Senior Full Stack Developer

We are open to remote candidates located within CST to BRT time zones.

At Metalab we design some truly groundbreaking products and our engineers help turn those designs into reality. Our engineering team needs your help in getting projects up and running and helping our teams release new products into the wild. To thrive in this role you’ll provide technical expertise and guidance on projects deliver beautiful code develop new skills to adapt to project needs work with cutting-edge web and mobile technologies and show up ready for anything.

We believe the magic happens when you combine thoughtful collaboration strong processes and the freedom for people to be themselves. When you’re comfortable being yourself you do your best work and inspire others to do the same.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate closely with your project team to develop new features and functionality for the products that we deliver across both frontend and backend technologies

• Work with our Product Management team to regularly refine the definition of the work in the product backlog contributing expertise and gaining clarity when needed

• Provide feedback on designs for completeness implementation effort and feasibility

• Collaborate with Product to plan future sprints by contributing to story definition providing work estimates and regularly identifying technical dependencies and blockers

• Understand and advocate for ongoing sprint goals and help motivate our teams to finish sprints on time and with minimal technical debt

• Review your team members' code submissions to ensure our work meets the needs of the project in terms of quality correctness consistency and performance

• Participate in regular shares with client stakeholders on project progress and delivered features and functionality

• Support the engineering department by sharing the technical knowledge you learn with your project teams

• Identify when your project team members are stuck on a technical challenge and offer support

• Produce documentation on methods decisions technical approaches and other contexts to improve the developer experience on our projects

Requirements

• 5+ years of Full Stack experience with expertise in Node.js and Python

• Deep appreciation of the design practice and can protect the integrity of design intent without compromising fidelity

• Responds positively to both professional and project-based feedback and can help the team adapt to changing priorities within fast-paced projects

• Organized self-motivated and comfortable advocating for your needs and the needs of the project

You have experience building full-stack applications across both the frontend and service layer using modern Typescript frameworks (ie. React React Native Nest)

• You have experience creating both REST and GraphQL APIs that enable client applications to persist process and retrieve data from various types of databases (ie. PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB DynamoDB)

• You are excited to learn new technologies and adopt new solutions to deliver amazing products and further your depth of knowledge as an engineer and technologist

• You have contributed to technical design discussions and helped evaluate different technical solutions to influence architectural decision-making

• You are comfortable following general Agile delivery methodologies and participating in regularly scheduled standups and ceremonies (we do our best to prioritize progress over process)

Nice to haves

• Experience using ML models and AI services to power real-live products (ie. Google Cloud AI Azure AI AWS AI or Bedrock GPT Dialogflow Claude LangChain)

• Experience implementing ML algorithms with common frameworks in end-to-end applications (ie. TensorFlow Synaptic ML5.js Spark ML)

• Experience in an agency setting