Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL INC•Country Club Hills, IL

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About The Position

International Code Council is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong track record of building enterprise-scale web applications. You’ll help shape our architecture, standards, and engineering culture as part of a cross-functional agile team. We’re fully containerized on Kubernetes with a decoupled single-page application and automation to build for browser and mobile deployments. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technologist who mentors others, drives technical excellence, and ships well-designed, secure, and pragmatic systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field; or equivalent professional experience demonstrating comparable expertise
6+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production web apps, APIs, or large-scale sites.
3+ years building production backends with Node.js/TypeScript; 2+ years with NestJS.
2+ years building modern SPAs with Nuxt.js 3 (Vue 3) in a decoupled architecture.
Strong fluency with relational databases (PostgreSQL), database design, and query optimization; familiarity with NoSQL is a plus.
Advanced front-end component engineering with Vue 3 (state management, composition API), CSS/SCSS, and a modern UI system (e.g. Vuetify, Tailwind CSS).
Demonstrated experience with responsive, mobile first development and automated builds for web and mobile targets (e.g., PWA and/or Capacitor-based packaging).
Proficiency with Git, modern branching strategies, code review, and structured deployments.
Deep understanding of object-oriented and modular design, clean architecture, testing practices, and secure coding.
Build positive working relationships across IT disciplines and seniority levels.
Collaborate effectively and respond to feedback with professionalism.
Demonstrate urgency and ownership; know when to escalate vs. take initiative.
Excellent written and verbal communication; organized self-starter with strong attention to detail and GSD attitude.
Ability to elicit, document, and refine business/system requirements.
Deliver reliably against project schedules.

Nice To Haves

Experience architecting SPAs and micro front-ends with Nuxt/Vue in monorepos.
Hands-on with Kubernetes in production (Helm/Argo CD/Kompose), secrets management, and runtime hardening.
GraphQL (Apollo or Mercurius), event-driven architectures, and messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ/SQS).
Observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK) and SLO practices.
Cloud experience (Azure/AWS) and DevOps CI/CD automation.
PWA development and offline-first patterns.
Exposure to academic or nonprofit environments.
Familiarity with JIRA/Confluence and collaborative documentation practices.

Responsibilities

Lead design & development of enterprise applications using Node.js (TypeScript), NestJS for backend services, and Nuxt.js (Vue 3) for a decoupled SPA front end.
Build robust APIs (REST and/or GraphQL), data access layers (e.g., Prisma or TypeORM), and integration with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and caches (e.g., Redis).
Own Quality: implement unit/integration tests (Jest/Vitest), end-to-end tests with Playwright, and enforce code quality/coverage within CI.
Scale: containerize services with Docker; deploy to Kubernetes (Helm, ArgoCD, or GitOps tools) and ensure SLA/SLO-driven reliability.
Observability & Security: apply OWASP best practices; instrument with OpenAPI/Swagger, structured logging, metrics/tracing (e.g., OpenTelemetry), and APM/monitoring.
DevEx & CI/CD: use GitHub/GitFlow (or trunk-based), automate pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions), and optimize monorepo workflows.
Performance & Availability: proactively find/resolve bottlenecks, tune queries/caches, and support horizontal scaling.
Collaboration & Leadership: provide thoughtful code reviews, mentor peers, and contribute meaningfully to sprint planning, standups, retros, and architecture reviews.
Documentation: author clear technical docs and diagrams for internal and external stakeholders.
Accessibility: ensure cross-browser/device support and compliance with WCAG guidelines.