About The Position
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll work at the intersection of engineering and product to shape how our users build with Hygraph. You'll ship features that solve real customer problems, contribute to our CMS core, extend our platform capabilities, and help bring AI-powered features to life. You won't wait for perfect specs or pixel-perfect designs. You'll use your judgment, collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and customers, and move fast using modern AI-assisted development tools. This role is for someone who sees engineering as a team sport, takes ownership without waiting for permission, and thrives in an environment where initiative matters more than instructions.
Requirements
- Significant experience (typically 6+ years) building and owning production systems, with strong full-stack skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and deep backend expertise, scalability, and performance fundamentals (ideally Node.js).
- Experience building user interfaces, ideally with React.
- Experience developing well-tested APIs with GraphQL.
- Solid knowledge of relational databases (especially PostgreSQL), including schema design and query optimization.
- Active use of AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, Codex, or similar) in your workflow.
- Familiarity with cloud-native development (AWS, GCP).
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (New Relic, Datadog, or similar).
- Openness and experience with on-call and operational work (investigations, incident response, etc.).
- Ability to work with ambiguity: rough prototypes, evolving requirements, and imperfect information. You use judgment and experience to fill the gaps.
- Strong product sense. You think about why you're building something, not just how. You care about the customer experience, not just the code.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Golang.
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code tooling (Pulumi, Terraform).
- Experience working directly with customers or in customer-facing roles.
- Familiarity with headless CMS platforms or content infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate in a cross-functional, autonomous team to deliver features and continuous improvements, often working from rough prototypes or early concepts rather than polished designs.
- Translate business needs into technical solutions by working closely with the Product team.
- Occasionally, participate in customer conversations to validate that what you're building actually solves their problems.
- Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude, Codex, or similar) to accelerate development.
- Proactively identify issues through monitoring and observability data. Then fix them, don't just flag them.
- Contribute to architectural decisions that keep our platform scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
- Share what you know, learn from others, and help your teammates grow.
Benefits
- Yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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