Job Description

Why Ryan?

• Global Award-Winning Culture

• Flexible Work Environment

• Generous Paid Time Off

• World-Class Benefits and Compensation

• Rapid Growth Opportunities

• Company Sponsored Two-Way Transportation

• Exponential Career Growth

As a member of the Ryan Application Development Team, this position will be a critical contributor to an ambitious strategic initiative with the goal of re-envisioning a broad suite of enterprise level applications. Aiming to create simple and compelling user experiences, the Full Stack Developer will be required to draw on a depth of design and engineering experience building complex web applications and systems. Best equipped candidates will be highly proficient in front end frameworks (e.g. angular, react), C# and .NET, SQL, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, web services, and testing practices. Candidates will be required to interface directly with product management, other business groups, customers, and key stakeholders demanding exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

The Ryan Application Development Team promotes an open-minded atmosphere of learning and growth and expects the same from candidates. We want to foster a positive and enthusiastic can-do attitude with our work. Candidates should have a sense of where things are going and have experience using best of breed tools, technologies, and practices. This role is a formative one for the future of application development within Ryan, LLC and will be best filled by candidates hungry to have a huge impact.

Full-Stack Senior Developer (Team Lead or Mid-Level with Growth) with 5+ years’ experience

• Provides architectural guidance, ensures scalability, and shares development workload.
• Experienced with Next.js best practices, API integrations, and SSR/ISR strategies.
• Conducts code reviews, sets coding standards, and mentors peers.
• Bridges between DevOps and front-end when deeper infrastructure issues arise.
• Acts as technical lead and partner to onsite counterpart.
• Owns architecture (Next.js best practices, API integration, SSR/ISR strategies).
• Reviews your code, sets standards, and ensures long-term scalability.
• Bridges between DevOps team and front-end work when deeper infra issues arise.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain features and components in Next.js + React + TypeScript.
• Integrate with Contentful (GraphQL/REST APIs, webhooks, migrations, and management API).
• Collaborate with front-end, DevOps, designers, and content teams to deliver new features and improve workflows.
• Ensure high standards for performance, SEO, accessibility, and security across the platform.
• Implement and maintain automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end).
• Participate in code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and release cycles.
• Provide technical leadership in a small team setting, mentoring peers and setting best practices.
• Monitor site health (performance, error tracking, observability) and proactively improve reliability.

Experience:

• 5 + Full Stack senior developer expertise in modern front-end and full-stack JavaScript frameworks like Next.js, React.js, and TypeScript.
• 1-2+ years of proficiency in Node.js
• Experience with a headless CMS (Contentful preferred).
• Custom app development within Contentful
• Complex content modeling and environment management
• At least 1+ year of production experience with Next.js applications.
• Experience with a headless CMS (Contentful preferred).
• Strong CSS fundamentals and familiarity with TailwindCSS.
• 3-4 years of Development and Migration experience.
• Understanding of SSR, SSG, ISR rendering modes and tradeoffs.
• Familiarity with Core Web Vitals, accessibility (WCAG), and SEO basics.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Exposure to analytics frameworks (GTM, GA4, consent management tools).
• Hands-on with modern testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright).

Skills required:

• Languages/Frameworks: Next.js, React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Tailwind
• CMS: Contentful (GraphQL/REST SDKs, migrations, environments, Management API)
• Platforms such as Strapi, Sanity, or Directus
• Version Control & CI/CD: Azure Repos + Pipelines (or Vercel/GitHub Actions)
• Testing: Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright
• Quality/DX: ESLint, Prettier, Lighthouse, Storybook (optional)
• Monitoring/Observability: Familiarity with Sentry, Datadog, or similar (nice to have)