Lead Full-Stack Engineer
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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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Django Stars is a technical partner for industry leaders for more than 10 years. We do our best for clients and our clients are the best in their niches. No boring projects. No common solutions.We take real challenges where every team member can show off his skills and build top-notch products from scratch.Who you areYou are a professional keen on solving complex problems. Perfect code is not enough, you want it to meet business logic and build a product that rocks. A desire to grow and master your skills is what wakes you up in the morning, and IT-sphere variability is not a problem but a motivation for you.Ok, you are the person we are looking for. Now let’s find out why Django Stars is the company you look for.Our Expertise:— We work with clients from startups to scalable businesses for more than 10 years;— We created products in domains from healthcare and parent-child relations to booking engines and financial technologies;— We build complex products accessible on the web, so we are not only into perfect frameworks’ knowledge but keeping an eye on architecture.What are we proud of?We helped our client to become the #1 mortgage broker on the Swiss market, developed the world’s #1 booking platform for scuba diving and created complex scheduling and payment software for the U.S. sport businesses.Our Services:— We do code but our main goal is solving customer problems and project challenges;— We are responsible for development approaches as well as project architecture and infrastructure;— We apply our cross-domain expertise to get the best results as a team.Our services include Web and Mobile development, UX/UI Design, Quality Assurance, Data Science and DevOps.Why Django Stars?— The biggest Django team in Ukraine and one of the first commercial Django companies in the world (established in 2008); only in-house team members;— Building complex projects in the web from scratch; problem-solving challenges for engineers of any level;— Customers are a part of a team for closer cooperation, so there are business trips possible. Our key clients are based in the U.S., Switzerland and the UK;— Highest development standard: own code style, TDD, CI, code review is a must;— A transparent collaboration process inside and outside the team, we follow Agile/Scrum methodology;— Modern and cozy office in Kyiv downtown, friendly and informal atmosphere;— Competitive salary, medical insurance, paid vacation days, flexible schedule and the ability to partially work remotely;— DOU rating 95/100.We ARE:— TOP-3 Python & Django Developers, #1 Web app developer in Switzerland, Top Web & Software Developers in Ukraine, Top Eastern Europe Software & Web Developers according toClutch.co;— Django and Python community supporters. We are sponsors of Django & Python Foundations,DjangoCon.eu, and Django Girls;— People who share knowledge inside and outside our walls; we have internal events and participate in conferences in Ukraine and abroad.We ARE NOT:— Into bureaucracy;— Taking one-man projects;— Doing overtimes;— Creating working chaos;— Writing long company profile descriptions :)Apply today and get started on an amazing career[email protected]More about usOur blogClients about us