Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wpromote is developing Polaris, a data and marketing intelligence platform that also serves as its CRM and operational source of truth. The Senior Software Engineer I will lead hands-on full-stack development across React, TypeScript, Django, Python, and PostgreSQL, owning features from architecture through deployment and production support. The role also involves technical leadership, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and improving engineering quality, reliability, and delivery speed.
Responsibilities
- Acting as a hands-on technical leader and Subject Matter Expert (SME) across both React/TypeScript and Django/Python
- Designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end features across React applications, Django APIs and services, and PostgreSQL data models
- Partnering with Product and UX to turn complex business workflows into intuitive, accessible, and responsive user experiences
- Designing secure, scalable RESTful APIs and integrating with Google and other third-party services
- Architecting reusable frontend and backend patterns with clear boundaries and pragmatic tradeoffs
- Owning automated testing across the stack with Pytest, Vitest, and Playwright to support reliable continuous integration and delivery
- Monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving performance, reliability, and observability across web applications and APIs
- Driving features from discovery and technical design through deployment, documentation, and production support
- Carefully balancing custom and open-source software to best suit product and operational needs
- Proactively identifying and resolving defects, technical debt, and architectural risks
- Reviewing designs and code, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards across the team
- Collaborating across squads and participating in agile planning and delivery
Skills
- 7+ years of experience building production web applications, with strong hands-on expertise in both React/TypeScript and Python/Django
- Proven ability to own complex full-stack features and systems end to end
- Deep React expertise, including hooks, component architecture, accessibility, and state management such as Redux or Zustand
- Deep Django expertise, including the ORM, migrations, authentication and authorization, and Django REST Framework or similar API tooling
- Strong experience designing and operating RESTful APIs and third-party integrations, including validation, error handling, rate limits, and varied data formats
- Strong PostgreSQL and relational data modeling skills, including query performance and transactional design
- Mastery of modern frontend tooling such as Vite and NPM, plus GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD pipelines
- Strong automated testing practices across frontend, backend, and end-to-end layers using tools such as Vitest or Jest, Pytest, and Playwright
- Strong understanding of application security, API security, and secure coding practices
- Exceptional architecture, debugging, and problem-solving skills across the full stack
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, and ability to influence cross-functional teams
- This position may be performed remotely in most states within the US, with some exclusions
- This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship
- Experience deploying and operating containerized applications in cloud environments; Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes are a plus
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Extended Holiday break (Winter)
- 100% paid parental leave
- 401(k) matching
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Pet Insurance
- Sponsored life insurance
- Short Term Disability insurance and additional voluntary insurance
- Annual Class Pass credits and more!
- This position may be performed remotely in most states within the US, with some exclusions
- Office hubs in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where you can join in on learning and development opportunities, fun events, take advantage of a space to work, and collaborate in person
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