Full Stack Developer [AQ-12772]
About the role
Partner with Aquent to join a world-renowned leader known for groundbreaking innovation and a commitment to excellence. This organization is at the forefront of shaping how people interact with technology, creating intuitive and powerful experiences that touch millions globally. As a pivotal member of this team, you will drive efficiency and innovation, making a tangible impact on critical business operations and empowering teams with powerful, intuitive data tools.
You will design and develop cutting-edge, end-to-end data applications that redefine how critical business operations function. This includes building interactive frontends, robust middleware services, and scalable data-serving APIs. You will automate manual processes, significantly increasing efficiency for a central function, and make complex data products accessible to a wide audience. Operating with high autonomy, you will drive features from conception to delivery within a fast-paced, two-week sprint cycle, collaborating across product and analytics teams to deliver impactful solutions. This role offers a dynamic blend of hands-on engineering (70%) and strategic technical leadership (30%).
Responsibilities
- Design and develop end-to-end data applications, encompassing interactive frontends, middleware services, and data-serving APIs.
- Lead development efforts on client-facing and middle layers, utilizing React and Node.js.
- Develop robust API layers using Python and frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
- Design and implement relational database schemas, primarily with PostgreSQL.
- Deploy applications on cloud services, leveraging infrastructure as code principles.
- Operate with high autonomy, independently researching, executing, and delivering features within a two-week sprint cycle.
- Collaborate effectively with product and analytics teams to gather requirements and deliver impactful solutions.
- Provide technical solutions architecture, including setting technical direction, enforcing best practices, and defining design patterns.
- Automate manual processes to significantly increase the overall efficiency of a central function.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience in software delivery, with a comprehensive understanding of every layer of the web stack. This is a hands-on role; pure solutions or technical architects will not be considered.
- Strong frontend engineering experience building production-grade web applications with React.
- Experience developing middleware and backend services with Node.js.
- Proficiency with Python and frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
- Strong working knowledge of PostgreSQL or other relational databases (NoSQL or graph databases are not relevant for this role).
- Familiarity with deploying applications on cloud services and managing infrastructure via infrastructure as code tools.
- Proven ability to act as a self-starter, excelling at independent research and driving features to completion without heavy supervision.
- Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and independently solve complex technical challenges.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience building applications for marketing functions or working within digital ad agencies / tech marketing groups.
Benefits
Eligible talent get access to amazing benefits through Aquent Talent, including:
- Subsidized health, vision, and dental plans.
- Paid sick leave.
- Retirement plans with a company match.
- Free online training through Aquent Gymnasium.
About the Client
Our client is a global leader in consumer technology, renowned for redefining the intersection of hardware, software, and services. Known for their uncompromising commitment to world-class design and user experience, they create products that have become essential to daily life. You will be joining a team that values craftsmanship and simplicity, working on high-impact projects that reach hundreds of millions of people worldwide.