Full Stack Technical Lead

Overview

As a Full Stack Technical Lead at Polaris I/O, you will play a critical hands-on and leadership role in building, evolving, and scaling our web-based platforms. You will work across the full technology stack – front-end, back-end and cloud infrastructure – while providing technical direction, architectural guidance, and mentorship to engineering teams. As part of your mentorship responsibilities, you will perform constructive reviews of other engineers' code.

You will be involved in the entire product development lifecycle, including design, development, deployment, and ongoing maintenance of new and existing features. In this role, you will collaborate closely with product owners, leadership and with other engineers to ensure system consistency, scalability, performance, and commercial success of the Polaris I/O platform.

You will also serve as an individual contributor, writing clean, functional, reusable and maintainable front- and back-end code as time permits given your leadership responsibilities. You will optimize web design and microservices for usability, network latency, and infrastructure cost. You will also perform UI and back-end tests to optimize performance, stability, and user experience of our products.

We are looking for a driven contributor leader who is passionate about people, technology, data, and client satisfaction. This role will report directly to the Engineering Manager and have a direct impact on our business performance and the continued growth of our engineering teams and technologies.

Duties

• Serve as a technical leader and hands-on contributor across front-end, back-end and cloud systems
• Implement and drive continuous improvements to the existing platform
• Act as a core member of an agile delivery team, contributing to user story analysis, technical design, development and testing
• Coach and mentor engineers while helping oversee project delivery. Provide constructive feedback to engineers through code reviews
• Provide system-level and component-level architectural design and evaluation
• Deliver working prototypes, reference implementations, shared frameworks and automation tools for delivery teams to build upon
• Perform hands-on development of highly performant front-end components and scalable back-end services
• Optimize applications and services for usability, performance, network latency, reliability and infrastructure cost
• Drive consistent development patterns, coding standards, tooling and shared components, utilizing third-party frameworks where applicable
• Work with technical product managers and contribute to blueprints while assisting with annual planning of feature sets
• Identify opportunities to adopt new technologies and anticipate future challenges
• Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains

Requirements

• You have the proven ability to deliver end-to-end functionality across front-end, back-end and infrastructure tech stacks
• You are experienced with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Redux or equivalent state management
• You can implement pixel-accurate component-driven UI, using a library such as Tailwind, from design specifications in Figma or similar tools
• You have strong back-end experience with both Python (FastAPI/Django/Flask) and (Express, TypeScript)
• You can design REST APIs and microservices
• You are comfortable working with relational and non-relational databases
• You have experience with testing and debugging
• You have an eye for layout aesthetics
• You're analytical and good at time management
• You have great communication and problem-solving skills
• You're curious about new technologies and you're excited to find ways to implement them in your work
• You have experience with coaching and mentoring other developers, and you are comfortable taking a significant role in code review
• You can oversee and drive projects forward
• You have experience with developing and managing cloud-computing environments like AWS, Azure, Heroku
• You're interested in career advancement
• Bachelor's Degree, equivalent certification, or military experience

About the Company

Polaris I/O provides the world's only integrated go-to-customer platform and collaborative team-based learning center that combines transformation services, industry insights, and powerful technology to enable B2B companies to protect, retain, and grow large accounts.  Our platforms take an outside-in approach to improving your commercial health, utilizing executive buyer insights to inform the orchestration of commercial activities that improve relationships, maximize growth, and scale beyond our engagement.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $140, $170,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Polaris I/O provides no sponsorship of any kind, including but not limited to "STEM OPT" applicants. By applying you are stating that you are fully authorized to work in the United States without any requirement of sponsorship. Respond "yes" to indicate your understanding and acceptance of this condition of employment.
• Polaris I/O may hold company meetings of several days duration at locations in the continental US. These occur not more than once or twice annually. Employees are reimbursed for reasonable travel expenses incurred in the course of attending company meetings. Please respond "yes" to indicate your willingness to travel, solely for the purpose of attending such company meetings.

Experience:

• Back-end Python (FastAPI / Django): 5 years (Required)
• 5 years (Required)
• TypeScript: 5 years (Required)
• React: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote