Senior Fullstack Engineer, Freelance

Role Overview

• Build and own core product features
• Design and implement full-stack features from the ground up: database schema, backend logic, GraphQL API, and React/TypeScript UI
• Take full ownership of significant parts of the system: reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability are yours to drive
• Participate in every stage of the development lifecycle, from design and implementation to rollout and smooth operation in production
• Contribute to and challenge our technical architecture as we scale
• Bring genuine backend depth
• Design robust data models and schemas built to perform at scale
• Build and operate backend services, including background jobs, async pipelines, and integrations with third-party systems
• Own observability: instrument systems, define meaningful metrics, and respond to incidents with confidence
• Identify and address security risks proactively from API design to infrastructure exposure
• Automate deployments via our CI/CD systems and continuously improve development processes
• Work with AI as a day-to-day accelerator
• Leverage AI tools actively in your workflow, from code generation and review to debugging and documentation, to move faster without compromising quality
• Contribute to how we integrate AI-assisted development practices across the engineering team
• Stay curious about emerging AI capabilities and bring new ideas on how we can use them to ship better, faster
• Be a team force multiplier
• Lead technical design on significant features and share your experience openly
• Review pull requests with rigor and care, raising the bar for the whole team
• Participate actively in team rituals: stand-ups, planning, retros
• Contribute to our culture of quality: incremental, well-tested, observable changes
• Pursue quality, always
• Champion clean code, solid test coverage, and strong engineering practices
• Improve processes and methodologies to reach the highest standards
• Bring excellence to your own work and help others do the same.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience shipping product across the full stack, with strong backend foundations
• Fluent in React/TypeScript on the frontend; deep expertise in relational databases, distributed systems, observability, and security on the backend
• Comfortable owning features end-to-end with autonomy and clear communication
• Strong plus: Ruby on Rails experience in a high-scale production environment
• You write clean, well-tested code and take genuine ownership of your work.

Tech Stack

• Distributed Systems
• GraphQL
• React
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• TypeScript