Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Theme Park Focused)

CourtAvenue is a fast-growing creative technology agency that creates immersive and interactive experiences. They are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to drive technological innovation for clients in the business-to-consumer space, crafting cutting-edge interactive experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and ship production-grade systems end-to-end - frontend, backend, infrastructure, and the operational glue in between - on time, on budget, and at high quality
• Own technical decisions on architecture, cloud topology, observability, deployment, and security for the projects you lead
• Write secure, resilient, well-tested code, and hold the bar on code review for the people you work alongside
• Debug hard problems - production incidents, performance regressions, concurrency bugs, distributed systems weirdness - and write up what you learn so the team gets stronger
• Build prototypes and proofs of concept to learn quickly (hours, not days), validate ideas, and de-risk technical decisions before committing to a direction
• Mentor teammates and serve as the rubber duck for tougher technical problems. Make the people around you better
• Research new technologies and tools and contribute to refining team processes and engineering practices to deliver excellence
• Provide rough effort estimates and technical scope on new opportunities, and occasionally help present technical options to client stakeholders

Requirements:

• Full-stack development experience (REST APIs, backend, DB modeling, CI/CD, Web UX/UI, HTML/CSS, mobile responsive)
• Ability to design and develop highly reliable, fault-tolerant systems, and to lean on AI tools to produce high-quality production-ready code
• Proficiency in Linux/MacOS command-line tools and Bash shell scripting (Linux Server or MacOS power-user level)
• Proficiency in automated testing and unit testing
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code
• Experience with databases
• 5+ years of industry experience required; 7+ years preferred
• GitHub is required - you must have an OSS repo that demonstrates your skills!
• IDE with an agent, and a debugger with and without an agent. You should be fluent in both modes
• Node.js with TypeScript, including deep async/await fluency
• Linux server power user
• Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Ansible, etc
• Cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP. Specifically: load balancers, VMs, security, cloud storage, cost estimation, cloud networking topologies, and cloud auto-scaling
• Logging and observability, including event pipelines (EventHub, Firehose, etc.)
• Web frontend: React (and associated tooling like Webpack)
• Docker - building Dockerfiles with complex setups and multi-phase builds
• Docker Swarm - and you must hide your secrets!
• RabbitMQ & Message Patterns
• NoSQL DBs - Postgres, MongoDB, DocumentDB experience
• OpenAPI / Swagger
• Secure code - understanding of WEB & API attack vectors
• Distributed processing - concurrency, race conditions, parallel processing
• Caching services - programming for CDNs, ETAGs, etc
• Test frameworks - Chai, Mocha, or similar
• Multi-lingual - English / Spanish / Japanese. (Japanese fluency is a huge edge!)
• Mobile / Desktop: Flutter (and other mobile tech - React Native, Swift, Kotlin)
• MQTT or other message bus experience
• Python
• Orlando-based
• Kubernetes
• ClickUp experience
• Broader database experience
• AsyncAPI
• CMS dev and integration experience - Contentstack, especially
• Load testing - k6 or similar, plus architecting for load
• Redis cache or similar
• Advanced DevOps, cloud CI/CD, Ansible, and extensive container deployments at scale
• Background in test-driven design