Senior Full Stack Engineer

Are you an experienced full stack engineer with a passion for building meaningful solutions for a high growth business? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where your ideas and expertise can shape the future? If you're ready to elevate your career and be a key contributor to an elite team, we want to meet you! At Work Shield, we’re assembling a team of dedicated professionals who are committed to transforming the workplace through technology, data, and integrity.

Work Shield is seeking a full-time Senior Full Stack Engineer II to join our development team in Dallas, Texas. As the only end-to-end solution for managing, investigating, and resolving workplace misconduct, Work Shield partners with organizations to create safer, more positive work environments. Our growth is fueled by an entrepreneurial mindset and values centered on commitment, collaboration, and innovation. Join us in pioneering a new standard for how organizations address workplace integrity, empowering employees and leaders alike to foster workplaces of trust and accountability.

This in-office position will lead the design, development, and optimization of our user-facing web application. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical foundation with 7+ years of experience. In this role, you will focus on architecting, developing, and scaling intuitive, responsive, and accessible user interfaces. You’ll leverage your expertise to improve performance and implement best practices to ensure a seamless and engaging user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Architect & Implement: Lead the design of scalable, secure, end-to-end web architectures, balancing technical feasibility with a premium user experience.
• Build High-Performance Services: Develop backend APIs and services using Rust, Node.js, and Python (FastAPI), optimizing for efficiency and high availability.
• Craft Modern UIs: Design and implement responsive, data-driven interfaces using Modern React and specialized UI libraries like Ant Design, Tailwind, Bootstrap, and High Charts
  .
• Innovate with AI: Integrate LLMs and intelligent features using ChatGPT, Llama Index (multi-agent workflows), and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
• Manage Data: Design and tune performance for MySQL, Mongo
  
  DB, and Redis
  , while exploring the frontier of Vector Databases (Chroma
  
  DB).
• Technical Leadership: Drive the technical roadmap, mentor junior/mid-level engineers, and establish coding standards and workflows.
• Optimize & Scale: Refactor existing codebases for maximum performance and security, ensuring robust authentication (JWT) and real-time communication via Web Sockets
  .

The Toolkit

We are looking for 7+ years of experience across a modern, sophisticated stack:

• Frontend: React (Hooks/Context), Redux/Sagas, React Query, Graph
  
  QL, and CSS preprocessors.
• AI & Data: RAG, Prompt Engineering, Model Fine-tuning, and Vector DBs (Chroma/Pinecone).
• Databases: MySQL (Schema Design/Indexing), Mongo
  
  DB, Chroma
  
  DB, and Redis.
• Infrastructure: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (TDD), Git, and Web bundlers (Vite/Webpack).

Bonus Points

• Experience with SSR strategies (Next.js) and custom UI/UX library design.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice orchestration.
• A passion for high-performance systems and building robust, automated testing strategies in Rust or Python.
• Experience managing and mentoring teams.

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

This position pays up to $120,000, based on experience.