[Hiring] Senior Full Stack Developer @Blurb

Role Description

As a Senior Full Stack Developer, you will be a core contributor to the platform that makes content at scale possible. You will architect, build and maintain systems that handle high volume video and content workflows for major media clients.

• This is a senior individual contributor (IC) role. You will not be managing or delegating, you will be doing. Priority is execution.

In your first 30–60 days:

• Work closely with the team to deeply understand our products, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Get comfortable in the codebases by shipping bug fixes and small features.
• Begin identifying areas of improvement in architecture, developer experience, or tooling.

Once you are fully ramped:

• Architect new products and features with stability, flexibility and performance in mind.
• Own large scale efforts from technical scoping through to production delivery.
• Lead the development of new tools and production pipelines.
• Maintain and evolve infrastructure proactively, not just reactively.
• Ensure quality of all deliverables. Set the bar, then hold it.
• Contribute ideas that improve how we build and what we build.

This role is NOT right for you if:

• Your best work is coordinating and delegating rather than writing code.
• You prefer a structured corporate environment with established processes and a full team around you.
• You expect someone else to resolve ambiguity before you can move.
• You rely on AI to produce code you do not fully understand or cannot defend.

This is a builder role. You will write code every single day.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful back-end or full-stack ownership.
• Strong, production-grade TypeScript (Node.js) — this is a core requirement, not a nice-to-have.
• Solid Python skills, especially for data-heavy or ML-adjacent work.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Services (Firebase/Firestore, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Compute Engine).
• Proven ability to own the full product lifecycle: architecture, build, delivery, maintenance.
• Experience designing and scaling systems for high-volume, performance-sensitive workloads.
• Comfort working in a Linux environment; Bash/shell scripting is a regular part of the job.

Requirements

• You thrive in ambiguity. You define requirements when they are unclear instead of waiting for them to be handed to you.
• You are a self-directed executor. You pick up tasks, figure them out and ship without needing to be unblocked at every step.
• You are comfortable using AI as a productivity multiplier while maintaining your own critical thinking.
• You communicate clearly and proactively across any medium, async messages, docs, code reviews or live calls.
• You are an advocate for documentation and organized codebases, but pragmatic about what actually gets read and used.
• You are adaptable. Priorities shift in a startup, you shift with them without losing momentum.
• You have genuine curiosity about the work: side projects, new tools, emerging patterns in your domain.

Benefits

• Fully remote. We are a distributed team and have been from the start.
• High ownership, low bureaucracy. You will have real influence over how we build and what we build.
• A small, senior team. No layers, your work ships directly to production and to clients.
• Fast moving environment. We iterate quickly and expect the same from the people we hire.