Job Description

Responsibilities

• Own technical direction for Internal Tools, including front-end architecture and component/design system strategy, and turn product requirements into technical designs and engineering tickets
• Design and build new internal tools and admin features end-to-end, front-end through back-end
• Find opportunities to apply recommendation, ranking, and search techniques to our tools, partnering with data science and product to set priorities
• Drive down technical debt through targeted refactors and set engineering standards through design reviews
• Build reusable components and tooling that pay off beyond a single project
• Be the escalation point for deep debugging, and partner with security to keep admin interfaces locked down
• Help engineers grow through pairing, code review, and direct feedback; write the specs and docs that let the team build with confidence

Qualifications

• 5+ years building software, with a track record of shipping systems that scale
• Strong system design and architecture skills
• Extensive experience in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
• Advanced, production-grade React skills
• Hands-on with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Elasticsearch, including performance tuning
• Experience building and scaling backend systems, ideally at a startup or small company
• Track record of mentoring engineers

What Sets You Apart

• Production experience with Next.js
• Experience with recommendation, ranking, or search systems
• Product-minded: you think about users, not just systems
• Background building internal tools or ops platforms
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD
• Familiar with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or shipping ML in production