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What is a Senior Full Stack Engineer? A Comprehensive Guide to Roles and Specializations

A Senior Full Stack Engineer is an experienced software developer who possesses expertise in both frontend (client-side) and backend (server-side) development.

They are capable of designing, building, and maintaining entire web applications, from the user interface to the server infrastructure.

As seasoned professionals, they play a critical role in bridging the gap between design and functionality, ensuring seamless integration across all layers of an application.

Location:

Austin, Huston, Dallas, El Paso, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Jacksonville, Miami, United States, Columbus, Atlanta, Savannah, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Boise, Fairfax, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Arlington, Richmond, Norfolk, Seattle, Denver, Oklahoma City, Nashville, Washington, D.C., New York City, Reno, Las Vegas, Boston, Chicago, Phoenix, Philadelphia

Core Responsibilities of a Senior Full Stack Engineer

1. End-to-End Application Development: Senior Full Stack Engineers handle everything from designing user interfaces to managing databases and server logic.
2. Code Quality Assurance: They ensure high-quality, maintainable code by implementing best practices, conducting code reviews, and performing testing.
3. System Architecture Design: They design scalable, secure, and efficient architectures for web applications.
4. Collaboration Across Teams: They work closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver cohesive solutions.
5. Mentorship and Leadership: Senior engineers often mentor junior developers and guide them in technical decision-making.
6. Performance Optimization: They optimize application performance by improving load times, reducing resource consumption, and enhancing user experience.

Key Skills for Senior Full Stack Engineers

To succeed as a Senior Full Stack Engineer, mastering the following skills is essential:

• Frontend Technologies: Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Backend Technologies: Expertise in server-side languages such as Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, or PHP, along with frameworks like Express.js, Django, or Spring Boot.
• Database Management: Knowledge of relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) databases.
• Version Control Systems: Strong command of Git for collaborative coding and version management.
• API Development: Ability to design and integrate RESTful APIs or GraphQL endpoints.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for deploying and scaling applications.
• DevOps Practices: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).

The Job

Software powers the world, and we empower all teams to deliver and control the best software.

As a Backend Engineer, you will help us build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems.

Our platform serves over twenty trillion feature flags daily.

The core technologies we use daily include Golang, Redis, and NATS. As part of our you-build-it-you-run-it culture, all developers may be responsible for supporting applications in production, including on-call.

Off-hours on-call is optional and compensated in addition.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product managers, other engineers, and designers to drive the implementation and release of major features
• Monitor and improve server-side performance
• Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Write and review technical proposals
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Qualifications:

• You're a Full Stack engineer, but comfortable with at least 40-50% Backend focus.
• Demonstrable experience with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang).
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as React.
• Experience building RESTful APIs.
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale production systems.
• Familiarity with computer science fundamentals such as data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading.
• A commitment to working in a communicative and collaborative environment.
• You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability.
• You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
• A familiarity with networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, websockets, server-sent events, etc.).

Compensation

Our compensation scheme is based on geography and level of experience, from $127,000 to $204,000, with RSUs, health, vision, dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.