Full Stack Engineer

What youll do As a Full-Stack Software Engineer at SuperAwesome, youll be part of a mission-driven team building high-quality, scalable products that make the internet safer for the next generation. Youll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver impactful featuresprimarily on the backend, but with opportunities to contribute across the full stack. Youll help design and build services that power key areas of our platform, ensuring privacy, resilience, and performance are built in from day one. Our engineers take ownership of the entire development lifecyclefrom technical design and implementation to monitoring and continuous improvement. Youll help shape engineering best practices, support your teammates, and drive the evolution of systems that serve hundreds of millions of users globally. In this role you will Youll be accountable for: Creating digital experiences that are safe and empowering for young audiences Designing and implementing features and services for one of SuperAwesomes key products Maintaining high levels of code quality, test coverage, and operational visibility Building backend-heavy systems while contributing across the full stack where needed Ensuring system performance, reliability, and scalability as usage grows Helping break complex problems into simple, maintainable deliverables Supporting the product in production, including participation in our on-call rota Writing clear technical documentation and participating in architecture reviews Championing DevOps culturetreating infrastructure as code and owning deployments Our Stack Were a cloud-native engineering team working with: Languages: Node.js, TypeScript, (and increasingly Python) Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes Data & Messaging: Kafka, Postgres, event-driven architectures, Databricks (DBX) What were looking for You dont need to tick every box to apply, but heres what we value: Core experience Proven experience building high-throughput web systems or distributed services Strong programming skills in Node.js/TypeScript, with working knowledge of Python Experience working across the full software lifecyclefrom design to deployment and support Familiarity with DevOps practices and cloud-native infrastructure (CI/CD, Terraform, etc.) Awareness of security best practices in cloud environments A pragmatic approach to testing, quality, and documentation Great communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional teams Nice to have Wed love to hear about any of the following: Engineering for Scale & Resilience Distributed Systems & Microservices: Experience designing resilient cloud-native systems, strong understanding of service-to-service communication patterns and API lifecycle Automation & Infrastructure: Deep knowledge of Terraform, AWS, and infrastructure automation best practices Observability & Reliability: Familiarity with distributed tracing, Grafana, alerting/monitoring strategies, and incident response tooling AI/ML & Data Platforms Experience with Databricks, ML workflows, or operationalizing data science Comfort with stream processing, event-driven data pipelines, or ingestion framework Data Engineering Proficient in modelling for distributed data systems, data pipeline orchestration, and data quality/governance tooling Product/UX Alignment for Internal Tools Experience building internal tools with a user-centered mindset Comfortable collaborating with product and design teams to improve internal UX Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing practices Why SuperAwesome? SuperAwesome powers the youth digital ecosystem, combining proprietary ad and gaming products, audience insights, and compliance capabilities to power a better internet for the next generation. Working with us means: Making a real-world impact on half a billion users every month Shaping technology at the intersection of law, policy, and innovation Joining a team that values curiosity, creativity, and continuous learning Being part of the #SAFama supportive, inclusive, and diverse community If you're excited about building systems that truly matterand want to work with people who care about doing things rightwed love to hear from you. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role at this time.