Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

Youngsoft, Inc. ( is a global software solutions IT company, delivering digital enterprise business betterment since 1996. Through collaborative engagement and discovery with our clients and vendors, we co-create industry specialized digital products, applications software, process, programs, and project outcomes. Headquartered in metro-Detroit, we leverage "pods" of Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Solutions Architects, Software Engineers, and Project Managers, fused with HyperCare through our Global Support Centers. Through inclusivity, we share a singular vision to deliver world-class measurable upside results to our customers. It takes a village – come join ours!

The Role

You will work on high-impact products that help put education within everyone’s reach. In this role you will:
Have the freedom to leverage the right tools and languages to solve problems. Current technologies include AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Python, Vue.js, and GitHub/GitLab.
Develop and deploy software through an automated continuous delivery pipeline supporting over 200 production deployments per week.
See the impact of your work as it is put in front of millions of users.
Contribute to open source initiatives. We actively give back to the community whenever possible.

Responsibilities

·        Participate as an empowered member of a collaborative Agile team to design, develop, and maintain high-performance applications.

·        Leverage continuous deployment and test automation tools to deploy application changes to production multiple times per day.

·        Interact with internal and external customers to understand their needs and drive the development of web applications to meet those needs.

·        Implement rich, interactive web applications using modern technologies, frameworks, and design patterns.

·        Leverage web analytics to support Product Discovery and measure project KPIs.

·        Test, measure, and optimize performance using Application Performance Management tools.

·        Participate in the on-call rotation as a first point of contact for applications you own.

·        Demonstrate leadership skills by mentoring team members and advocating for new technologies, methodologies, and engineering best practices.

·        Participate in analysis of pricing, risk/reward, cost advantages, and resourcing to support technological improvements.

Experience and Skills Required

·        5 years of experience as a full-stack software engineer building large-scale, distributed web applications.

·        Experience with cloud infrastructure services, particularly AWS.

·        Experience with serverless and event-driven architectures.

·        Experience creating and operating backend services using Python with frameworks such as FastAPI.

·        Experience developing user-facing applications using Vue.js.

·        Experience designing and managing APIs used by multiple teams using REST or GraphQL.

·        Experience using a decentralized version control system such as Git in a collaborative environment (GitHub or GitLab).

·        Experience building and operating containerized applications, particularly in a Kubernetes environment using Docker.

·        Familiarity with testing frameworks such as pytest, Jest, or Playwright and test-driven development practices.

·        Experience mentoring other engineers both technically and professionally.

·        Strong communication skills, thoughtfulness, and a desire to give and receive regular feedback.

Nice to Have

·        Experience leveraging AI development practices and tools to improve software development workflows or product capabilities.

·        Experience contributing to open-source projects.

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