Senior Full Stack Engineer, (Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)

Fearless • Washington, DC

8d • $120,588 - $195,955 • Remote

About The Position

Fearless is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer in its Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services career path to provide hands-on technical leadership in developing a modern digital platform. The role leads application architecture and API design while contributing directly to implementation across backend services, APIs, integrations, and frontend components. It makes technical decisions and establishes scalable, reusable application patterns in partnership with engineering, DevOps, product, design, data, and security stakeholders. The position balances technical leadership with hands-on development to take complex digital solutions from design through production delivery.

The Senior Consultant aligns technical vision, implementation, and software quality across development, reliability, testing, and operations. The role bridges business objectives and technical execution across software development, infrastructure, security, and testing, and delivers scalable, secure, reliable solutions while mentoring engineers and aligning stakeholders with product and project goals. This is a fully remote position.

The position also fosters cross-functional collaboration, mentors and develops peers, builds trust with customers and teammates, and drives accountable delivery aligned with client priorities and Fearless standards. It monitors risks and deliverables, cultivates stakeholder relationships, and provides actionable recommendations to strengthen strategy and delivery outcomes. The engineer is expected to deliver high-quality, maintainable systems, apply engineering best practices, align stakeholders with product and project goals, and serve as a trusted advisor.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Significant hands-on experience designing and developing production applications across backend and frontend technologies.
• Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead application architecture and make technical design decisions while remaining hands-on with development.
• Proven experience designing integrations among applications, APIs, enterprise systems, middleware, or third-party services.
• Strong knowledge of secure data exchange, authentication and authorization, identity and access management, or similar security-sensitive application patterns.
• Experience developing scalable and reusable application components.
• Hands-on experience with modern frontend development and ability to contribute to frontend implementation as needed.
• Experience with automated testing, API testing, debugging, and application performance troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and cloud-based application environments.
• Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, DevOps, product, design, data, and security disciplines.
• Ability to produce technical documentation and communicate technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience delivering software using Agile development practices.
• Advanced application-level proficiency in the listed skills and competencies, including analytical thinking, synthetic thinking, adaptability, ownership and accountability, consultative advising, communicating with influence, and managing priorities and client alignment.
• Ability to sit for extended periods while working on a computer or during meetings.
• Ability to travel occasionally to client sites or company meetings, potentially by driving or flying.
• Ability to communicate effectively by phone, email, and in person, including clear speech, listening, and written communication.
• Ability to move within an office environment, reach for files, use office equipment, and occasionally lift up to 10 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with event-driven architecture and service orchestration patterns.
• Experience designing reusable APIs and application components for multiple products, systems, or use cases.
• Experience delivering applications with significant security, privacy, or data-protection considerations.
• Experience taking applications from technical design through production deployment and ongoing operational support.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture and application design for production-ready, scalable, reusable digital services.
• Design, develop, and maintain backend services, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
• Establish API architecture, integration patterns, data-sharing approaches, error-handling strategies, and technical standards.
• Design solutions supporting secure authentication, authorization, identity and access management, and auditable data interactions.
• Develop integrations with enterprise systems, middleware, repositories, and third-party platforms.
• Implement secure data exchange patterns, event-driven architectures, and service orchestration workflows.
• Support API versioning, documentation, automated testing, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain scalable, reusable frontend and backend application components.
• Contribute hands-on to frontend implementation, including integrating reusable user-facing components.
• Ensure technical implementations meet applicable architecture, security, accessibility, and operational requirements.
• Partner with DevOps and backend engineering to establish deployment patterns and move application code reliably into production.
• Troubleshoot application defects, performance issues, and integration failures.
• Contribute to observability, logging, monitoring, security, and production-readiness practices.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, technical decisions, API documentation, and implementation guidance.
• Collaborate with product, UX/design, data, security, infrastructure, and other technical stakeholders to align implementation with product and delivery goals.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, technical estimation, and release planning.
• Drive conversations and foster collaboration across cross-functional teams.
• Coach, mentor, and develop peers, communicating engineering solutions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Deliver services that earn the trust of customers and teammates.
• Ensure project objectives are met on time and aligned with client priorities and Fearless standards; anticipate risks and implement proactive solutions.
• Monitor team deliverables, identify risks early, coach teammates on mitigation, and keep leadership informed.
• Cultivate stakeholder relationships, synthesize client and partner insights, and provide Fearless leaders with actionable recommendations.
• Deliver high-quality code and maintainable systems, and implement innovative solutions using engineering best practices, tools, frameworks, and methodologies.
• Align stakeholders with product and project goals that advance customer satisfaction and Fearless objectives, strategy, and mission.

Benefits

• Flexible, life-friendly schedules.
• Medical HSA plan fully covered, with HSA contributions.
• Dental and vision coverage fully covered for the employee and dependents.
• Competitive premiums for HMO/PPO plans and dependent coverage.
• 401(k) with 4% company match and immediate vesting.
• Paid parental leave and 12 weeks of paid FMLA.
• Generous PTO, 11 federal holidays, a birthday holiday, and sick leave.
• Up to 15 days for jury duty and bereavement leave.
• Education, wellness, and technology allowances.
• Referral bonus of $6,000–$12,000 for each successful referral.
• Pet insurance and discount plans.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Legal support, life insurance, and disability coverage.
• Discretionary performance-based bonuses based on individual and company performance criteria.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior