Senior Full Stack Software Engineer / Node.js / React / TypeScript

Kelly Services; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a scalable platform that originates personal loans. You will write clean, tested, and well-documented code using Node.js, React, and TypeScript, and mentor other engineers while driving end-to-end product and technical initiatives.

You will own features from problem statements to shipped outcomes, collaborate with product and business partners, and measure success by conversion, adoption, reliability, and user impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building, shipping, and supporting production software using Node.js, React, and TypeScript.
• Full-stack ownership 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) responsibly and intentionally.

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

Code review

Mentoring

Observability

Tools

Next.js

NestJS

PostgreSQL

TypeORM

Docker

AWS

GitHub

Nx Monorepo

Job description

$1 - $1

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, setting engineering 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.

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.