Remote Senior Full Stack Developer

Summary

Join Metalab's engineering team as a Full Stack Engineer to help turn product designs into reality, providing technical expertise and guidance on projects, delivering beautiful code, and developing new skills.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Full Stack experience with expertise in Node.js and Python
• Deep appreciation of the design practice and can protect the integrity of design intent without compromising fidelity
• Responds positively to both professional and project-based feedback and can help the team adapt to changing priorities within fast-paced projects
• Organized, self-motivated, and comfortable advocating for your needs and the needs of the project
• You have experience building full-stack applications across both the frontend and service layer using modern Typescript frameworks (ie. React, React Native, Nest)
• You have experience creating both REST and GraphQL APIs that enable client applications to persist, process, and retrieve data from various types of databases (ie. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
• You are excited to learn new technologies and adopt new solutions to deliver amazing products and further your depth of knowledge as an engineer and technologist
• You have contributed to technical design discussions and helped evaluate different technical solutions to influence architectural decision-making
• You are comfortable following general Agile delivery methodologies and participating in regularly scheduled standups and ceremonies (we do our best to prioritize progress over process)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with your project team to develop new features and functionality for the products that we deliver across both frontend and backend technologies
• Work with our Product Management team to regularly refine the definition of the work in the product backlog, contributing expertise and gaining clarity when needed
• Provide feedback on designs for completeness, implementation effort, and feasibility
• Collaborate with Product to plan future sprints by contributing to story definition, providing work estimates, and regularly identifying technical dependencies and blockers
• Understand and advocate for ongoing sprint goals and help motivate our teams to finish sprints on time and with minimal technical debt
• Review your team members' code submissions to ensure our work meets the needs of the project in terms of quality, correctness, consistency, and performance
• Participate in regular shares with client stakeholders on project progress and delivered features and functionality
• Support the engineering department by sharing the technical knowledge you learn with your project teams
• Identify when your project team members are stuck on a technical challenge and offer support
• Produce documentation on methods, decisions, technical approaches, and other contexts to improve the developer experience on our projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using ML models and AI services to power real-live products (ie. Google Cloud AI, Azure AI, AWS AI or Bedrock, GPT, Dialogflow, Claude, LangChain)
• Experience implementing ML algorithms with common frameworks in end-to-end applications (ie. TensorFlow, Synaptic, ML5.js, Spark ML)
• Experience in an agency setting