Full Stack Developer.

Role: Full Stack Developer
Priority Location:South Africa / Latin America / Philippines

Working Hours: 9:00 AM 5:00 PM EST

Salary Range: Market related

Type of contract: Independent Contractor

Type of job: Remote

About the Role: We are seeking a Full-Stack Developer (Backend-Focused) with 5 years of software engineering experience to join our 7-person technology team led by a CTO who provides overall technical direction.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving practical real-world technical problems taking ownership of their work and building reliable solutions across our technology stack with a primary focus on backend development.

The Ideal Candidate:

Quickly understand existing code: Able to get up to speed on an existing codebase and begin
making meaningful contributions quickly.

Improve rather than over-engineer: Comfortable working within existing systems and making
practical improvements without unnecessary rewrites.

Strong problem-solving: Able to break down complex technical problems and identify practicaleffective solutions.

Good technical judgment: Makes thoughtful decisions around architecture implementation performance and maintainability.

Production-focused: Builds reliable scalable software that is well-tested and ready for production use.

Key Responsibilities:

• Backend & Integrations: Design build and maintain robust backend services REST APIs and third-party platform integrations (payment gateways clinical databases operational tools).
  
• Data Pipelines & Warehousing: Improve data pipelines BigQuery architecture and reporting infrastructure to ensure 100% data integrity monitoring logging and alerting.
  
• Workflow Automation & AI: Build AI-powered agents and workflow automations using LLMs and modern frameworks to eliminate manual administrative and operational effort.
  
• Full-Stack Execution: Own existing codebases incrementally; contribute to React-based internal tools dashboards and operational interfaces as needed.

Qualifications:

Non-Negotiable: AI & Automation Experience

• Must have hands-on experience building and deploying real-world applications using LLM APIs AI agents or modern AI frameworks ( LangGraph PydanticAI).
• Actually built and shipped AI-powered features or automations not simply experimented with AI tools or used LLMs as part of their development workflow.

Non-Negotiable: Sensitive & Regulated Data Experience

• Must have professional experience working with sensitive confidential or highly regulated data in a production environment.
• This includes experience with data requiring strong security privacy access controls compliance or regulatory safeguards.
• Relevant experience may come from HealthTech FinTech LegalTech GovTech or other industries where protecting sensitive data is a core part of the technology environment.
• Candidates should understand the practical requirements of building and maintaining systems where data security privacy and compliance cannot be treated as an afterthought.

Core Technical Stack

• Primary Languages: TypeScript / (Strong emphasis) SQL Python (beneficial for AI/Data)
• Data & Cloud: PostgreSQL / Supabase BigQuery Looker Studio
• Frontend / Internal Tools: React Modern Web Frameworks
• AI Frameworks: LLM APIs LangChain LangGraph PydanticAI or AI Agent architectures

Required Experience:

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