Full Stack Engineer
First seen by Alion on Aug 29, 2026.
Role Overview:
Seeking a Full Stack Engineer with strong experience across frontend and backend development to build scalable, reliable, and high-performing digital products. The role involves working closely with product, design, and engineering teams to turn ideas into production-ready features. Strong ownership, engineering judgment, and the ability to work across the technology stack are essential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications across frontend and backend.
- Build responsive, high-performance user interfaces.
- Develop robust APIs, backend services, and third-party integrations.
- Design and optimize databases, queries, and data models.
- Translate product requirements into clean and maintainable technical solutions.
- Write well-tested, reusable, and production-ready code.
- Identify and resolve performance, reliability, and scalability challenges.
- Collaborate with product and design teams to improve functionality and user experience.
- Participate in architecture discussions and technical decision-making.
- Conduct code reviews and maintain engineering quality standards.
- Monitor production applications and proactively resolve technical issues.
- Contribute to testing, deployment, CI/CD, and development process improvements.
Required Skills:
- 36 years of professional software development experience.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience with React.js or a modern frontend framework.
- Strong backend development experience using Node.js, Java, Python, or equivalent.
- Experience designing and consuming REST APIs.
- Strong understanding of SQL and relational databases.
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, testing, and deployment practices.
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, data structures, APIs, and system design.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex technical problems independently.
Good to Have:
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience working with microservices.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queues.
- Experience with application performance optimization and observability.
- Exposure to AI-enabled applications or LLM integrations.
- Experience in a startup or high-growth product environment.
What Makes a Strong Fit:
- Takes ownership beyond assigned tasks.
- Comfortable working across frontend and backend systems.
- Thinks about scalability, reliability, and maintainability while building.
- Understands product requirements beyond individual features.
- Makes practical and well-reasoned technical decisions.
- Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Enjoys solving complex and ambiguous engineering problems.
- Comfortable taking a feature from concept to production.
Skills
Javascript, TypeScript, React.js, Node.js, Full Stack, Java, Google Cloud Platform, Azure