Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Jobtailor; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior software engineer to build and evolve core platform services with a strong focus on microservices and modern frontend development using React and TypeScript.

The role requires delivering backend services and frontend applications, mentoring engineers, and participating in on-call rotations while driving data quality and architecture decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant delivery of both backend services and frontend applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve core platform services.
• Own microservices that power product information management.
• Design delightful internal tools for merchants and buyers using React-based applications.
• Drive data quality at scale with validation, canonicalization, and entity resolution capabilities.
• Participate in on-call rotations and build observability into every service.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and mentor engineers on the team.

Skills

Java

TypeScript

React

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Communication

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Information Systems Engineering

Master's Degree in Data Engineering

Tools

Java

PostgreSQL

Kafka

TypeScript

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

• Build and evolve core platform services.
• Own microservices that power product information management.
• Design delightful internal tools for merchants and buyers using React-based applications.
• Drive data quality at scale with validation, canonicalization, and entity resolution capabilities.
• Participate in on-call rotations and build observability into every service.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and mentor engineers on the team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant delivery of both backend services and frontend applications.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Engineering, or Data Engineering.
• Strong verbal, written, and diagramming communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficient in more than one programming language.
• Comfortable designing and building microservices in Java, working with relational databases (PostgreSQL), and integrating with event-driven architectures (Kafka).
• Modern frontend skills with production React applications using TypeScript.
• Comfortable working with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes) and defining infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Understanding of tradeoffs of eventual consistency and service-oriented architecture.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building and evolving core platform services, with a strong focus on microservices architecture and modern frontend development using React and TypeScript. Capable of mentoring engineers and driving data quality through effective validation and entity resolution techniques.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Microservices Development
• React Application Development
• Java Programming
• Data Quality Management
• Containerization with Docker

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Software Engineering
• Backend Services
• Frontend Applications
• Java
• PostgreSQL
• Kafka
• TypeScript
• Terraform
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Soft Skills

• Verbal Communication
• Written Communication
• Diagramming Skills

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
• Master's Degree in Information Systems Engineering
• Master's Degree in Data Engineering

Industry Keywords

• Microservices
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Service-Oriented Architecture
• Data Validation
• Entity Resolution