Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Remote (Node/React)

Kake; Alabama; Remote; USD 140,000 - 196,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Better Me Fund

Compassion is Badass

Job summary

Kake is a remote-first company seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer (Node/React) to design, build, and ship scalable features for millions of users. You will own services end-to-end, from API design to deployment, collaborating with product and design in a fast-paced, remote environment.

The role emphasizes architecture decisions, data modelling, and observability, with a strong focus on delivering reliable, well-crafted software for a global community of engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with hands-on work in Node.js and React.
• Hands-on experience designing and versioning REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with modern git workflows, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong system-design instincts: data modelling, component architecture, and event-driven thinking.
• Comfortable with relational databases and SQL, plus familiarity with NoSQL such as MongoDB or similar.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills across distributed systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production features end-to-end across Node.js backends and React frontends, owning your work from implementation through deployment.
• Design, build, and version REST or GraphQL APIs that serve as the contract between frontend and backend systems.
• Make architecture decisions around data modelling, service boundaries, and component design, applying event-driven thinking where it fits.
• Model and query data across relational and NoSQL stores, choosing the right database and structure for each use case.
• Write clean, well-tested code and set up the observability needed to catch and debug issues in live systems.

Skills

Node.js

React

API design

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

SQL

NoSQL

English communication

Remote work

Tools

Git

Job description

Kake is a remote-first company seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer (Node/React) to design, build, and ship scalable features for millions of users. You will own services end-to-end, from API design to deployment, collaborating with product and design in a fast-paced, remote environment.

The role emphasizes architecture decisions, data modelling, and observability, with a strong focus on delivering reliable, well-crafted software for a global community of engineers.