Senior Full-Stack Sveltekit Software Developer

Vynyl’s technologists, designers and product strategists are experts at system modernization, new product development, and rescuing projects in distress. We use the best cloud-native and AI-enabled tools, and apply a battle-tested combination of Agile, Lean, and design thinking to collaboratively solve our client’s most pressing challenges - and do it right the first time. We often work in regulated industries, such as healthcare, financial services, government and education.

Our work helps detect diseases, identify kids who need special educational support, applies AI to support complex legal settlements, helps people access mental health services, and so much more.

The ideal candidate will be a strong collaborator with deep expertise in modern web application development technologies and practices. The focus of this role is on building and maintaining robust, scalable, and high-performance applications across the full stack using Type Script. This role will have a heavy emphasis on frontend work using the Svelte framework.

As a Full-Stack Developer, you'll be working with a group of project managers, designers, and other engineers to build great software and sustainable infrastructure on behalf of our client.

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of complex features across both the frontend and backend of our clients’ products.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Collaborate with other team members to set technical standards, establish best practices, and make architecture decisions.
• Actively research and evaluate new technologies, tools, and methodologies to improve the engineering process.
• Demonstrate and articulate a practical understanding of AI tools (e.g., planning, code generation, intelligent testing frameworks) in daily engineering tasks, including their effective application and inherent limitations.

• 7+ years of experience in full-stack software development building web applications
• 5+ years of experience using a frontend framework like React
• Strong knowledge of relational databases like Postgres and data architecture design principles
• Experience using cloud platforms (preferably AWS) to build APIs and processing services
• Experience using cloud platforms (preferably AWS) to build APIs and processing services
• Bonus:
  • Experience consuming Graph
    
    QL APIs
  • Experience with Sveltekit or other frameworks like Next.js
  • Knowledge of build systems and CICD workflows
  • Experience with serverless architectures
  • Experience with one or more of the following:
    Hasura, Auth0, Contentful, Cloudinary, Heroku, Terraform

All candidates must be prepared to discuss and demonstrate the following during the interview process:

• Practical AI Tool Usage: Specific examples of AI tools used in professional or personal projects to enhance productivity, solve complex problems, or accelerate development. If you have a preferred agentic tool setup, please share!
• Understanding of AI Limitations: A clear understanding and articulation of the current technical, ethical, and accuracy limitations of modern AI tools in the engineering context.
• Strategic AI Opportunity: A viewpoint on how AI tools create new opportunities for software engineering, such as shifting focus from boilerplate code to complex problem-solving or architectural design.
• Evolution of the Engineering Role: A well-articulated point of view on how your role has already changed (e.g., new workflows, skills, ways of collaborating) due to the introduction of AI and how you expect the role to evolve in the coming years based on your assessment of coming advancements in AI tools and technologies.

A cover letter is required. Your cover letter should be informed by the “AI and Forward-Looking Requirements” section above.

The hiring process includes:

• Email with some "get-to-know" you questions
• A Technical Interview
• A Panel Interview

• Excellent health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Excellent 401(k) plan with annual employer match of 4%