What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Full-Stack Engineer position at Coates Group?
Lead the technical execution and strategic development of digital menu board and content management solutions for Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) clients. This role drives architectural design, scalability, and robustness of systems through deep expertise in TypeScript, cloud infrastructure, and object-oriented development. The Senior Full Stack Engineer mentor's engineers, leads complex projects, and champions a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
\n- Technical Leadership and Solution Architecture
- Define and guide system architecture for CMS and digital menu board solutions to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance.
- Drive technology decisions across front-end and back-end stacks, particularly leveraging TypeScript and cloud-based frameworks.
- Partner with product and UX teams to ensure technical feasibility and solution alignment with customer needs.
- End-to-End Project Delivery
- Lead the design, build, testing, and deployment of complex, customer-facing features across the full stack.
- Ensure seamless integration of front-end interfaces, backend APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
- Collaborate with DevOps to ensure robust CI/CD pipelines and secure, automated deployments.
- Quality, Standards, and Technical Governance
- Establish and uphold engineering standards for code quality, performance, and security.
- Conduct comprehensive code reviews and mentor engineers on software design principles and OOP best practices.
- Identify and remediate technical debt, ensuring architectural decisions support long-term scalability.
- Mentorship and Team Development
- Provide guidance, feedback, and technical coaching to engineers.
- Foster a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Support onboarding of new team members and documentation of technical knowledge.
- Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies or frameworks that enhance solution capabilities.
- Lead technical proof-of-concepts (POCs) or innovation sprints to explore and validate new ideas.
- Drive automation and optimization initiatives to improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability.
- 5 years’ experience in full stack engineering
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience and/or certifications).
- Experience with CMS development and digital signage solutions. (preferred)
- Proven track record of leading technical teams and delivering enterprise-level projects. (preferred)
- Advanced understanding of security best practices in cloud environments. (preferred)
- Technical Skills:
- Extensive expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, Node and object-oriented programming.
- Advanced backend development skills with frameworks like NestJS and Express.
- Proficient in frontend frameworks: React.
- Strong architectural design skills and experience implementing scalable systems.
- Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and DevOps practices.
- Strategic Technical Leadership – Leads by example, guiding teams with deep technical insight and strategic vision.
- Innovation Mindset – Proactively introduces and implements innovative solutions to complex problems.
- High Accountability – Owns outcomes and drives projects to successful, high quality, outcomes.
- Effective Communication – Articulates complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
- Adaptability – Thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments with rapidly changing business needs.