Summary
Take end-to-end ownership of a modern web platform spanning a React frontend, Python-based backend, real-time WebSocket services, a Node.js companion service, and cloud infrastructure. You will modernize development practices, improve deployment automation, and have significant autonomy over architecture and engineering standards.
Highlights
End-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, real-time systems, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps. The role offers substantial autonomy to modernize engineering practices, introduce CI/CD and infrastructure as code, and shape the technical direction of a growing application stack.
Description
๐ Singapore | Remote considered for candidates in Vietnam or Indonesia
Role Summary
As our Full Stack Developer, you'll take end-to-end ownership of both production applications and the AWS infrastructure that serves them.
That means the React SPA and its build pipeline, the Django/Channels backend and its real-time WebSocket layer, our companion Node/Express CommonDB service, and the AWS hosting and DevOps practices tying it all together.
You'll bring structure and modern engineering practice โ version control, CI/CD, infrastructure as code โ to a codebase that's currently run by the founder with AI-assisted tooling, and you'll have real autonomy to shape how it's built going forward.
What You'll Work On
Frontend: Maintain and evolve the React (CRA) single-page app, including its code-split bundle structure, geospatial mapping (OpenLayers), and CAD/BIM viewing integrations (Sketchfab, Autodesk APS/Forge for Revit, Navisworks, and Inventor files).Backend & real-time: Develop and extend the Django backend, including the Django Channels/ASGI real-time layer that powers live WebSocket features, served through Daphne and Nginx.Async processing: Own the Celery, Celery Beat, and Flower job pipeline for background and scheduled work.Integrations: Maintain the Node/Express CommonDB service and external integrations including Autodesk APS/Forge, Stripe, and Google Maps.Cloud & DevOps: Manage and evolve our AWS footprint in ap-southeast-1 โ EC2, ALB, CloudFront/OAC, S3, ACM, Route 53 โ including migrating manual deployment processes into automated, reproducible pipelines.Take ownership of the source code itself: import the React and Django repositories into Git and establish a proper branching and versioning workflow.
Tech Stack You'll Work With
Frontend: React (Create React App) with code-split bundles, OpenLayers, Sketchfab viewer, Autodesk Platform Services (APS/Forge), Chart.js, Bootstrap 4, Font Awesome, animate.css, toastr, jQuery, Stripe.js, Google Maps, Google Analytics, and custom i18n (English, Malay, Indonesian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French)
Backend & real-time: Django, Django Channels (ASGI), Daphne, Nginx reverse proxy, Django REST Framework token auth, Django admin
Async / jobs: Celery, Celery Beat, Flower, Redis/ElastiCache broker
Other services: CommonDB (Node.js/Express API on EC2), Autodesk APS/Forge OAuth integration
AWS / hosting: EC2, EBS (GP2โGP3), VPC/subnets/security groups, Application Load Balancer, ACM, CloudFront (OAC, CloudFront Functions), S3, Route 53
DevOps & tooling: Git, AWS CloudShell, AWS Budgets & Cost Anomaly Detection, S3 Intelligent-Tiering (current state); GitHub Actions/OIDC, Terraform/CloudFormation (target state)
Must-Have Skills
Strong React experience, including Create React App projects: code-splitting, hashed asset builds, and client-side SPA routing.Solid Python/Django experience; familiarity with Django Channels, ASGI, and WebSockets is a strong plus.Working knowledge of core AWS services: EC2, S3, CloudFront, ALB, ACM, IAM, VPC, and Route 53.Proficiency with Git and standard branching/versioning workflows.A security-minded approach to frontend builds โ comfortable identifying and removing browser-exposed secrets, fixing mixed-content issues, and excluding source maps from production.
Nice-to-Have / Bonus
Experience with Autodesk Platform Services / Forge, or CAD/BIM file formats (Revit, Navisworks, Inventor).3D/WebGL experience, particularly three.js.Celery, Celery Beat, and Flower for async job orchestration.Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation.CI/CD pipeline design, especially GitHub Actions with OIDC.Payment integration experience (Stripe).Geospatial mapping (OpenLayers) and multi-language i18n at scale.Node.js/Express experience.Containerization (Docker).AWS Cognito, or AWS cost-optimization practices (Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, S3 Intelligent-Tiering).
Who You Are
You take genuine ownership โ you don't wait to be told what to fix next.You're security-minded by default, not just when prompted.You're pragmatic: comfortable balancing shipping speed against technical debt in an early-stage environment.You communicate clearly and directly with a non-DevOps founder, translating technical tradeoffs into plain language.You're comfortable working alongside AI-assisted development and DevOps workflows.
Why Join Us
This is a rare opportunity to take a live, revenue-generating SaaS product and architect its engineering foundations from the ground up โ building the CI/CD pipeline, introducing Infrastructure as Code, and hardening production security โ with full visibility into your impact and high autonomy over how the work gets done.
You won't be one of many engineers maintaining someone else's system; you'll be the engineer who defines how this system is built and run going forward.