Lead Full Stack Engineer

Our California-based customer is an American global e-commerce leader, one of the most popular and successful websites on the Internet. It provides platform services by connecting millions of sellers and buyers in more than 190 markets around the world.

The Engineering Systems Tools team builds and operates the internal tooling and infrastructure that supports thousands of developers across the company. Our mission is to enhance developer efficiency through automation, self-service platforms, and seamless Provisioning. We support and extend core platforms including JIRA, Confluence, GitHub Enterprise, Artifactory, SonarQube, Gradle, and Airtable, while building and maintaining custom applications tailored to internal engineering workflows.

On the infrastructure side, we operate across multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure), and are actively investing in container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code, and service automation to modernize our stack.

We own the full lifecycle of our tools - from development and deployment to monitoring and operations - and collaborate closely with teams across the company to deliver resilient, scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain full-stack internal tooling and platforms that improve engineering productivity and automation.
• Develop and support RESTful APIs, microservices, and front-end interfaces that integrate with both third-party and custom-built tools.
• Operate and scale cloud-based infrastructure across GCP, AWS, and Azure; contribute to infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring.
• Implement and support Kubernetes-based containerization workflows, including service deployment and resource optimization.
• Automate infrastructure and operations using tools like Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Own the full lifecycle of systemsfrom requirements gathering to deployment and post-release support.
• Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues across the stack and work on platform hardening.
• Collaborate with product owners, site reliability engineers, and developers to continuously improve platform usability and reliability.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, technical design reviews, and code reviews, mentor junior team members where applicable.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering and platform operations in a large-scale or enterprise environment.
• Strong programming skills in Java (preferred), with experience in Spring Boot or similar frameworks. Bonus for front-end experience (React, Angular, or similar).
• Experience designing, deploying, and managing applications in Kubernetes and Dockerized environments.
• Solid background in multi-cloud architecture and automation across GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Familiarity with internal developer platforms and tools like JIRA, GitHub, Artifactory, SonarQube, and related systems.
• Comfortable with monitoring/logging stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems, APIs, and infrastructure layers.
• Ability to translate platform needs into maintainable, performant code and configuration.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across engineering and infrastructure domains.

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers