Job description
Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack)
Company Overview
Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams, and organizations. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers.
Job Summary
We are looking for a talented Senior Fullstack Software Engineer to join a high-performing product engineering team focused on building scalable, modern cloud-native applications. This role is best suited to an experienced engineer who is stronger on the backend (approximately 70% backend / 30% frontend) and enjoys designing robust distributed systems while still being comfortable contributing across the full stack. You will play a key role in shaping technical direction, building scalable event-driven platforms, and contributing to product thinking - not just delivering code.
Key Responsibilities
- Designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript
- Developing and supporting modern frontend applications using React and Next.js
- Building robust RESTful APIs and backend integrations
- Contributing to distributed, cloud-native systems running on AWS
- Designing and implementing event-driven architectures and queue-based systems
- Working with SQL databases including MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Driving engineering best practices, scalability, reliability, and performance improvements
- Collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and stakeholders to shape technical solutions
- Taking ownership of features and systems throughout the full software lifecycle
- Mentoring engineers and contributing to technical discussions and architectural decisions
Requirements / Qualifications
- Strong experience as a Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer in modern product-focused environments
- Excellent backend development experience with: Node.js, TypeScript, REST APIs
- Strong frontend experience with: React, Next.js, TypeScript
- Experience building applications in AWS cloud environments (or other cloud platforms)
- Strong understanding of scalable and distributed system design
- Commercial experience working with: MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Proven experience building event-driven architectures and working with queuing/messaging systems (highly important)
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and scalable code
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
Location
Remote (European Economic Area - please do not apply if you are based outside the European Union / Ukraine)
Employment Type
Contract
