About the role:
As our Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll be essential in achieving TestGorilla's vision of helping one billion people land their dream job. You'll lead the design and development of scalable, user-friendly features that empower candidates and hiring teams alike. This isn't just a role; it's your chance to make a real difference by shaping a product that levels the playing field for talent around the world. You’ll directly contribute to delivering a reliable, high-quality platform that helps companies make fair, skills-based hiring decisions at scale. Join our driven, remote-first team, and let’s achieve these ambitious goals together.
Responsibilities:
In this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Own features end-to-end across the stack: from building robust backend services to crafting delightful user experiences.
- Design and implement highly scalable and reliable architectures using modern technologies (e.g., Python, Django, Angular, AWS).
- Lead the full software development lifecycle: from ideation to deployment and everything in between.
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code across backend and frontend systems.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build intuitive and impactful user experiences.
- Optimize both backend and frontend performance for speed, scalability, and reliability.
- Mentor and support less-experienced engineers through technical guidance and leadership.
- Contribute to and improve DevOps pipelines, ensuring efficient and secure deployments.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing across disciplines.
What you’ll bring:
- Uphold TestGorilla's behaviors and foster an inclusive, supportive culture.
- Collaborate effectively with global colleagues across teams and time zones.
- You have strong full stack experience delivering production-ready applications with modern backend and frontend technologies.
- You aim for excellence: pixel-perfect UI, high-quality code, and lightning-fast load times.
- You have experience designing, implementing, running, and maintaining scalable backend services, including REST APIs and event-driven architectures.
- You ensure code quality by writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
- You participate in code reviews, contribute to architecture discussions, and mentor other team members through knowledge sharing and guidance.
- You’re fluent with relational and NoSQL databases and understand cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and deployment practices.
- You have a solid understanding of UX/UI design, usability, and accessibility.
- You highly value building a world-class engineering team and helping others grow.
- You’re motivated by continuously improving your skills and learning new technologies.
- You enjoy influencing others and promote technical excellence while staying open to change.
- You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and approach challenges from multiple perspectives.
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills: you validate your decisions and explain them clearly.
- We typically expect candidates with 5+ years of engineering experience, and at least 3–5 years of Angular and Python experience, to have the skills above.
- We actively seek diversity and encourage applications from everyone. If you're interested in this role but your experience doesn't perfectly match the description, please still apply. Studies show that women and underrepresented groups can be hesitant to apply unless they meet every requirement. If this role excites you and you're confident you can do the job, we encourage you to apply!
Bonus skills:
- You’ve worked in a SaaS product-based company.
- You are experienced with Agile methodologies such as Scrum, or Kanban.
- You have hands-on experience with DevOps, containerization, CI/CD (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions).
- You have experience with Django or similar web frameworks.
What’s in it for you?
- Please note: Some specifics, particularly around leave, may vary depending on your country of residence. This will be discussed during the hiring process.
- Global Team: Join a fully remote, mission-driven team from around the world.
- Competitive compensation: Receive a competitive pay €50,000 - €80,000 + Share Appreciation Rights (SARs).
- Remote & flexible work: Work from almost anywhere*. Enjoy flexible hours and asynchronous work to balance work and life.
- Check out the Countries we currently hire from here.
- Remote work budget: €1,000 per year to help you set up your home office.
- Growth & development: Invest in yourself and your career with a 3.5% L&D budget and clear growth opportunities.
- Stimulating work environment: Tackle new challenges and work with innovative technology in a dynamic setting.
- Connect with your team: Join optional fun virtual socials, AMAs with team members and leadership, and regular fun chats. Build a strong sense of community!
- TestGorilla community groups: Join peers to build community and boost opportunities for connection, advocacy, and professional development.
- Parent/Caregiver support: We provide a caregiver-friendly work environment with paid 8-16 week parental leave and tailored return-to-work approaches.
- Work-life balance: Our unlimited and flexible time off policy empowers you to take the time you need to recharge and maintain your well-being.
Interested?
- We believe in using our own product to ensure fair and objective hiring. If this role aligns with your skills and aspirations, we invite you to complete one of our very own assessments. This will give you a firsthand experience of our platform and help us get to know you better. We look forward to hearing from you!
- TestGorilla is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe that diverse teams are stronger teams, and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We understand that some candidates may experience test anxiety, and we want to assure you that accommodations are available and can be requested prior to sitting our assessments. Your request will not negatively impact your application, as we do not factor this into our review process.
