Senior Software Developer

• Opportunity to shape product and technical direction

About Our Client

Our client is helping students achieve better outcomes through world-class mentoring and support. They're a fast-growing, startup-minded team that values ownership, speed, pragmatism, and strong engineering fundamentals.

This is an opportunity to have a genuine impact in a lean, high-performing team where engineers are trusted to solve problems end-to-end and wear multiple hats

Job Description

• Own the end-to-end delivery of full-stack features, from design and architecture through to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.
• Build modern customer-facing applications using TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, balancing scalability, maintainability, and user experience.
• Develop secure, well-designed APIs and backend services that power core platform functionality and support future growth.
• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (SST/Pulumi), with hands-on responsibility across AWS services including IAM, VPCs, ECS/Fargate, S3, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
• Improve engineering productivity by contributing to CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, developer tooling, and operational excellence.
• Work confidently across both greenfield projects and existing production systems, making thoughtful decisions that improve code quality without over-engineering.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, participate in on-call responsibilities, and help build reliable, observable systems.
• Partner closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
• For senior engineers, provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews, mentoring, and raising engineering standards across the team.

The Successful Applicant

A successful Senior Software Engineer should have:

• • TypeScript
  • React
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Infrastructure as Code (SST or Pulumi preferred)
  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)
  • ORM frameworks (Prisma preferred)
  • Testing frameworks such as Vitest or Jest
• Python experience for automation and CI/CD scripting
• Experience building and maintaining production systems
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices
• Full-stack development capability

Nice to Have

• Next.js experience
• Supabase ecosystem familiarity
• SST experience
• Go or Deno experience
• Experience provisioning AWS environments from scratch
• Monorepo experience (especially Turborepo)
• Startup or high-growth company experience

What's on Offer

• Modern engineering stack
• Opportunity to shape product and technical direction

If you are ready to move forward in your career as a Senior Software Engineer, we encourage you to apply!