# Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

**Company:** [Muck Rack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/muck-rack)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** €95k – €110k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Django, Vue, JavaScript, TypeScript, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Celery, MySQL, Postgres, Search Systems, Ai Models, LLMs, Design Systems, On-Call
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Build customer-facing search experiences across frontend and backend systems, with emphasis on Vue, Python, Django, search infrastructure, and AI-powered features. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience and includes production ownership and on-call participation.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own and deliver customer-facing search features and workflows across frontend and backend systems, from technical planning through production.
- Build AI-powered product experiences end to end, including backend services and user interfaces.
- Build responsive user experiences with Vue while contributing to Python and Django services.
- Design and improve search, indexing, and retrieval systems for large volumes of data.
- Develop and maintain data workflows using Elasticsearch, Kafka, Celery, and MySQL.
- Make technical trade-offs balancing customer experience, delivery speed, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and engineering teams to shape solutions and deliver high-quality experiences.
- Troubleshoot production issues and improve performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
- Participate in on-call and incident response rotations.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production software.
- Strong experience across frontend and backend systems, independently delivering features throughout the application stack.
- Proficiency with Python or a similar programming language and Django or a comparable web framework.
- Experience building maintainable user-facing applications with Vue.js or another modern JavaScript framework.
- Experience with Elasticsearch or comparable search technology, or significant experience with data-intensive systems.
- Experience making technical trade-offs in complex production systems.
- Experience diagnosing production issues and improving system reliability and operational health.
- Experience with TypeScript in a large codebase.
- Experience with design systems or shared component libraries.
- Flexibility to adjust working hours for overlap with teammates in US time zones.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Kafka or other streaming and event-driven technologies.
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, or other relational databases.
- Celery or other asynchronous task-processing systems.
- Search, discovery, indexing, or information-retrieval features.
- Frontend architecture, performance, or complex customer-facing workflows.
- High-traffic SaaS applications or systems processing large volumes of data.
- Customer-facing features backed by LLMs or other AI models.
- AI feature evaluation, testing, or user-feedback analysis.
- Interest in journalism, news, media, or social media.
- Clear communication of complex technical ideas and effective collaboration with technical and non-technical partners.
- Ownership, independent problem solving, pragmatic technical judgment, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
- Proactive use of AI tools to improve productivity and delivery.

## Compensation
- Ireland: €95,000–€110,000 annually, depending on experience.
- Bulgaria: €6,000+ gross per month, depending on experience.
- Up to 10% travel for team collaboration, customer engagements, and company events.
- Remote-work support including a home-office stipend, phone and internet reimbursement, and coworking membership.
- Benefits may include health coverage, paid time off, parental leave, wellness support, learning and development, bonus or commission structures, and equity opportunities.

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