Software Engineer (Platform / Product)

Synapse Studios; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work in the US

Full-time employment

Ownership culture

Autonomy and continuous delivery

Job summary

Synapse Studios is seeking a hands-on software engineer to build and evolve a modern internal platform that supports enterprise software and AI-enabled products. The role centers on core platform capabilities, internal tools, and product-facing systems rather than ML research.

You will own features end-to-end—from design through deployment—contribute to system design discussions, and ship changes to production using CI/CD and trunk-based development.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals grounded in real systems work.
• Hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, and React with TypeScript.
• Familiarity with AWS, Docker, ECS, and Terraform for infrastructure and deployment.
• Experience with end-to-end testing tools such as Playwright.
• Comfort owning production systems and operating them with sound judgment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy high-quality software supporting internal platform development and customer-facing products.
• Take end-to-end ownership of features and services, from initial design through production operation.
• Contribute to system and software design discussions, reasoning about tradeoffs, boundaries, and long-term maintainability.
• Ship changes to production frequently using modern CI/CD pipelines and trunk-based development practices.
• Write automated tests across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers to support safe continuous delivery.
• Participate in and improve DevOps practices, including build pipelines, deployment automation, and environment consistency.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues using logs, metrics, and monitoring tools.
• Actively monitor the behavior of systems you build and respond when things break.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

React with TypeScript

CI/CD

Playwright

DevOps practices

End-to-end testing

Code quality

Tools

AWS

Docker

ECS

Terraform

Job description

Role overview

A hands-on software engineering role focused on building and evolving a modern internal platform that supports enterprise software and AI-enabled products. The position centers on core platform capabilities, internal tools, and product-facing systems rather than ML or research work. Success depends on strong engineering fundamentals, comfort with continuous delivery, and a willingness to own work from design through deployment in environments that value autonomy and judgment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy high-quality software supporting internal platform development and customer-facing products
• Take end-to-end ownership of features and services, from initial design through production operation
• Contribute to system and software design discussions, reasoning about tradeoffs, boundaries, and long-term maintainability
• Ship changes to production frequently using modern CI/CD pipelines and trunk-based development practices
• Write automated tests across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers to support safe continuous delivery
• Participate in and improve DevOps practices, including build pipelines, deployment automation, and environment consistency
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues using logs, metrics, and monitoring tools
• Actively monitor the behavior of systems you build and respond when things break

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals grounded in real systems work
• Hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, and React with TypeScript
• Familiarity with AWS, Docker, ECS, and Terraform for infrastructure and deployment
• Experience with end-to-end testing tools such as Playwright
• Comfort owning production systems and operating them with sound judgment

Nice to have

• Genuine enthusiasm for AI-assisted development workflows and tools, grounded in solid engineering practice rather than hype
• Experience reasoning about platform boundaries, abstraction layers, and long-term maintainability

Benefits and work setup

• Remote position based in the U.S., with a preference for candidates in Arizona
• Full-time employment with a culture centered on ownership, autonomy, and continuous delivery
• Engineers are trusted to ship real software, observe how it is used, learn from failures, and steadily improve it