Why Ryan?
Global Award-Winning Culture
Flexible Work Environment
Generous Paid Time Off
World-Class Benefits and Compensation
Rapid Growth Opportunities
Company Sponsored Two-Way Transportation
Exponential Career Growth
The Ryan Application Development Team promotes an open-minded atmosphere of learning and growth and expects the same from candidates. We want to foster a positive and enthusiastic can-do attitude with our work. Candidates should have a sense of where things are going and have experience using best of breed tools, technologies, and practices. This role is a formative one for the future of application development within Ryan, LLC and will be best filled by candidates hungry to have a huge impact.
Full-Stack Senior Developer (Team Lead or Mid-Level with Growth) with 5+ years’ experience
- Provides architectural guidance, ensures scalability, and shares development workload.
- Experienced with Next.js best practices, API integrations, and SSR/ISR strategies.
- Conducts code reviews, sets coding standards, and mentors peers.
- Bridges between DevOps and front-end when deeper infrastructure issues arise.
- Acts as technical lead and partner to onsite counterpart.
- Owns architecture (Next.js best practices, API integration, SSR/ISR strategies).
- Reviews your code, sets standards, and ensures long-term scalability.
- Bridges between DevOps team and front-end work when deeper infra issues arise.
Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, and maintain features and components in Next.js + React + TypeScript.
- Integrate with Contentful (GraphQL/REST APIs, webhooks, migrations, and management API).
- Collaborate with front-end, DevOps, designers, and content teams to deliver new features and improve workflows.
- Ensure high standards for performance, SEO, accessibility, and security across the platform.
- Implement and maintain automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end).
- Participate in code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and release cycles.
- Provide technical leadership in a small team setting, mentoring peers and setting best practices.
- Monitor site health (performance, error tracking, observability) and proactively improve reliability.
Experience:
- 5 + Full Stack senior developer expertise in modern front-end and full-stack JavaScript frameworks like Next.js, React.js, and TypeScript.
- 1-2+ years of proficiency in Node.js
- Experience with a headless CMS (Contentful preferred).
- Custom app development within Contentful
- Complex content modeling and environment management
- At least 1+ year of production experience with Next.js applications.
- Experience with a headless CMS (Contentful preferred).
- Strong CSS fundamentals and familiarity with TailwindCSS.
- 3-4 years of Development and Migration experience.
- Understanding of SSR, SSG, ISR rendering modes and tradeoffs.
- Familiarity with Core Web Vitals, accessibility (WCAG), and SEO basics.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or similar).
- Exposure to analytics frameworks (GTM, GA4, consent management tools).
- Hands-on with modern testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright).
Skills required:
- Languages/Frameworks: Next.js, React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Tailwind
- CMS: Contentful (GraphQL/REST SDKs, migrations, environments, Management API)
- Platforms such as Strapi, Sanity, or Directus
- Version Control & CI/CD: Azure Repos + Pipelines (or Vercel/GitHub Actions)
- Testing: Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright
- Quality/DX: ESLint, Prettier, Lighthouse, Storybook (optional)
- Monitoring/Observability: Familiarity with Sentry, Datadog, or similar (nice to have)
Skills Required
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent
- Three or more years of applications development experience
- Experience with Typescript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, C#, and SQL
- Proficiency in frameworks like Angular, React, and .NET
- Valid driver's license
Ryan Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ryan and has not been reviewed or approved by Ryan.
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Flexible Benefits — The myRyan model provides results-based flexibility for exempt staff alongside hybrid/remote options, while non‑exempt roles use a PTO bank and receive paid holidays. Many benefits are available from the date of hire, reinforcing practical flexibility in how benefits are used.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and fertility support are highlighted as meaningful family-oriented offerings. Consistent emphasis on family-friendly policies positions this area as a standout.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — A performance-driven culture offers bonuses and commissions in certain tracks, with role descriptions noting meaningful variable pay beyond base salary. Total compensation is often characterized as strong where these incentives are prominent.
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What We Do
Ryan is a tax services firm providing tax advisory and consulting services on a multi-jurisdictional basis. Ryan, an award-winning global tax services and software provider, is the largest Firm in the world dedicated exclusively to business taxes. With global headquarters in Dallas, Texas, the Firm provides an integrated suite of federal, state, local, and international tax services on a multijurisdictional basis, including tax recovery, consulting, advocacy, compliance, and technology services. Ryan is a seven-time recipient of the International Service Excellence Award from the Customer Service Institute of America (CSIA) for its commitment to world-class client service. Empowered by the dynamic myRyan work environment, which is widely recognized as the most innovative in the tax services industry, Ryan’s multidisciplinary team of more than 2,500 professionals and associates serves over 14,000 clients in more than 50 countries, including many of the world’s most prominent Global 5000 companies.
