Director of Software Engineering at Acuity leading AI - enabled digital commerce platform development and transforming user experience with modern architecture.
About the role
- Senior Full Stack Engineer focusing on full-stack solutions for PlayOn's high school event platform. Leading development in a hybrid work environment with a focus on APIs and web features.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship React + TypeScript features that power HQ’s most important user-facing workflows.
- Collaborate with product and design to turn requirements into cohesive UI architecture, reusable components, and predictable delivery.
- Design and implement APIs—primarily in Java/Spring Boot—that support the HQ web experience, with a focus on stability, versioning, and good developer ergonomics.
- Work comfortably across services in Java and collaborate with teams or codebases in Go, TypeScript, and Python as needed.
- Build and evolve event-driven workflows with reliable publishing/consumption patterns and thoughtful schema discipline.
- Apply strong database fundamentals with PostgreSQL, including data modeling, query performance awareness, and safe migration practices.
- Strengthen CI/CD and deployment safety using AWS, EKS, and a GitOps approach.
- Improve quality with a balanced test strategy across UI, API, integration, and contract/e2e layers.
- Mentor engineers and provide high-signal code review and technical direction for contractors.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, including shipping full-stack web features at scale.
- Strong, production experience with React + TypeScript, including building maintainable UI architecture and reusable component patterns.
- Strong skills in Java (Spring Boot) and experience designing and implementing APIs.
- Solid experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
- Experience with event-driven architecture and data fan-out technologies like Kafka.
- Strong familiarity with AWS and cloud-native practices, especially EKS.
- Experience with CI/CD and comfort with GitOps-style delivery.
- A practical understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Confidence guiding mixed teams (FTE + contractors) with clear specs, reference patterns, and consistent review standards.
- Golang experience is a plus, along with familiarity with Python services.
Benefits
- Multiple medical insurance plans to choose from
- Dental, vision life and disability insurance
- Employee Emergency Fund
- Company equity (stock options)
- Open PTO policy
- 401K plan with company match
- Hybrid/flexible work environment
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