Senior Fullstack Engineer

Nimble; Calabasas (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nimble in Calabasas, CA is building a brand-new, shared native app component platform for its North America team. You will own the backend backbone, building data proxies, unified data sources, caching, and the auth/security layer, working closely with an Austria-based engineering group.

This role is backend-heavy, with some frontend CMS work and occasional CMS tasks. Strong English communication is essential as you’ll interact with clients and cross-functional teams across time zones.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development with backend focus
• Excellent English communication and cross-functional collaboration
• Production experience with Node.js and NestJS
• Solid caching, authentication/authorization and security experience
• Experience building data proxy layers or unifying disparate data sources
• Relational databases experience (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and query optimization
• Hands-on AWS experience (S3, EC2, ECS, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, Lambda)
• Experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines
• Frontend familiarity with React/Next.js is a plus

Skills

Node.js

NestJS

Caching

Authentication/Authorization

Data integration

PostgreSQL

MySQL

AWS

GitHub Actions / CI/CD

React

Next.js

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

GraphQL

Job description

# Senior Fullstack EngineerSummaryOur client is standing up a brand-new shared native app component platform for its North America team, and you'd own the backend backbone of it. This role is backend-heavy: you'll build the data proxies, unified data sources, caching, and auth/security layer the platform depends on, working closely with the client's engineering team in Austria. Frontend comfort is a real plus here, not the main event — some custom CMS work is also expected.Requirements (Must-Haves)\\* Excellent English communication skills — you'll interact directly with clients and cross-functional teams, including close day-to-day collaboration with an Austria-based engineering team\\* 8+ years of professional software development experience, with proven depth on the backend\\* Advanced proficiency in Node.js and NestJS for production backend services\\* Real, hands-on experience with caching strategies, authentication/authorization, and application security\\* Experience building data proxy layers or unifying multiple/disparate data sources into a single consistent API\\* Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) — data modeling and query optimization\\* Hands-on AWS experience: S3, EC2, ECS, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, Lambda\\* Experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipeline management\\* Comfortable being one of the first engineers on a brand-new platform team, where architecture, conventions, and process aren't fully defined yetRequirements (Nice-to-Haves)\\* Frontend comfort with React and Next.js — you won't be leading frontend work, but you can pick it up when needed\\*Experience with a headless or custom CMS (Contentful, Strapi, Sanity, or similar) — some custom CMS work is expected in this role\\* Microservices architecture experience\\* Docker and containerization experience\\* GraphQL experience\\* Experience working with distributed, cross-border engineering teams across time zones\\* Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation)\\* Testing framework familiarity (Jest, Mocha, Cypress)\\* Agile/Scrum experience in a fast-moving, still-forming teamBonus Points\\*Experience in a \"platform incubation\" or 0-to-1 internal tooling context — building something from scratch that later spins out into its own team\\*Prior consulting or agency background, comfortable working as an embedded contractor inside a client's internal team\\* Contributions to open-source projects