Lead Full Stack Developer

We are seeking a Principal Full Stack Developer / Engineering Lead to define and drive the technical evolution of our platform, scaling it to support the next generation of our SaaS products. This is a hands-on leadership role at the intersection of architecture, system design, cloud infrastructure, and engineering leadership more about enabling and guiding teams than day-to-day feature delivery.What Youll DoSet the technical architecture — design distributed systems, service boundaries, integration patterns, and data flows for scalability, performance, and resilience.Lead design and architecture reviews, ensuring solutions align with long-term business and platform goals.Guide senior engineers in implementing backend services, APIs, and infrastructure with best practices and patterns.Drive scalability strategy — multi-region deployments, zero-downtime releases, resilience engineering, and disaster recovery.Shape data strategy — database selection, schema design, caching (Redis, CDN, edge compute), and event-driven architectures.Ensure frontend excellence through React / Next.Js architecture, state management, and component design.Advance DevOps maturity — AWS infra automation, CI / CD pipelines, observability, and reliability engineering.Elevate engineering standards — performance-first, secure-by-default, design-for-failure principles.What We’re Looking For12+ years of experience in software engineering, with several years as a Principal, Staff, or Lead Engineer.Proven experience at scale — architected or migrated event-driven, cloud-native SaaS applications, de-risked initiatives with Kubernetes, containers, serverless, and microservices.Talent development — hired and scaled distributed engineering teams, built processes for productivity, and codified engineering principles.Strong product & design sense — able to thrive in ambiguity, lead tech discoveries, manage tech debt, and deliver 01 products.Hands-on developer — contribute actively to backend (Node.Js / TypeScript, Rails) and frontend (React / Next.Js / React Native).DevOps & Analytics expertise — infra scaling, CDP, leveraging data for product conversion optimization.Performance optimization — query tuning, caching strategies, reducing latency in high-throughput systems.Innovation at scale — proven success integrating AI into both developer lifecycle and customer-facing products.Current & Evolving Tech StackBackend : Node.Js / TypeScript (evolving), Python, ServiceNowFrontend : Next.Js, React, React NativeCloud & Infra : AWS (ECS, S3, CloudWatch), Docker, GitHub ActionsDatabases : PostgreSQL, RedisOther : REST APIs, OpenAPI, Feature Flags, Advanced monitoring (Sentry)You’ll have the freedom to evaluate and evolve our stack, introduce new frameworks and patterns, and set architectural guidelines that outlast individual technologies.If you are interested in this awesome opportunity, please share your latest resume at careers@skillscapital.io