Senior Full Stack Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

Full-Stack Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend services in Go and frontend applications in TypeScript to power Bolt’s checkout and merchant dashboard experiences.

Merchant Dashboard Ownership: Drive the development of the Connect-specific merchant dashboard while also evaluating and enhancing the overall merchant dashboard experience across Bolt.

Checkout Experience: Collaborate closely with design, product, and data teams to build intuitive, performant checkout flows that optimize merchant and shopper conversion.
Scalability & Performance: Optimize PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Elasticsearch databases for high availability and responsiveness across merchant-facing applications.

Technical Leadership: Lead technical initiatives and incident investigations, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor junior engineers.

Merchant Collaboration: Partner directly with merchants to understand dashboard and checkout needs, troubleshoot integration issues, and propose scalable product solutions.
Security & Compliance: Ensure dashboard features and checkout systems maintain compliance with PCI, data privacy, and fraud-prevention standards.

API Development: Build and maintain REST APIs and webhooks to integrate merchant tools, analytics, and commerce platforms (Magento 2, BigCommerce, Salesforce Demandware, etc.).

Observability: Use Datadog for logging, monitoring, and tracing to ensure reliability, alert quality, and system transparency.

Automation & Pattern Recognition: Identify inefficiencies, automate workflows, and create proactive monitoring tools to improve developer and merchant experience.

Please note, this is a contract-to-hire opportunity with the option to convert to full-time after 3–6 months.

Must Have Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud infrastructure provider

• Strong experience with both frontend (TypeScript, React) and backend (GoLang, Python, or Java) development

• Deep understanding of web application architecture and system design for scalability

• Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, or Ginkgo

• Knowledge of databases such as Postgres, DynamoDB, and BigQuery

• Comfort with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar tools)

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration

• Experience integrating with commerce platforms like Magento 2, BigCommerce, or SFCC Demandware

• Background in building or maintaining dashboards or analytics tools

• Experience with developer experience tooling such as Scalar or Redoc

• Understanding of compliance, privacy, and security best practices in fintech

  Benefits Upon Successful Conversion To Full Time Employee

  • Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental and vision

  • Remote-first workplace

  • Time away: Minimum of 20 days guaranteed PTO, paid holidays + floating holidays, your birthday off!

  • Paid parental leave

  • Competitive Pay

  • Retirement plans

  • Virtual and in-person team & company events