Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer - Front-End Focused

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.

As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Front-End Focused) on our Enterprise IT team, you will own the design implementation for the consumer-facing web applications that serve as the front door to Stand Together's philanthropic community.

You will build and maintain a Next.js/React Type Script monorepo, implement production-grade UX and performance, integrate with our OpenAPI backend and headless CMS, and ship via CI/CD to AWS Amplify.

The role combines deep front-end engineering, design-system ownership, and operational responsibility for client-side reliability and performance.

• Lead implementation of Next.js (App Router) features, including SSR, SSG, ISR, server components, and image optimization across our high-visibility web properties.
• Design, extend, and maintain a reusable component library and Storybook, serving as the team's authority on design system standards and front-end architecture.
• Integrate client applications with OpenAPI backends and secure authentication flows (JWT/OIDC), ensuring reliability and correctness across auth boundaries.
• Ensure accessibility, test coverage (unit, integration, and e2e), and high performance standards — with Lighthouse and Web Vitals.
• Own CI/CD builds, deployments, and environment configuration for AWS Amplify; collaborate on CDN caching and image transform pipelines.
• Troubleshoot production issues, instrument front-end monitoring, and maintain runbooks and on-call readiness for client-side reliability.
• Contribute to back-end tasks as needed, working closely with the broader engineering team across a Next.js/React Type Script monorepo.
• Mentor engineers on front-end best practices, design system conventions, and performance engineering.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with a clear front-end focus and a portfolio of production-grade work.
• Experience mentoring software engineers.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/Type Script, Python, and PHP.
• Strong Node.js backend experience, preferably with NestJS.
• Experience designing and consuming APIs in distributed or microservices architectures.
• Hands‑on experience with JWT/OIDC authentication, including Auth0 or equivalent, and passport-jwt/JWKS patterns.
• Proven experience with relational (SQL) and No
  
  SQL databases — schema design, query optimization, multi-environment deployments, and operational MongoDB (replication, sharding, performance tuning).
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS (task definitions, logging, ECR).
• Working knowledge of core AWS services:
  Amplify, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, S3, EFS, Cloud Watch, X-Ray, IAM, and VPC.
• Experience building and maintaining automation within cloud-native environments using IaC frameworks (Terraform + Terragrunt).
• CI/CD experience with Git Hub Actions and Git Hub OIDC for secure AWS deployments.
• Observability and production operations experience: logs, metrics, alarms, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with security best practices, including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management.
• Testing and quality discipline across unit, integration, and e2e layers (Jest), with strong linting and formatting standards.
• Experience integrating headless CMS platforms with modern front-end frameworks.
• Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.

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