Lead Full-Stack Engineer

About the Position

🙌We are building a dedicated engineering team for a greenfield, cloud-native fintech platform focused on digital exchange infrastructure. As a Lead Full-Stack Engineer, you will serve as the technical backbone of the team, working closely with the client’s CTO and helping shape both the architecture and engineering culture from day one. This is a highly hands-on leadership role. We’re looking for someone who leads by example, drives technical excellence, and actively contributes to building the product rather than managing from a distance.

Responsibilities

• Own and shape the architecture of a greenfield cloud-native platform from the ground up
• Drive critical system-level decisions around data modeling, event-driven design, scalability, performance, and reliability
• Establish and maintain AWS cloud foundations, including environments, permissions, infrastructure, and security practices
• Define engineering standards across observability, CI/CD, testing, automation, and software quality
• Design and build key product features across both frontend and backend systems
• Partner closely with the CTO and engineering team to translate product goals into scalable technical solutions

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with proven ownership of production systems
• Deep technical expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript
• Strong full-stack experience with React, Next.js, and Node.js
• Solid PostgreSQL knowledge and relational database design skills
• Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native application development
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, containerized environments, and serverless services
• Experience with GitHub workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and modern observability/monitoring platforms
• Proven track record of delivering secure, reliable, scalable, and observable production systems
• Upper-Intermediate English level

Mindset & Leadership

• Strong ownership and accountability mindset
• Collaborative team player who believes in helping others succeed
• Highly autonomous and self-directed
• Pragmatic engineer who values simplicity, execution, and business impact
• Excellent communication skills and product-oriented thinking

Nice to Have

• SaaS and multi-tenant architecture experience
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Strong understanding of web application security best practices
• Experience designing and operating high-availability systems

We Offer

• Competitive salary in USD
• Paid vacation and sick leaves
• Medical insurance
• PE accounting and support
• Opportunity to define engineering standards from the start
• High-impact role with both technical depth and leadership influence

About the Company

We focus our activities on positive candidate experience, and divide the recruitment process into two main stages.

Stage 1: Meetings with our Team

During that stage, we assess the candidates’ skills and match them to a project which meets their expectations.

• Meeting with the recruiters
• Conversation with our technical interviewer

Stage 2: Feedback and Job Offer

At this stage we talk about everything in detail and finalize the recruitment process.

• Feedback
• Job Offer

We always provide feedback, no matter if the candidate joins DjangoStars or not - we appreciate your time and efforts spent and strive to help you grow.

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