Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting
- Flexible time off
- Comprehensive health and dental plans
- Wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace
- Competitive compensation (competitive salaries and bonus opportunities)
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