Senior Full-Stack Engineer: End-to-End Node React TS

Motion Recruitment; Detroit (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC in Detroit is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build a scalable platform for personal loans. You will write clean, tested, and well-documented code using Node.js, React, and TypeScript, and provide peer reviews to mentor other engineers.

You will own meaningful product and technical initiatives end to end, lead by example, and raise the bar on quality while keeping things simple when possible.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with Node.js, React, and TypeScript.
• Full-stack engineer owning features end to end across frontend and backend.
• Confident making architectural decisions and tradeoffs.
• Experience owning CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, production monitoring and observability, and post-production support and iteration.
• Experience handling regulated or sensitive data (PII/PIFI).

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Node.js

React

TypeScript

Full-stack

CI/CD pipelines

Automated testing

Observability

PII handling

Tools

Next.js

NestJS

PostgreSQL

TypeORM

Docker

AWS

Microservices

GitHub

Nx Monorepo

Job description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working on an innovative and scalable platform that originates personal loans. Using your experience in software development to write clean, tested, and well-documented code using Node.js, React, and TypeScript, as well as provide peer code review and mentor other engineers on the team. You will own meaningful product and technical initiatives end to end.Lead by example, settingengineering standards and patterns through your work, not documents. Raise the bar on quality, pragmatism, and speed and bring depth when things get complex and simplicity when they don’t need to be.


Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with hands-on experience building, shipping, and supporting production software using Node.js, React, and TypeScript.
• You are a true full-stack engineer who owns features end to end across frontend and backend.
• You’re comfortable deep in the code and confident making architectural decisions and tradeoffs.
• Experience owning:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Automated testing
  • Production monitoring and observability
  • Post-production support and iteration
• Experience handling regulated or sensitive data (PII/PIFI) responsibly and intentionally.

What You Will Be Doing

• 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.

Client's Tech Stack and Architecture

• Frontend: Next.js
• Backend Framework: NestJS (Node.js, Typescript)
• Database: PostgreSQL with TypeORM
• Infrastructure: Docker & AWS
• Architecture: Microservices
• Codebase: Github & Nx Monorepo
• Observability: Amplitude, Sentry, Splunk, Dynatrace.