Staff Full Stack Engineer

Job Description

HumanSignal is seeking a talented Staff Full Stack Engineer who thrives on building end-to-end solutions that empower our platform's user experience while ensuring scalability and reliability on the backend. As a Full Stack Engineer, you will work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to develop robust, intuitive, and performant web applications. You will have the opportunity to influence the entire technology stack, from database architecture to user interfaces, playing a crucial role in delivering value to our rapidly growing user base. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy the challenges of working across the entire stack and are passionate about creating impactful software that democratizes data labeling through AI and automation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain both backend services and frontend components of our data labeling platform, ensuring high performance, scalability, and excellent user experience.
• Design and build RESTful APIs and other backend services to support new and existing features, ensuring seamless integration with the frontend.
• Create and maintain responsive and accessible user interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks, focusing on delivering intuitive and user-friendly experiences.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to translate requirements and mockups into complete solutions that align with our business goals.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and contribute throughout the entire development process, from ideation to production deployment.
• Identify and implement areas of improvement across both frontend and backend codebases, driving changes that enhance the overall quality and maintainability of our platform.
• Establish and uphold best practices, coding standards, and development guidelines for both frontend and backend systems.
• Mentor all engineers across the stack, providing guidance on best practices, code quality, scalable and performant system design and professional growth.

What You'll Bring

• Extensive experience developing full stack applications, with proficiency in both backend (Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Scala, Rust) and frontend (React, Angular, Vue.js) technologies.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (ES6+), with a focus on cross-browser compatibility, accessibility principles, and delivering high-quality, maintainable code.
• Proven experience building and integrating scalable backend services and APIs, with expertise in frameworks like FastAPI, Django, or similar.
• Familiarity with database systems (Postgres, BigQuery) and experience working with streaming event and messaging architectures (Kafka, Spark).
• Comfort working across the entire stack, including state management libraries (Redux, Vuex), frontend build tools (Webpack, Vite), and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).
• High user empathy, a keen eye for design, and a drive to build intuitive interfaces that solve real user problems.
• A passion for impactful communication and collaboration, leveraging tools like TDDs, code reviews, and constructive feedback to drive team success.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving with the ability to work independently and manage complex projects from inception to completion.
• BSCS, related degree, or equivalent practical experience.

Languages, Frameworks, and Technologies We Use

• OpenAI API, Spark, BigQuery, Python, Django, Kafka, JS, Typescript, React, Jest, Cypress, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres & Redis

Within 1 Week, You'll:

• Setup your development environment, and enhance the self-serve documentation and workflows to ensure it's pristine and effective.
• Meet your buddy, team, key stakeholders and the founders.
• Participate in team meetings and get close to the sprint in progress.

Within 1 Month, You'll:

• Make multiple production contributions, across small features, enhancements and bug fixes as you ramp up on codebase, systems, workflows, and product.
• Give feedback in retrospectives, bringing in your experiences and a desire to build a world class engineering team.
• Review multiple pull requests, and leverage your convictions as a software engineer to see design patterns, code style and syntax upheld.
• Resolve multiple engineering dependent customer support requests—quickly get to the root cause and resolve complex technical issues.

Within 3 Months, You'll:

• Independently drive and fully own development and delivery of complex features, and present on them in company meetings.
• Review PRDs and lead creation or review of TDDs, Experience and give feedback across a quarterly OKRs cycle, and help the team understand and plan its next quarter commitments.
• Continue to engineering team to improve our velocity and predictability.
• Contribute to our industry leading Open Source products and community (with over 20K+ users).
• Mentor and guide junior engineers.

Within 6 Months, You'll:

• Take the lead and own major features collaborating with other engineers for successful delivery.
• Leverage your experience to work closely with Product Management, Engineering and Customer Support staff to identify, document and help resolve technical issues and product feature/functionality gaps.
• Support and help grow the open source community through your participation in meet-ups, design/code camps and technical speaking engagements.
• You will play a key role in shipping highly scalable products and the next evolution in labeling software.

In 1 Year, You'll:

• Continue delivering increasingly complex projects.
• Play an active role in advancing your career to the next level.

At HumanSignal, we pay based on regional compensation market rate ranges across the globe. We are hiring for this role across North and South America as well as Europe. The base cash compensation range is $150,000 to $210,000 USD. These ranges are provided by market data and are in good faith. The final offer details are determined by several factors including candidate experience, expertise, as well as applicable industry knowledge and may vary from the pay ranges listed above.

It is an exciting time at HumanSignal, we are a growing startup and at this stage we are constantly evolving. While we have put a lot of thought into your first and most important initiatives, it's only an example and something we will work on together. We're always learning and growing, so like us this role will evolve and expand. We hope that this opportunity sounds exciting to you and that you consider joining us on our journey!