Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Backend Focus)

TEKsystems•Milton, GA

2d•$72 - $72•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join a small, high-impact team responsible for building and expanding an enterprise platform. This platform supports content creation, publishing, integrations, plugins, and AI-enabled user experiences. The selected candidate will have significant end-to-end ownership, encompassing solution design, development, deployment, troubleshooting, and ongoing support.

Requirements

5–10 years of progressive software development experience.
Strong backend engineering experience with full-stack capability.
Hands-on experience building and supporting production applications.
Ability to independently own large features, modules, services, or pipelines.
Strong understanding of system design, algorithms, data structures, performance, scalability, and reliability.
Comfortable working in a small team with high visibility, autonomy, and accountability.
Able to learn unfamiliar frameworks and technologies quickly.
Python
React JS
PostgreSQL
Relational database
SQL
AWS
Foundational knowledge of generative AI and AI-assisted development.
Experience using or evaluating AI coding tools.
Judgment to identify incorrect, insecure, or unsuitable AI-generated code.
Ability to quickly learn and apply new AI tools in practical engineering workflows.
Ability to clearly explain a system or major feature personally taken from design to production.
Ability to clearly explain a production failure diagnosed, resolved, and prevented from recurring.
Ability to clearly explain architectural decisions involving scale, latency, reliability, or maintainability.
Experience with relational database design, data integrity, indexing, and performance.
Ability to explain individual contributions rather than only overall team accomplishments.
Experience working with incomplete requirements and limited supervision.

Nice To Haves

Primarily frontend-focused candidates are not suitable.
Candidates lacking production ownership are not suitable.
Candidates unable to clearly explain their personal technical contributions are not suitable.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, deploy, troubleshoot, and support an enterprise platform.
Take ownership of large features, modules, services, or pipelines.
Apply foundational knowledge of generative AI and AI-assisted development.
Use and evaluate AI coding tools.
Identify incorrect, insecure, or unsuitable AI-generated code.
Quickly learn and apply new AI tools in practical engineering workflows.
Diagnose and resolve production failures, and prevent recurrence.
Make architectural decisions involving scale, latency, reliability, or maintainability.
Design relational databases, ensuring data integrity, indexing, and performance.
Contribute individually to projects, clearly explaining personal technical contributions.
Work with incomplete requirements and limited supervision.