Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Build, Mentor, Scale Platforms

Motion Recruitment; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build a scalable platform for personal loans, using Node.js, React, and TypeScript. You will own end-to-end features, write clean, tested, and well-documented code, and mentor teammates.

You’ll work with Next.js frontend, NestJS backend, PostgreSQL, Docker and AWS within a microservices architecture, delivering measurable business impact and high-quality software.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on with Node.js, React, and TypeScript.
• Full-stack ownership across frontend and backend.
• Experience owning CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production monitoring.
• Experience handling regulated data (PII/PIFI) responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Taking ideas from problem statements to shipped, measurable outcomes.
• Working directly with product and business partners to make tradeoffs that actually matter.
• Measuring success by impact: conversion, adoption, reliability, and real user outcomes.

Skills

Node.js

React

TypeScript

Full-stack ownership

CI/CD pipelines

Automated testing

Production monitoring

Observability

PII handling

Architectural decisions

Frontend & Backend

Tools

Docker

AWS

PostgreSQL

TypeORM

Next.js

NestJS

Job description

Motion Recruitment seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build a scalable platform for personal loans, using Node.js, React, and TypeScript. You will own end-to-end features, write clean, tested, and well-documented code, and mentor teammates.

You’ll work with Next.js frontend, NestJS backend, PostgreSQL, Docker and AWS within a microservices architecture, delivering measurable business impact and high-quality software.