As a Contract Senior Web Services Engineer, you’ll thrive by embracing ambiguity and turning it into an opportunity. You’ll use each new problem as a chance to build something meaningful, collaborate with a cross-functional team, and prioritize action that moves projects forward. By creating thoughtful solutions, supporting great work across the team, and staying curious, you’ll make an impact that’s felt by users, clients, and your peers.
Intentionally remote and globally distributed across six continents, our team thrives in a culture that values flexibility, creativity, and cutting-edge technology. Together, we’re shaping the future of digital experiences.
- Design and implement scalable database schemas and API interfaces to support large-scale user-generated content, with a focus on security, performance, and developer experience for enterprise-grade applications.
- Architect clean, performant RESTful APIs, GraphQL solutions, and AI-powered features that bridge legacy systems with modern platforms including Stripe, Shopify, Salesforce, and OpenAI.
- Build and integrate Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and AI/ML capabilities, including semantic search, RAG, vector embeddings, and prompt engineering, to enhance application intelligence.
- Guide end-to-end project execution from scoping client requirements to hands-on development using Python, Node.js, Go, and occasionally PHP, including troubleshooting third-party integrations, resolving performance bottlenecks, and writing automated tests.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients to translate complex business requirements into actionable technical solutions, working remotely with a globally distributed team across multiple time zones.
- You have 5+ years of backend API development experience, ideally using Python/Django, Node.js/NestJS, or Golang/Gin, and have built APIs for at least 3 enterprise apps involving complex third-party integrations in fast-paced environments.
- You thrive in ambiguity and bring structure to unstructured problems, clearly communicating technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, even when specs are incomplete or priorities shift.
- You have a strong understanding of agile methodologies and believe that effective collaboration drives the best results.
- You are proficient in system design and SQL data modeling for high-traffic applications (10k+ daily users).
- You bring hands-on experience implementing production-ready LLM features, including semantic search, vector databases, RAG, and prompt engineering.
- You embrace continuous learning and see this role as a chance to solve technical challenges, blending legacy systems with modern web services.
Compensation is determined based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, projects, geographic location, and business needs.
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What We Do
Fueled is a digital transformation agency that creates high-quality digital products and experiences—shaped by strategy, designed with intention, and built for business impact.
Our clients range from Fortune 500 leaders to mission-driven nonprofits, government agencies, and startups that believe in doing digital right. They turn to us for deep expertise, creative problem-solving, speed to market, and a relentless focus on quality. We’re proud to count brands like Microsoft, Disney, and Apple, nonprofits like Mayo Clinic, public entities like the White House, publishers like The New York Times, educators like Harvard, and startups that went on to become giants – like Warby Parker – among the hundreds of clients we’ve helped succeed.
With deep expertise across the platforms and technologies we deploy, we deliver results that scale. Our 10up WordPress practice is the industry leader in enterprise-class WordPress delivery. We’ve shipped native and cross platform mobile apps that have racked up media attention and industry recognitions like Apple’s official “App of the Year” award. We’re proud to partner with platforms like Sanity, Webflow, AWS, MoEngage, Amplitude, and Google Analytics – to name a few.
We have more than 300 experts spanning the globe in digital strategy, engineering, user experience and product design, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud infrastructure and architecture, SEO and digital growth, data and analytics. We’re big enough to innovate and scale to any client need, agile enough to stay ahead in a digital ecosystem changing quickly, and small enough that we care about every client.
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