What You'll Do
As a successful Full Stack Senior Software Engineer, you will help maintain and enhance First Advantage’s key end‑user‑facing platform, owning delivery from design through deployment with a strong focus on modern frontend development. This hands‑on role partners with the Product Owner and Lead Architect to ensure adherence to FADV security and quality standards, while building scalable, high‑quality solutions across the stack with an emphasis on React, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern UI practices. The role involves developing and optimizing a high‑volume, security‑intensive application using automated testing and deployment frameworks, while ensuring an intuitive user experience for hiring managers and candidates. Strong communication skills are essential to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional and globally distributed teams.
Responsibilities- Design and develop software applications and solutions based on documented business and system requirements.
- Write, edit, and debug code for assigned projects.
- Understand how applications operate, are structured, and how customers use them.
- Provide assistance to the testing team and support personnel as needed to resolve application issues.
- Respond promptly and professionally to bug reports.
- Assist and mentor junior developers on technical patterns and coding challenges.
- Review designs and code and provide feedback and guidance.
- Take ownership of the delivery schedule and quality of work.
- Provide input and estimates about the effort required to build desired functionality.
- Design applications for stability, scalability, and performance.
- Design solutions to problematic programming.
- Use Test‑driven Development (TDD) techniques to specify a detailed, executable design for your solution.
What You Will Need
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of frontend software development experience.
- Working experience writing and deploying UI applications using React.JS and backend applications in Node.JS.
- Design and develop Micro‑frontend and/or Microservices systems with Node.js and NPM.
- Knowledge of RESTful API services.
- Working knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Experience developing and supporting mission‑critical applications in a production environment.
- Proficiency in writing unit tests and experience using mocking frameworks.
- Experience with source control management in a team environment.
- Experience supporting and/or implementing complex integration projects.
- Strong problem‑solving skills with thorough research and investigation.
- Responsiveness to application outages as part of a regular on‑call rotation.
- Collaboration with software architects to create high‑level applications.
- Ability to understand business requirements and create plans accordingly.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Knowledge of security vulnerabilities of software applications.
- Experience integrating LLM usage into the software development life cycle.
- Experience with AWS Cloud technology stacks (S3, SQS, CloudFront, CloudFormation, AppSync, API Gateway, DynamoDB, ECS, Lambda, OpenSearch).
- UI testing experience using Cypress and TestCafe.
- Proficiency using Git in a collaborative development environment.
- Ability to work independently and drive projects from inception to delivery.
- Comfortable producing at a high level in a work‑from‑home and office environment with onshore and offshore teams.
- Experience with collaboration tools such as MS Teams, Zoom, JIRA/ADO, and Confluence.
- Ability to provide accurate estimates and manage priorities, deadlines, and deliveries as part of a team workflow (Kanban/Scrum).
Salary
Approximately $40,000 to $50,000 USD base annually.
Benefits- Generous Paid Time Off Program.
- Volunteer Time Off (VTO) Policy.
- Competitive medical, dental, and other benefits.
- Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) available to all team members.
- Professional development opportunities, including award‑winning SOAR program.
Equal Employment Opportunity
First Advantage is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a workplace and recruitment process that is free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Employment decisions at First Advantage are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate in any aspect of employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or family status, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition or genetic information, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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