Fullstack Engineer

Summary

Join Propel People, an AI-powered construction recruiting platform, as a Fullstack Engineer and be part of a high-growth startup transforming how skilled trades are hired. You will own product slices end-to-end, from UX sketching to shipping and measuring results. Responsibilities include automating processes, squashing bugs, building in React and Python, extending microservices on AWS, and collaborating with stakeholders. The ideal candidate has 5-8 years of experience, strong frontend skills, and working backend knowledge. This remote role offers a competitive salary, incentive program, pension, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• This is a mid-level role ideal for engineers with around 5-8 years of hands-on development experience
• Experience building SPAs in React/TypeScript with modern state management and routing
• Fluency in Python or strong JS/TS with interest in Python Lambdas
• Comfortable writing SQL and using ORMs (SQLAlchemy/Postgres)
• Familiar with at least one backend language (TypeScript, Python, or Ruby)
• Proven history shipping in AWS (or other major cloud platforms)
• Writes tests and monitors code in production
• Startup mindset: bias for action, comfortable with ambiguity, eager to talk to users

Responsibilities

• Own product slices end-to-end: sketch UX, code, test, ship, and measure
• QA features to ensure they meet customer needs
• Automate everything—tests (GitHub Actions), Terraform modules, container builds, serverless deployments
• Quickly squash bugs and continuously tune for performance and cost
• Build daily in our React + Vite SPA (TanStack Router, React-Query, MUI Joy)
• Write clean, testable, efficient code
• Extend microservices on AWS Fargate (Twilio, third-party HR integrations)
• Instrument code with Grafana Faro, logs, and traces – monitor via dashboards you build
• Build and maintain Python Lambdas (SQLAlchemy → Postgres, S3, SQS, Cognito, SageMaker)
• Contribute across the dev lifecycle – collaborate with product stakeholders, writing tech specs & RFCs, to feature release and operations
• Build web apps and APIs in TypeScript/Python on Node.js and FastAPI (AWS-based)
• Partner with design and eng to ship features that scale with demand

Preferred Qualifications

• Serverless Framework, Terraform, or CDK experience
• CI/CD knowledge (GitHub Actions preferred)
• AWS tools like Cognito, S3 presigned URLs, SQS/SNS, Fargate
• Exposure to data /analytics tools (Grafana, Redash) or ML-powered features
• Mobile dev experience (Flutter or React Native)
• Past work integrating third-party APIs (HRIS, Stripe, Twilio, WhatsApp/Telegram APIs, etc.)

Benefits

• We offer a competitive salary, incentive program, pension, and a comprehensive benefits package
• This role is remote