Sr. Full-Stack Engineer

Rockstar • Austin, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Full-Stack Engineer builds the web applications and platform services behind the scholarship fund’s work, including the Partner Portal and its behavioral platforms. Working in person in Austin within a small, cross-functional pod alongside a Product Manager and Operations/CI partners, the engineer owns products from first prototype through production and ongoing improvement. As the engineering team grows ahead of the Education Freedom Tax Credit’s launch, the engineer will help establish technical patterns that enable multiple pods to work independently without fragmenting the architecture.

The role involves building within a Next.js, TypeScript, and Convex application hosted on Vercel, using Clerk for authentication and Sentry for monitoring, as well as developing behavioral platforms. It also includes designing AI-powered features where they add value, building dependable integrations and data pipelines, and collaborating with product, design, program, and external partners.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of full-stack engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of front-end and back-end systems.
• Proficiency in React and Next.js.
• Strong TypeScript skills and back-end experience with Node.js and RESTful APIs.
• Strong API integration experience, including authentication, pagination, rate limits, retries, error handling, logging, webhooks, and server-side events.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases and cloud data stores.
• A track record of shipping tested, production-quality code through modern Git and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience in cross-functional product teams alongside Product Managers.
• Experience working directly with third-party vendors, agencies, or platform providers on technical deliverables.
• Ability to translate business needs and engineering decisions for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work in person at the Austin, Texas office.
• Comfort architecting systems and implementing them as part of a small, in-person team.
• Experience using AI-assisted development as a core part of the engineering workflow.
• Initiative in identifying problems, proposing solutions, and acting without waiting to be asked.
• Flexibility, communication skills, and ability to document work and keep others informed when priorities or requirements change.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on AWS experience, such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, or CloudWatch.
• DevOps experience owning CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub Actions, environment management, and deployment tooling.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience, such as AWS SAM.
• Experience setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting across development, staging, and production.

Responsibilities

• Design and build web applications and platform services from prototype through production.
• Build and maintain the Partner Portal and behavioral platforms using the organization’s technology stack.
• Create accessible front ends and reliable back-end services and APIs.
• Design and build useful AI-powered features, including LLM-powered tools, chatbots, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Write tested, maintainable code; participate in code reviews; and instrument features with logging and error monitoring.
• Ship through CI/CD pipelines across development, staging, and production while applying shared security practices.
• Build and maintain custom APIs and integrations with third-party platforms.
• Make integrations dependable through authentication, pagination, rate-limit handling, retries, error handling, and logging.
• Support data pipelines and data-quality checks for reporting and operations.
• Partner with the Product Manager to translate goals and business requirements into technical approaches, scope work, identify tradeoffs, and deliver iteratively.
• Work with designers, program staff, and stakeholders to understand needs and validate solutions.
• Serve as a technical contact for vendors, agencies, and platform providers; lead integration work and review partner-delivered code for quality, security, and architectural fit.
• Evaluate tools and vendors and make build-versus-buy recommendations.
• Support other pods and projects as priorities shift.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plans.
• Comprehensive dental plans.
• 401(k) with a 5% match.
• Vacation time.
• Office closures for the weeks of Christmas and the Fourth of July.

What This Job Offers

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