Junior Full Stack Software Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a Junior-level full-stack engineer with strong backend fundamentals who can build, ship, and maintain production features. You will work with APIs, webhooks, payments, and external integrations. You don’t need to be a systems architect — but you must be comfortable owning features end-to-end.

Responsibilities

As a junior-level engineer, you will:

• Implement backend services using Node.js (TypeScript preferred)

• Build and integrate REST APIs and external services (Stripe, Shopify, etc.)

• Develop and maintain user-facing UI with React

• Integrate data from internal & external APIs

• Handle webhooks, async tasks, and error flows

• Participate in code reviews and testing

• Debug production issues (logs, requests, queries)

• Write documentation for features you ship

• Collaborate with product and engineering on technical scoping

Required Skills & Experience

You should have real production experience with:

Backend

• Strong with Node.js

• Experience building REST APIs

• Understanding of authentication, sessions, cookies, JWT

• Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred)

• Experience with database queries, indexing, migrations

• Familiarity with queues / retries / webhooks

Payments / Integrations

• Experience working with Stripe or similar payments

• Understanding of payment flows (checkout, subscriptions, retries, 3DS, etc.)

• Experience consuming or integrating external APIs

Frontend

• Strong enough with React to build/modify production components

• Familiarity with state management (Context/Redux/Zustand/React Query)

• Comfortable with API-driven UI

Infrastructure / DevOps basics

• Comfortable with Git

• Experience with Docker or cloud deployment workflows (AWS, Railway, etc.)

• Ability to debug via logs, metrics, CI/CD pipelines