Full Stack Software Engineer III

Contentful•Denver, CO

6d•$136,000 - $184,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Contentful is seeking a Software Engineer to join their Ecosystem product line, with a primary focus on Marketplace. The role involves building, maintaining, and growing systems, apps, and workflows that enhance customer capabilities with Contentful. The engineer will work across the Marketplace and adjacent ecosystem tooling, contributing to high-impact apps, improving the contribution and review pipeline, and scaling developer contributions. While Marketplace is the main focus, the role may also contribute to Extensibility and Developer Experience areas. This position is ideal for a product-minded, full-stack engineer who is comfortable with front-end work (React), Node.js services, APIs, developer tooling, and production operations. The company is increasingly using AI-assisted development workflows and seeks an engineer excited to experiment with these tools. The role requires strong cross-functional collaboration and ownership of software throughout its lifecycle in production.

Requirements

Roughly 4-7 years of relevant software engineering experience.
Solid professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems.
Strong experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
Solid experience building user-facing product surfaces in React or similar front-end frameworks.
Clear strength in front-end engineering, paired with real comfort contributing to backend services, APIs, and developer-facing tooling.
Experience designing and evolving APIs, integrations, and services used by other engineers, partners, or customers.
Good judgment around reliability, maintainability, security, and technical tradeoffs in a product environment.
Comfort working across the stack and across boundaries, from user experience to backend behavior to operational concerns.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience working cross-functionally and asynchronously across teams and time zones.
A product mindset and real empathy for developers, partners, and customers.
Practical experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity, with the ability to evaluate outputs critically and maintain a high quality bar.
Applicants must be authorized to work without visa sponsorship by the start date of employment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with developer platforms, SDKs, app frameworks, marketplaces, extensibility products, or integration ecosystems.
Experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, or related cloud infrastructure.
Experience maintaining or contributing to public or shared developer tooling.
Familiarity with AI-native product surfaces, agentic workflows, or systems that connect software to external tools and services.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain Marketplace features, apps, and supporting services.
Contribute to systems and tooling that accelerate the launch of new apps and integrations.
Contribute to adjacent Ecosystem problem spaces, including extensibility workflows, developer tooling, internal platform capabilities, and backend services.
Improve contribution workflows, trust and safety checks, maintainability, and operational quality across Marketplace and ecosystem surfaces.
Partner closely with product, design, and engineers across Ecosystem to shape solutions.
Help generalize, polish, and productionize internally-built apps and ecosystem contributions.
Own software in production, including debugging, improving observability, strengthening reliability, and participating in support and operational responsibilities.
Use AI-assisted workflows across planning, implementation, debugging, and documentation.
Help the team improve how AI is used in engineering by sharing practices, refining workflows, and contributing to a healthy engineering culture.

Benefits

Stock Options
Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for dependents.
Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet.
Generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss, education days, and volunteer days.
Company paid parental leave.
Annual education budget.
Virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and team activities.
Annual wellbeing stipend.
Monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees.
$100 monthly transportation/parking stipend.