Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer - Front-End Focused

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems. As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Front-End Focused) on the Enterprise IT team, you will own the design implementation for the consumer-facing web applications and ensure high performance and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Lead implementation of Next.js (App Router) features, including SSR, SSG, ISR, server components, and image optimization across our high-visibility web properties
• Design, extend, and maintain a reusable component library and Storybook, serving as the team's authority on design system standards and front-end architecture
• Integrate client applications with OpenAPI backends and secure authentication flows (JWT/OIDC), ensuring reliability and correctness across auth boundaries
• Ensure accessibility, test coverage (unit, integration, and e2e), and high performance standards — with Lighthouse and Web Vitals
• Own CI/CD builds, deployments, and environment configuration for AWS Amplify; collaborate on CDN caching and image transform pipelines
• Troubleshoot production issues, instrument front-end monitoring, and maintain runbooks and on-call readiness for client-side reliability
• Contribute to back-end tasks as needed, working closely with the broader engineering team across a Next.js/React TypeScript monorepo
• Mentor engineers on front-end best practices, design system conventions, and performance engineering

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
• 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with a clear front-end focus and a portfolio of production-grade work
• Experience mentoring software engineers
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and PHP
• Strong Node.js backend experience, preferably with NestJS
• Experience designing and consuming APIs in distributed or microservices architectures
• Hands-on experience with JWT/OIDC authentication, including Auth0 or equivalent, and passport-jwt/JWKS patterns
• Proven experience with relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases — schema design, query optimization, multi-environment deployments, and operational MongoDB (replication, sharding, performance tuning)
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS (task definitions, logging, ECR)
• Working knowledge of core AWS services: Amplify, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, S3, EFS, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, and VPC
• Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt)
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and GitHub OIDC for secure AWS deployments
• Observability and production operations experience: logs, metrics, alarms, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting
• Experience with security best practices, including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management
• Testing and quality discipline across unit, integration, and e2e layers (Jest), with strong linting and formatting standards
• Experience integrating headless CMS platforms with modern front-end frameworks
• Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect
• Experience with Contentful CMS, Drupal, and WordPress in headless or hybrid configurations
• Familiarity with Turborepo, pnpm, monorepo patterns, Storybook, and design systems at scale
• Zod/schema-first validation and OpenAPI generation tooling experience
• Hands-on experience with CloudPosse modules and terragrunt layout patterns
• Performance tuning experience for Node.js applications and MongoDB, including caching strategy design
• Experience with EFS for stateful containers and mounting/permission management
• Knowledge of Checkov, Terraform security scanning, and Terraform CI checks