Senior Software Engineer | Full Stack
New York, NY
Base Salary: $160,000 - $180,000 + Equity
About the Opportunity
High Sierra Talent is partnering with a rapidly growing consumer technology company.
This is a high-impact opportunity to join a product-driven engineering organization that is scaling quickly while still maintaining a startup-level ownership mentality. Engineers here work closely with Product and Design, move fast, and directly influence customer experience and business outcomes.
About the Role
We are seeking a strong Full Stack Software Engineer to help modernize and scale critical user journeys across the platform, including:
- Search experience
- Marketplace detail pages
- Booking workflows
- User account functionality
- Post-booking experiences
This role offers the opportunity to work across frontend and backend systems while helping define long-term engineering patterns and architecture standards. You will collaborate directly with Product, Design, and senior engineering leadership to deliver scalable, high-performance applications used by a large and growing customer base. This is an onsite role based in New York City.
What You'll Do
- Build and own full-stack features across high-traffic marketplace workflows
- Develop frontend experiences using modern React and Next.js technologies
- Design and enhance APIs, backend services, and database models
- Improve application performance, reliability, observability, and scalability
- Partner with Product and Design teams to deliver intuitive user experiences
- Contribute to architecture decisions, reusable engineering patterns, and technical standards
- Participate in code reviews, testing strategies, and operational improvements
- Support rollout strategies, analytics instrumentation, and iterative product enhancements
Tech Stack
Frontend
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Shadcn/UI
Backend
Data & Infrastructure
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- AWS
- Datadog
Testing
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years of experience building production web applications
- Strong experience across both frontend and backend engineering
- Experience building APIs and working with relational and NoSQL databases
- Strong understanding of scalable web architecture and performance optimization
- Product-focused mindset with attention to UX and customer impact
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, testing practices, and code quality standards
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment
Preferred Background
The hiring team is especially interested in engineers who have experience at strong product-focused engineering organizations and who demonstrate:
- High technical standards
- Strong product intuition
- Ownership mentality
- Fast learning velocity
- Strong execution skills
Computer Science degrees from strong technical universities are highly valued but not required.
Why This Role Stands Out
- Opportunity to help lead a major platform rewrite initiative
- High visibility and ownership across mission-critical systems
- Modern engineering stack and architecture
- Clear path toward Staff-level technical leadership
- Direct impact on customer growth, conversion, and product scalability
- Collaborative engineering culture with strong technical mentorship
Ideal Candidate Profile
This role is ideal for:
- Strong frontend engineers with modern React/Next.js experience
- Full stack engineers looking to deepen frontend expertise
- Engineers who enjoy high-growth consumer product environments
- Builders who want meaningful ownership and influence on technical direction
