Constructive Dialogue Institute

Lead Full-Stack Engineer

Constructive Dialogue Institute

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDynamoDBETLGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaScriptMongoDBNext.jsNode.jsNoSQLPostgresPythonReactTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Within your first six months, partner with Product to improve platform reliability and reduce support load by addressing peak-usage bottlenecks and reworking enrollment, authentication, rostering, and licensing infrastructure.
  • Own end-to-end system architecture and technical roadmap for CDI’s product suite: application, data flows, integrations, and infrastructure.
  • Contribute hands-on to front-end and back-end code to unblock delivery, lead critical implementations, and resolve production issues.
  • Drive and operate CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability/monitoring, and alerting.
  • Establish and cultivate engineering best practices (code review, branching, documentation, security)—providing technical oversight of our agency partner and mentoring incoming junior engineers as the team scales.
  • Partner closely with Product, Research, and Implementation to translate CDI’s evidence-based curricula into scalable, usable digital experiences.
  • Ensure secure and privacy-conscious handling of user and institutional data; work with Product and Operations to align on compliance and data policies.
  • Communicate technical choices and tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 8+ years building full-stack web apps with clear ownership of production systems and architecture;
  • 2+ years of proven tech-lead experience (running a small squad, owning delivery, mentoring engineers).
  • Strong front-end and back-end skills (React + TypeScript preferred; Node.js, Python, or Go acceptable).
  • History with Next.js (App Router), TailwindCSS, and Auth.js / NextAuth or similar.
  • Production cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform / Pulumi), automated deployments, and operational runbooks.
  • Practical experience with NoSQL document stores (DynamoDB, MongoDB or similar) and relational DBs (Postgres or similar).
  • Experience unifying and syncing data across siloed systems (ETL/transform, deduplication, reconciliation), building user-sync pipelines (OAuth, webhooks, idempotent syncs), and working with GraphQL & REST integrations.
  • Strong practices in authentication/authorization and RBAC, encryption, secrets management, and familiarity with privacy/compliance basics.
  • Implemented logs/metrics/tracing, run incident response and postmortems, and reduced operational risk.
  • Able to translate product and research requirements into pragmatic technical plans and explain tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Commitment to CDI’s mission and to working within a mission-driven non-profit.
Benefits
  • Unlimited PTO — as well as 13 company holidays.
  • Remote Work Support — up to $500 reimbursed for home office equipment (like desks, chairs, or webcams) and up to $50/month reimbursed for home internet or cell phone expenses.
  • Other Benefits — employer-supported health, vision and dental plans, subsidized parental leave, 3% 401k match, short- and long-term disability insurance, life and AD&D insurance, $1,000 annual professional development budget.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
full-stack web developmentfront-end developmentback-end developmentReactTypeScriptNode.jsPythonGoNext.jsTailwindCSS
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingtechnical oversightbest practices establishmentstakeholder engagementadaptabilitymission-driven commitment