Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Location: Boulder CO (hybrid)

Earnings Note: cash bonus not reflected in salary range.   

Type: Full-time 

About WellcomeMat

WellcomeMat is a profitable video marketing platform and recognized leader in real estate video. Trusted by hundreds of thousands of agents leading brokerages major search sites production companies and multiple listing services we help real-estate professionals create manage and distribute quality video content that reaches millions of consumers every month.

Now entering our next growth phase we’re investing heavily in AI-powered automation and modernization — building smarter tools cleaner systems and more efficient workflows that empower our users and our own engineering teams alike.

We’re looking for builder-centric humble and data-driven teammates like ourselves.

About the role

As Senior Full-Stack Engineer at WellcomeMat you will take ownership of major parts of our core application stack — from scalable Laravel-based backend systems to modern high-performance React interfaces.

You’ll play a key role in modernizing our codebase reducing technical debt and introducing AI-driven efficiencies across development QA and deployment. This position combines hands-on engineering excellence with technical leadership and offers direct impact on how our platform evolves over the next decade.

You’ll work closely with the CEO and senior leadership today and with a forthcoming Product Manager and Architect as the team expands.

Key responsibilities:

Backend leadership

• Lead development of core backend systems built on Laravel PHP MySQL and Redis.
• Modernize existing services eliminate legacy bottlenecks and improve overall scalability.
• Architect data pipelines and integrations with MLS RETS and RESO APIs.
• Enhance our video processing systems and optimize media delivery performance.
• Collaborate with DevOps to strengthen CI/CD pipelines Docker environments and cloud deployments (AWS Rackspace).
• Improve monitoring observability and error-handling processes for reliability at scale.

Frontend ownership

• Oversee React- and TypeScript-based front-end applications guiding component architecture and design integration.
• Maintain UI quality and performance while implementing new user-facing functionality.
• Partner with Product and Design teams to deliver intuitive high-impact experiences.
• Ensure browser security accessibility and responsiveness across devices.

AI and automation initiatives

• Integrate AI/ML tools that enhance engineering productivity and product intelligence.
• Introduce AI-driven CI/CD and QA automation (e.g. GitHub Copilot CI intelligent code review automated test generation).
• Evaluate and prototype AI workflows that reduce manual testing monitoring and deployment overhead.
• Collaborate with leadership to define how AI transforms internal efficiency and future product capabilities.

Collaboration and leadership

• Serve as a senior technical voice within the organization mentoring peers and modeling best practices.
• Participate in roadmap planning balancing quick delivery with long-term system health.
• Partner with leadership on architecture and infrastructure decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience ideally in SaaS or high-traffic media environments.
• Deep proficiency in PHP (Laravel) MySQL and Redis.
• Strong command of React TypeScript JavaScript HTML5 and CSS.
• Proven ability to design and scale systems handling large volumes of media and metadata.
• Hands-on experience with Docker CI/CD and cloud infrastructure (AWS Rackspace).
• Familiarity with video processing tools and content-delivery optimization.
• Solid understanding of API integrations (REST JSON XML).
• Experience with GitHub best practices — PR workflows code reviews branching discipline.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Self-starter mindset: comfortable leading initiatives making decisions and iterating quickly.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating AI/ML features (OpenAI API LangChain AWS AI services etc.).
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and AI-based QA tools.
• Background in video media or marketing-tech platforms.

Why you’ll love working here

• Profitable product-driven company where your work has immediate visible impact.
• Authority to influence architecture and introduce new technologies.
• Supportive collaborative culture built on trust craftsmanship and results.
• Direct collaboration with leadership on innovation and strategy.
• Competitive compensation and flexibility within a hybrid environment.

Perks and benefits

• 401(k) with company match — invest confidently in your future.
• Healthcare stipend — choose the coverage that works best for you instead of a one-size-fits-all plan.
• Accelerated advancement opportunities — grow with a profitable company entering its next stage of innovation.
• Founder-led profitable and growing — not investor-controlled; your work directly drives impact.

Cash Bonus — share in the long-term success you help build.

What We Do

WellcomeMat is making sure there are videos answering every question consumers have when looking for new places to live work and play. Our software and API is the most relied upon media platform in real estate powering video for thousands agents many of the industry’s leading brokerages/brands and over 5000 video production companies nationwide.