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Lead Full-Stack Engineer

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 1-10H1B No SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

New York

Posted

82 days ago

Salary

$160K - $180K / year

Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudDynamo DBETLGoogle Cloud PlatformGraph QLJava ScriptMongo DBNext.jsNode.jsNo SQLPostgresPythonReactTerraformType ScriptGo

Job Description

• Within your first six months, partner with Product to improve platform reliability and reduce support load by addressing peak-usage bottlenecks and reworking enrollment, authentication, rostering, and licensing infrastructure. • Own end-to-end system architecture and technical roadmap for CDI’s product suite: application, data flows, integrations, and infrastructure. • Contribute hands-on to front-end and back-end code to unblock delivery, lead critical implementations, and resolve production issues. • Drive and operate CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability/monitoring, and alerting. • Establish and cultivate engineering best practices (code review, branching, documentation, security)—providing technical oversight of our agency partner and mentoring incoming junior engineers as the team scales. • Partner closely with Product, Research, and Implementation to translate CDI’s evidence-based curricula into scalable, usable digital experiences. • Ensure secure and privacy-conscious handling of user and institutional data; work with Product and Operations to align on compliance and data policies. • Communicate technical choices and tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Job Requirements

8+ years building full-stack web apps with clear ownership of production systems and architecture;
2+ years of proven tech-lead experience (running a small squad, owning delivery, mentoring engineers).
Strong front-end and back-end skills (React + TypeScript preferred; Node.js, Python, or Go acceptable).
History with Next.js (App Router), TailwindCSS, and Auth.js / NextAuth or similar.
Production cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform / Pulumi), automated deployments, and operational runbooks.
Practical experience with NoSQL document stores (DynamoDB, MongoDB or similar) and relational DBs (Postgres or similar).
Experience unifying and syncing data across siloed systems (ETL/transform, deduplication, reconciliation), building user-sync pipelines (OAuth, webhooks, idempotent syncs), and working with GraphQL & REST integrations.
Strong practices in authentication/authorization and RBAC, encryption, secrets management, and familiarity with privacy/compliance basics.
Implemented logs/metrics/tracing, run incident response and postmortems, and reduced operational risk.
Able to translate product and research requirements into pragmatic technical plans and explain tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
Commitment to CDI’s mission and to working within a mission-driven non-profit.

Benefits

$160,000 - $180,000
A Mission-Driven Culture — we practice what we preach, so our work culture is characterized by intellectual humility, continuous improvement, and open-mindedness.
Remote-First — CDI was founded as a remote-first organization, and we work hard to maintain a strong team culture across vast distances.
Unlimited PTO — as well as 13 company holidays.
Remote Work Support — up to $500 reimbursed for home office equipment (like desks, chairs, or webcams) and up to $50/month reimbursed for home internet or cell phone expenses.
Other Benefits — employer-supported health, vision and dental plans, subsidized parental leave, 3% 401k match, short- and long-term disability insurance, life and AD&D insurance, $1,000 annual professional development budget.