# Senior / Staff Full-Stack Engineer

**Company:** [Hedra](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hedra)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $175k – $275k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Python, AWS, Postgres, Redis, SQS, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-05-21

> Design and build frontend and backend services for creative tools using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Python on AWS. Requires 5+ years of experience with modern web frameworks.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy frontend and backend services for creative brainstorming and creation products
- Build web-based image and video creation / editing tools using emerging web standards
- Develop and maintain backend services and APIs on AWS infrastructure
- Write secure, stable, and scalable Python code
- Interface with foundation models
- Integrate with Postgres, S3, Redis, and SQS to implement event streaming and processing logic

## Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience with JavaScript, React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Experience working closely with design to deliver engineering initiatives
- Strong focus on user experience and empowering creatives

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience developing scalable services using Python or Go
- Experience with relational databases
- Experience with unit/integration tests, CI/CD, and functional tests (e.g., Playwright)
- Familiarity with WASM, WebSockets, IndexedDB, promises, generators, and coroutines
- Experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes
- Experience architecting REST APIs for distributed systems

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