Senior Full Stack Engineer

The Senior Full Stack Engineer leads end-to-end development across client engagements, collaborating with designers, strategists, and project managers. This role involves architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining high-quality digital products, combining technical expertise with strategic thinking to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions that meet client goals.

As a senior team member, this individual independently manages technical client relationships, facilitates discovery and technical workshops, and promotes engineering best practices. They also contribute to evaluating and advancing the agency's AI-enabled development capabilities to enhance delivery, strengthen client solutions, and boost team effectiveness.

Savas operates as a technology-agnostic agency with an AI-first approach. Success in this role requires curiosity, adaptability, and the proficiency across multiple platforms and frameworks. Successful Senior Full Stack Engineers integrate AI into problem-solving, deliver technically excellent work, build trusted client relationships, and continuously improve how digital products are designed, built, and delivered.

Compensation

This is a salaried, full-time employee position with benefits. The salary range is $110,000 to $130,000 per year, depending on experience. Sales commission opportunities are available for in-person relationship building.

Responsibilities

Client Delivery

• Lead engineering efforts for multiple client engagements from discovery through launch and ongoing maintenance.
• Architect scalable, maintainable, and secure technical solutions aligned with client goals and business requirements.
• Build custom web applications, websites, APIs, integrations, and CMS implementations using appropriate technologies.
• Collaborate closely with designers, strategists, project managers, and QA throughout the project lifecycle.
• Produce, maintain, debug, optimize, and extend applications and user interfaces.
• Establish and maintain local development environments using version managers, containerization, and modern development tooling.
• Configure and execute deployment workflows across development, staging, and production environments.
• Ensure work meets agency standards for accessibility, performance, security, maintainability, and documentation.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities early, communicating tradeoffs and recommendations.
• Participate in ongoing support, troubleshooting, and maintenance of launched client projects.
• Balance technical excellence with client budgets, timelines, and evolving priorities.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as the primary engineering voice during client meetings, discovery sessions, technical workshops, and solution presentations.
• Lead technical planning and solution architecture for new initiatives and enhancements.
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices, coding standards, and development workflows.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback to improve code quality and team capability.
• Identify, prioritize, and address technical debt while balancing delivery timelines and long-term maintainability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and development practices to enhance agency capabilities.

Agency Growth & Business Development

• Support business development through estimates, proposals, prototypes, and technical discovery.
• Evaluate and implement AI-assisted development workflows.
• Contribute to internal tooling, documentation, knowledge sharing, and process improvements.
• Participate in internal initiatives, experimental projects, and retreats.

Professional Knowledge

• Breadth of full-stack experience in PHP CMS (Drupal, WordPress, Symfony, Craft) and/or JS stacks (React/NextJS, ReactNative).
• Developing themes and using templating languages.
• Developing APIs and integrating with external APIs.
• Deployments, establishing development workflows, and setting up local development environments on Docker.
• Experience deploying applications across modern cloud hosting and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments (e.g., Pantheon, Vercel, Upsun).
• Creating CI/CD pipelines.
• Communicating directly with clients and effectively addressing non-technical audiences.

Experience

• 5–8+ years of development experience, with significant time in an agency or consultancy environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical discussions with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience using AI development tools responsibly to accelerate production-ready software delivery.
• Experience collaborating with designers using Figma or similar design tools.
• Performing well in a fast-paced, multi-project environment with shifting priorities.
• Experience making architectural decisions and balancing technical quality against project constraints.

Education & Training

Education and training commensurate with a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 5–8+ years of experience, preferably in an agency environment.