Senior Full Stack Engineer

Better Impact • Winston-Salem, NC

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About The Position

Better Impact is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer with strong architectural sensibilities to take ownership of their global platform services. These foundational systems include single sign-on, control plane, and data plane services, such as the aggregation layer and data hub infrastructure. This high-leverage role involves owning services consumed by every product in the portfolio, significantly impacting reliability, developer experience, and scalability. The engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining core platform services, driving architectural decisions, and ensuring systems are built for scale, reliability, and a multi-region footprint. This is a hands-on role where the engineer will ship production code daily and collaborate with product engineers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong full stack capabilities. You're comfortable owning features from database to UI
• Production experience with Node.js/TypeScript
• Modern React development (hooks, state management, component architecture)
• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and query optimization
• Experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or similar search infrastructure
• Working knowledge of AWS fundamentals: RDS, S3, ECS, SQS, and similar managed services
• Hands-on experience building or operating identity and auth systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO federation), since you'll own SSO from day one
• Track record of owning services in production: monitoring, debugging, incident response
• Clear technical communication. You can explain complex systems to both engineers and non-engineers

Nice To Haves

• Backend experience with PHP/Laravel
• Experience with .NET
• Experience with event-driven architectures and async job processing
• Prior experience as a tech lead or staff engineer

Responsibilities

• Own core platform services: Design, build, and maintain SSO and auth services, profile services, and data aggregation layers that serve as the backbone for all products
• Build across the stack: Write backend APIs and services, then build the frontend interfaces that consume them
• Drive architectural decisions: Evaluate trade-offs, document decisions, and guide the evolution of our service architecture
• Build for scale and reliability: Design systems that handle growth gracefully with appropriate observability, error handling, and recovery patterns
• Build for a multi-region footprint: Make sound decisions about data residency and data movement across the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia
• Ship production code: This isn't a whiteboard-only role. You'll write code daily and own features end to end
• Collaborate across teams: Work with product engineers who consume your services to understand their needs and provide clean, well-documented APIs

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision insurance (after 90 days)
• 401(k) (after 90 days)
• Unlimited vacation + 9 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Competitive comp package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed