Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Full-time, Remote, React, Node.js, AWS)

About Pixory

Pixory is a fast-growing e-commerce platform for personalized photobooks. We're building a proprietary CMS to scale globally and need senior engineers who can own the full stack – from pixel-perfect frontends to production-grade infrastructure.

Your Mission

Build and scale our e-commerce platform end-to-end. You'll work across React frontends, Node.js APIs, and AWS infrastructure – shipping features that serve hundreds of thousands of users while maintaining the performance and reliability our customers expect.

Tech Stack:

Front end:

• React 18+ with TypeScript
• Next.js 14+ (SSR/SSG)
• Tailwind CSS, responsive design
• Canvas libraries: Konva.js, Fabric.js, or react-konva
• State management: Zustand, Redux Toolkit, or Jotai
• Performance: Web Workers, OffscreenCanvas, lazy loading
• Unit tests: Jest

Back end

• Node.js 18+ (Fastify/Express)
• PostgreSQL with Prisma/TypeORM, indexing
• Redis (caching, queues)
• BullMQ for job processing
• Sharp.js for image processing
• REST API design and implementation

Infrastructure & DevOps

• AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ElastiCache, Autoscaling, DB Cluster (Master/Slave)
• Docker containerization
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Monitoring: CloudWatch, Grafana

Required Experience

• 5+ years full stack JavaScript/TypeScript
• 3+ years React in production environments
• 3+ years Node.js backend at scale (100k+ requests/day)
• 2+ years hands-on AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3 minimum)
• Docker and CI/CD pipeline experience
• PostgreSQL or similar SQL database
• REST API design and implementation
• Strong DevOps knowledge – you're comfortable owning architecture decisions

Must-Haves

• React + TypeScript production experience
• Node.js backend at real scale
• AWS hands-on experience (not just certifications)
• Docker deployment experience
• Autonomous problem-solver who takes ownership

Nice-to-Have

• Photobook, print-on-demand, or design tool industry experience
• Built image processing pipelines (crop, resize, format conversion)
• Open-source contributions in React/Canvas ecosystem
• E-commerce platform development
• Payment integration (Stripe, PayPal)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Kubernetes)

Print/PDF Production (Critical Differeniator)

• CMYK color space management
• PDF generation: LaTeX, Puppeteer, PDF-lib, or similar
• Print specifications: bleed, trim boxes, ICC profiles
• Command-line tools: ImageMagick, Ghostscript

Who You are

• Passionate – Genuinely excited about technology and always learning
• Scalability mindset – Design systems for 1M+ users from day one
• Ownership – You take features from conception through to production monitoring
• Autonomous – Minimal supervision, self-directed problem solving
• Clear communicator – Technical to non-technical conversations
• Pragmatic – Balance code quality with shipping velocity

Why Pixory

You'll join a fully remote, leanand fast-moving team building a product that's already generating significant revenue. This is a high-impact role where your decisions directly shape the platform's architecture and growth trajectory.

We prioritize real experience over years on a CV – a 3-year engineer with solid AWS and live production apps is more valuable to us than a 7-year developer who's never deployed beyond localhost.

**Please DO NOT contact us via email when applying to this role, we would like to keep communication on Wellfound. All candidates on Wellfound will be prioritised.
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We look forward to receiving your application!