Senior Application Developer (MERN / GCP / Technical Lead)This role focuses on the TypeScript-based MERN stack and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) while helping evolve our broader technology ecosystem.
What You'll DoDevelopment & Architecture- Design, build, and support scalable applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js (TypeScript), APIs, and GCP.
- Develop modern web applications, microservices, integrations, and cloud-native solutions deployed via containers to Google Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Kubernetes.
- Lead solution design and contribute to architecture decisions.
- Drive modernization initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
Technical & Project Leadership- Lead technical projects from design through deployment.
- Coordinate work across developers, product teams, and stakeholders.
- Facilitate architecture reviews, planning sessions, and technical decision-making.
- Identify and resolve technical risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges.
Mentorship & Collaboration- Mentor developers through code reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
- Promote engineering best practices including clean architecture, dependency injection, testing, performance, and code quality.
- Partner closely with Product, QA, DevOps, Architecture, and business teams.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues using the observability stack (Sentry, OpenTelemetry, structured logging) and drive continuous improvement.
What We're Looking ForRequired- 7+ years of software development experience.
- Proven experience leading software projects and influencing technical direction.
- Strong, current expertise with TypeScript
- Strong expertise with:
- MongoDB (native Node.js driver; Mongoose a plus)
- js
- React
- js
- Hands-on experience with:
- Dependency injection / IoC containers (InversifyJS or similar)
- Redis-backed job queues (BullMQ or similar) and Google Cloud Tasks / Pub/Sub
- Auth0 / OIDC / JWT-based authentication
- Schema validation with Zod
- Modern React tooling - Redux Toolkit, React Hook Form/Formik, and Material UI (MUI) or similar
- Experience developing and deploying solutions in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Tasks, Pub/Sub, and Secret Manager.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized service deployment.
- Experience building scalable web applications, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience mentoring developers and leading technical discussions.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred- Experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Developer, or Project Lead.
- Experience with payments/card processing, PCI-DSS, or client-side field-level encryption.
- Experience with construction software, ERP systems, financial systems, or expense management solutions.
- Experience building or integrating expense management, AP, invoice processing, procurement, or purchasing applications.
- Experience with feature flag release management
- Experience integrating LLMs / generative AI into production applications
- Familiarity with equivalent technologies on the Azure / .NET / C# stack.
If you enjoy building modern cloud applications, leading technical initiatives, and mentoring others, we'd love to talk with you.
