level software engineering (MERN stack) with cloud infrastructure design (AWS ECS, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront) to deliver enterprise-grade features and maintain secure, high-performing systems. The engineer will report to iMentor’s Senior Director of Engineering and collaborate with Product and Design teams. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the evolution of a national platform serving 8,000+ students and mentors.
The iMentor proprietary platform powers a dynamic ecosystem that includes volunteer intake, learning spaces, intelligent automation, and integrations with internal services. The Senior Engineer will drive innovation in system architecture, lead performance optimization efforts, and ensure high availability and security across all environments.
- Design, build, and maintain complex back-end features using Node.js and Express, integrating with MongoDB Atlas and other data services.
- Develop secure and scalable APIs to support web and mobile applications.
- Ensure code quality through automated testing, peer reviews, and adherence to best practices.
- Implement caching, query optimization, and performance improvements at the application level.
- Mentor junior staff with patience and curiosity, helping others grow.
- Play a key role in architectural decisions, collaborate closely to translate needs into technical solutions, and proactively identify and communicate tradeoffs and risks.
- Refactor legacy code for improved performance, maintainability, and scalability.
- Manage and optimize AWS environments including ECS, Fargate, Lambda, and CloudFront.
- Oversee CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments (Docker), and infrastructure automation.
- Monitor application health and performance using New Relic or CloudWatch; respond to production incidents with steadiness, efficiency, and clear thinking.
- Champion best practices for cloud security, compliance, and cost management.
- Lead DevOps improvements such as blue/green deployments, auto-scaling, and resilience strategies.
- Value inclusive collaboration as much as technical excellence.
- 7+ years of professional engineering experience, including 3+ years in a senior or lead role.
- Strong expertise in MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React.js, Node.js) with a focus on back-end development.
- Experience designing and maintaining secure, high-performance APIs for production systems.
- Strong knowledge of AWS services (ECS, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront) and DevOps best practices.
- Proficiency with containerization (Docker), orchestration, and CI/CD automation.
- Linux administration and scripting skills (Bash or equivalent).
- Familiarity with secure handling of PII and compliance standards.
- AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer certification preferred.
- Experience with Python for automation or API scripting.
- Familiarity with machine learning/AI frameworks.
- Knowledge of Redshift or other analytical database systems.
- Salary: $160,000/year, prorated based on the duration of employment.
- Contract Term: Six-month contract with the possibility of extension or conversion to a permanent role.
- Up to 100% employer-funded comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
- Employee-paid vision plan offered.
- Vacation accrual based on 18 days annually, paid holidays + your birthday + one floating holiday, holiday closure between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day, plus paid sick days accrual.
- 401K match up to 4%.
- Flexible Home/Office/School working arrangement.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
- Dependent day care and healthcare flexible spending plans.
- 1 hour of wellness time off per week for wellness activities of your choosing.
- Flexible personnel wellness budget for reimbursements or marketplace purchases.
- Work Location: Hybrid; candidates within a commutable distance to NYC are preferred. Alignment with iMentor’s work location policy is required.
- Work Schedule: Flexibility to collaborate across multiple time zones, including with offshore teams in Eastern Europe, is necessary.
- We welcome applicants from non-traditional engineering backgrounds.
iMentor believes that all students deserve an equitable chance to pursue their ambitions. Our program builds authentic mentoring relationships to bring greater equity to students’ educational journeys. Through these long-term relationships, first-generation students and students of color from underserved communities increase their access to knowledge, experiences, and resources required to succeed in college or their post-secondary pathway.
By partnering with public schools serving primarily first-generation college students and providing every student in the school with a mentor, iMentor supports students’ post-secondary journeys with depth and personalization. iMentor’s students are 37% more likely to enroll in college and are graduating college at double the rates of their peers.
We believe that people of all backgrounds deserve equal access to educational opportunities. We are committed to addressing the economic and racial divides that impact the communities we serve, and to the collective work necessary to move toward educational equity and inclusion. Learn more at www.iMentor.org.
Visit www.imentor.org/jobs to submit a resume describing your interest in and qualifications for this position, as well as a sample of something you’ve built (please submit a public Github URI or portfolio link with snippets on your contribution to the project). Applications will be considered on a rolling basis; apply as soon as possible.
iMentor is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Mid-Senior level
- Contract
- Engineering and Information Technology
- Non-profit Organization Management
We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.
'/%3e%3cpath%20d='M101.744%2012.4726L102.894%2016.1947L99.0021%2013.2201L101.744%2012.4726ZM105.3%208.40937H100.488L99.0026%203.59473L97.5116%208.41047L92.7%208.40385L96.5965%2011.3834L95.1055%2016.1942L99.0021%2013.2196L101.408%2011.3834L105.3%208.40992V8.40937Z'%20fill='white'/%3e%3cdefs%3e%3clinearGradient%20id='paint0_linear_5593_1381'%20x1='90'%20y1='9.44471'%20x2='99'%20y2='9.44471'%20gradientUnits='userSpaceOnUse'%3e%3cstop%20stop-color='%2300AD70'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='0.998594'%20stop-color='%2300B67A'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='1'%20stop-color='%23DCDCE6'/%3e%3c/linearGradient%3e%3c/defs%3e%3c/svg%3e){kind=small}
