As a Senior Software Engineer I, you will be a hands-on technical leader building and evolving Polaris across the full stack. You will design intuitive React and TypeScript interfaces and robust Django and Python APIs, owning features from architecture through deployment and production support. Working closely with Product, UX, QA, and engineers across squads, you will translate business problems into scalable solutions, integrate with Google and other third-party platforms, and improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability. You will help set technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards across frontend and backend development.
At Wpromote, we're developing something special called Polaris, a modern data and marketing intelligence platform that gives our clients a serious edge over their competition. Polaris enables and empowers our marketing teams to work together seamlessly, using a comprehensive marketing data foundation with apps that deliver new insights and performance gains for our clients. Polaris also gives Wpromote an operational edge, doubling as our company CRM and integrated source of truth for operations data, making our lives easier and our decisions smarter.
You Will Be
- Acting as a hands-on technical leader and Subject Matter Expert (SME) across both React/TypeScript and Django/Python.
- Designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end features across React applications, Django APIs and services, and PostgreSQL data models.
- Partnering with Product and UX to turn complex business workflows into intuitive, accessible, and responsive user experiences.
- Designing secure, scalable RESTful APIs and integrating with Google and other third-party services.
- Architecting reusable frontend and backend patterns with clear boundaries and pragmatic tradeoffs.
- Owning automated testing across the stack with Pytest, Vitest, and Playwright to support reliable continuous integration and delivery.
- Monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving performance, reliability, and observability across web applications and APIs.
- Driving features from discovery and technical design through deployment, documentation, and production support.
- Carefully balancing custom and open-source software to best suit product and operational needs.
- Proactively identifying and resolving defects, technical debt, and architectural risks.
- Reviewing designs and code, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards across the team.
- Collaborating across squads and participating in agile planning and delivery.
You Must Have
- 7+ years of experience building production web applications, with strong hands-on expertise in both React/TypeScript and Python/Django.
- Proven ability to own complex full-stack features and systems end to end.
- Deep React expertise, including hooks, component architecture, accessibility, and state management such as Redux or Zustand.
- Deep Django expertise, including the ORM, migrations, authentication and authorization, and Django REST Framework or similar API tooling.
- Strong experience designing and operating RESTful APIs and third-party integrations, including validation, error handling, rate limits, and varied data formats.
- Strong PostgreSQL and relational data modeling skills, including query performance and transactional design.
- Mastery of modern frontend tooling such as Vite and NPM, plus GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong automated testing practices across frontend, backend, and end-to-end layers using tools such as Vitest or Jest, Pytest, and Playwright.
- Strong understanding of application security, API security, and secure coding practices.
- Experience deploying and operating containerized applications in cloud environments; GCP and Kubernetes are a plus.
- Exceptional architecture, debugging, and problem-solving skills across the full stack.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, and ability to influence cross-functional teams.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience building production web applications
- Strong hands-on expertise with React and TypeScript
- Strong hands-on expertise with Python and Django
- Experience owning complex full-stack features and systems end to end
- Deep React expertise, including hooks, component architecture, accessibility, and state management
- Deep Django expertise, including ORM, migrations, authentication, authorization, and REST API tooling
- Experience designing and operating RESTful APIs and third-party integrations
- Strong PostgreSQL and relational data modeling skills
- Mastery of modern frontend tooling such as Vite and NPM
- Experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD pipelines
- Strong automated testing experience across frontend, backend, and end-to-end layers
- Strong understanding of application security, API security, and secure coding practices
- Experience deploying and operating containerized applications in cloud environments
- Exceptional architecture, debugging, and full-stack problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional influence
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes
What We Do
Wpromote is an award-winning digital marketing agency with offices across the United States. Named the Leader in the Forrester Performance Marketing Wave, we help brands Think Like A Challenger to drive transformational growth. Challenger clients include leading brands such as Whirlpool, Zenni, Adobe, TransUnion, Frontier Airlines, and more. Our mission is to build and deploy holistic, agile marketing strategies that drive significant results for our clients. We partner with clients to capture market share by authentically connecting with the right customers across channels at every stage of the customer journey, increasing customer lifetime value, and outsmarting the competition instead of outspending them. Our teams think outside of the box and challenge the status quo because Wpromote actively builds a culture that prioritizes creativity, innovation, and passion in service of our clients’ goals.
