Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Role Overview

Join Virtuous as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (fully remote). You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and maintain web applications, and own high-impact areas of the platform with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability.

Key Missions

• Conceive, design, and implement scalable web applications.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to understand user needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Own the performance and scalability of the data layer, including:
  • indexing
  • query optimization
  • connection pooling

Responsibilities & Expectations

• Build and maintain application features end-to-end across backend and frontend.
• Integrate with RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Apply DevOps fundamentals to ensure production-readiness and stable operations (CI/CD, monitoring, scaling under load).
• Use observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) to debug and prevent production issues.
• Incorporate AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) as part of the regular development workflow.
• Define and work toward reliability targets using SLOs/SLIs.

Requirements

• 6+ years building modern web applications and running/scaling them in production.
• Deep expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL), including tuning (indexing, query optimization) and scaling strategies (e.g., read replicas, partitioning, connection pooling).
• Strong Python skills and experience with Django (or similar frameworks).
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one frontend framework such as React or Vue.
• Experience with CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure monitoring, and scaling services under real load.
• Comfort with observability (metrics/logs/traces/alerts) and using it to prevent production issues.
• Experience operating cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or modern PaaS deployment.
• Experience with a SaaS or B2B product environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience defining/working with SLOs/SLIs.
• Open-source contributions or technical writing.
• Familiarity with C# / .NET.
• Prior experience in nonprofit tech.
• Ability and interest in helping teams grow and mature engineering practices.