Experience
- software engineering experience
- Proven experience operating production, cloud-native, customer-facing services in a high-throughput environment
- Experience with incident response and on-call operations in production systems
- Track record of delivering features in an agile, fast-paced environment
Technical Skills
Core Frontend
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES2020+)
- Deep experience with React 18 or Preact (component design, hooks, state management)
- Redux Toolkit for state management
- Experience building and optimizing user-facing features with performance in mind
- Familiarity with browser APIs, DOM manipulation, and front-end performance profiling
Core Backend
- Strong Node.js experience (production-scale applications)
- TypeScript for backend services
- RESTful and/or gRPC API design and implementation
- Database experience with Firestore and/or similar NoSQL systems
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) production services: Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub
- Experience with Cloud Run Jobs and scheduled/async processing
Infrastructure & DevOps
- Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code principles (managing GCP resources)
- Cloudflare Workers (edge computing, serverless functions)
- GitHub and GitHub Actions (CI/CD pipelines, branch protection, automated testing)
- Docker containerization and deployment concepts
- Comfortable working with cloud networking, load balancing, and security groups
Tooling & Practices
- Nx monorepo management (workspace tooling, build optimization)
- Vitest for unit testing
- Playwright for end-to-end testing
- gRPC (optional but valuable)
- Observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Sentry, application logging
Git workflow (conventional commits, PR reviews, protected branches)
