Sr Full Stack Software Engineer

Job Title: Sr Full Stack Software Engineer

Duration: 1 Year Contract with strong chance of extension

Our client is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with strong expertise in building scalable APIs, modern web applications, and cloud-native solutions. This role requires hands-on technical leadership & delivery, deep knowledge of event-driven architectures, and the ability to work iteratively in a highly agile environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement highly scalable APIs using best practices.
• Build and maintain applications using React, NestJS, and Spring Boot.
• Develop event-driven architectures and microservices for distributed systems.
• Deploy and manage applications on Azure Container Apps, configure APIM, and implement CI/CD pipelines through Azure DevOps.
• Use Bicep for IaC to automate cloud resource provisioning.
• Work with Docker for containerized deployments.
• Design and optimize relational and NoSQL databases.
• Productively use secure AI tools for assisted development while adhering to compliance and security best practices.
• Work iteratively in very agile environments, adapting to changing business priorities.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver incremental value.
• Hands-on delivery focused rather than waiting for complete requirements; delivering quickly and often.
• Knowledge of using feature flags to deploy quickly.
• Strong sense of shipping products to production instead of just development.
• Building observable code using Azure monitoring and telemetry.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of extensive experience building scalable APIs.
• 8+ years of modern web application development using React and Node.js frameworks (NestJS preferred)
• Experience building scalable Spring Boot APIs.
• Experience with security best practices for APIs.
• Expertise in event-driven architecture and microservices.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures & container-based development.
• Hands-on experience with Ideally Azure Container Apps, APIM, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps. (OR similar AWS stack)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably Bicep or equivalent tools such as Terraform, ARM Templates, or Pulumi.
• Solid database knowledge (SQL and NoSQL).
• Ability to pivot quickly based on incremental business requirements.
• Strong sense of ownership is required.
• Plan and manage code merges, branching strategies, and releases.
• Write detailed deployment plans, support production deployments.
• Ability to explain complex technical subjects, drive solution discussions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications:

• Experience building discounting rules engines.
• Familiarity with TanStack for advanced React state management.
• Producing technical design documents, solution option analysis
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Balancing delivery vs. excellence, trade-offs, competing priorities
• Technical Leadership, planning & organization skills, work planning through Agile tools (ADO, JIRA), plan technical debt resolution, continuous improvements
• Experience with Application Insights, Log Analytics, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting and telemetry-driven troubleshooting.