Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Just Right Reader is seeking a Senior Product/Platform Engineer to contribute to their platform across various products and internal tools. The role involves building and maintaining product features, designing backend APIs, and improving internal tools while working across the stack in a modern TypeScript and Next.js environment.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain product features across frontend, backend, and database layers
- Design and implement backend APIs and application workflows for both customer-facing and internal operational use cases
- Improve internal tools used by operations, customer success, fulfillment, and related teams
- Work across TypeScript application logic, SQL queries, reporting workflows, and integration code
- Build and maintain integrations with external systems such as ERP, CRM, auth/identity, and fulfillment-related tools
- Debug and resolve issues across application code, data, cloud services, and operational workflows
- Contribute to reliable, maintainable systems that support a growing platform and a small, fast-moving team
Skills
- Proven experience as a senior (or equivalent) full-stack/product engineer working on production-grade systems
- Deep proficiency in TypeScript
- Demonstrated success building and scaling applications using Next.js
- Solid backend engineering foundation, including API design, server-side logic, and troubleshooting in live environments
- Expertise in PostgreSQL and SQL, with a strong grasp of query optimization and data modeling principles
- Practical judgment in using ORMs, with the ability to leverage raw SQL when appropriate
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and navigating real-world edge cases and failure scenarios
- Familiarity with AWS services such as S3, SQS, Secrets Manager, ECS/Fargate, Lambda workflows, RDS, and DynamoDB
- Willingness to support internal tools and operational workflows as part of end-to-end ownership
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally
- Experience with Prisma
- Background in building internal tools or operational systems
- Exposure to analytics, reporting features, or data products
- Working knowledge of infrastructure concepts, including Terraform
- Familiarity with platforms such as NetSuite, HubSpot, Shopify, Slack, or similar business systems
- Experience with Python
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