Senior Software Engineer - Lead Platform

The role

This full-stack role involves roughly 70% frontend and 30% backend architecture and development. You will design, build, and maintain scalable services for the advisor product ecosystem using NestJS, Node.js, and React.

What you will do

• Own and deliver well-scoped projects and features from end to end.
• Work with product managers and QA to translate business requirements into software solutions.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, design reviews, and platform-wide decision-making.
• Help evolve and enforce strong engineering standards via code reviews, documentation, and mentorship.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of automated tests and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build experimentation and analytics foundations including feature flags and A/B tests.
• Champion quality and continuous deployment through testing and design system adoption.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues using logs, metrics, and instrumentation.
• Engage with the engineering team on technical planning and timeline estimates.
• Lead efforts in debugging, refactoring, and optimizing performance across services.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience, including modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.
• Proficiency with modern architecture patterns, including API design (REST and GraphQL), asynchronous processing, and microservices.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS (Lambda, EventBridge, S3, etc.).
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and async processing patterns (EventBridge, SQS, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience in CI/CD pipelines and version control (GitHub Actions).
• Hands-on experience building LLM-backed features (prompt design, retrieval, structured output, evaluation, cost and latency management).
• Fluency with AI coding agents.
• Solid testing mindset with experience writing and maintaining automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to work independently and with a distributed team in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

• 401(k) plus match
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid Time Off

Before you apply

• Candidate must live and be authorized to work in the United States.
• A Place for Mom uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees.

About the company

A Place for Mom is a platform guiding families through the aging journey by connecting caregivers to senior living communities and home care agencies. The company is mission-driven and has helped millions of families since 2000.