Full Stack Developer [AQ-13540]

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. You will design and develop cutting-edge, end-to-end data applications that redefine how critical business operations function, including interactive frontends, robust middleware services, and scalable data-serving APIs. This role involves automating manual processes to significantly increase efficiency for a central function and making 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. The role offers a dynamic blend of hands-on engineering (70%) and strategic technical leadership (30%), including bridging critical team skill gaps, setting best practices, and defining design patterns for the data application ecosystem.

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

Aquent Talent offers eligible talent access to amazing benefits, 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.