Java Full Stack Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Java Full Stack Engineer

• Work model: Remote (US & Canada)

• Employment: Contract / Full-Time / Contract-to-Hire

Description

Build and ship production-grade software end-to-end, owning features across frontend and backend. Work with TypeScript/React and Node.js/NestJS services, implementing GraphQL APIs and integrating identity, data, and event-driven components.

Responsibilities

• Develop modular, tested backend services using Node.js and NestJS

• Build frontend features with React and TypeScript (component architecture, state management, hooks, performance)

• Design and implement GraphQL schemas, resolvers, and subscriptions; use Apollo client/server

• Apply API gateway patterns (e.g., Apigee or equivalent)

• Optimize PostgreSQL schema and queries

• Integrate authentication via Auth0 (or equivalent)

• Implement event-driven/message-queue patterns using Redis and Kafka (or similar)

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production-grade products end-to-end

• Strong TypeScript/React skills (component architecture, state management, hooks, performance)

• Backend experience with Node.js and NestJS building modular, tested services

• GraphQL experience (schema design, resolvers, subscriptions, Apollo client/server)

• Familiarity with API gateway patterns (Apigee or equivalent)

• Proficiency with PostgreSQL (query optimization, schema design, TypeORM/Prisma)

• Experience with Auth0 (or equivalent identity platforms)

• Familiarity with Redis and Kafka (or similar) for event-driven/message-queue patterns

Benefits

• Remote opportunity covering US & Canada

• Contract, full-time, or contract-to-hire engagement options

Preferred (Not Mandatory)

• Production experience with OpenAI/Google Gemini or other LLM APIs (prompt engineering, rate limiting, fallback handling, cost management)

• Strong architectural thinking and clear technical communication; high autonomy and end-to-end ownership

• Neo4j or other graph database experience

• Snowflake/data warehouse experience with dbt or Airflow

• Optimizely or similar experimentation/feature-management platforms

• Salesforce integration experience

• AWS experience (ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch)

• Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform

• Testing with Vitest, Jest, or Playwright (unit, integration, e2e)