Full Stack Developer
About Nexus Prop:
Nexus Prop builds infrastructure for proprietary trading firms, including customer portals, CRM and administrative tools, trading technology, risk management, payments, education, fraud prevention, and third-party platform integrations.
We are seeking a Full Stack Developer to help support, improve, and scale the Nexus platform as we onboard additional customers and expand our product offering.
**The Role**
This developer will work across the application stack, supporting both customer-facing experiences and internal operational systems. The role combines product development, systems integration, troubleshooting, and production support.
You will collaborate directly with company leadership, quantitative developers, and operational stakeholders. This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys owning meaningful features, solving complex technical problems, and working in a fast-moving product environment.
**Responsibilities**
Develop and maintain customer-facing web and mobile experiences
Build and improve CRM, administrative, trading, risk, education, and account-management functionality
Design and maintain backend APIs, services, database models, and background workers
Integrate with trading platforms, payment providers, identity-verification services, communication tools, and other third-party systems
Diagnose and resolve application, data, integration, and production issues
Improve platform performance, reliability, observability, and security
Write database migrations and maintain data integrity across customer environments
Support AWS-based deployments and infrastructure
Build reusable, configurable features for dedicated customer deployments and white-label environments
Participate in code reviews, testing, release validation, and technical documentation
Help establish durable engineering practices as the team and customer base grow
**Preferred Experience**
Professional full stack software development experience
Strong experience with TypeScript and JavaScript
Experience with React and modern frontend development
Experience building Node.js APIs and backend services
Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational data modeling
Experience with AWS, Docker, and containerized deployments
Familiarity with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure as code
Experience integrating third-party APIs, webhooks, and authentication systems
Ability to debug issues across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data layers
Strong judgment around security, permissions, customer data, and production changes
Experience with React Native or Expo, Terraform, ECS, financial technology, brokerage APIs, real-time data, payments, or trading systems is helpful but not required.
**What We Value**
Practical ownership and follow-through
Clear communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Comfort working in an evolving product and codebase
Careful handling of production systems and customer data
Ability to balance speed with maintainability
Curiosity and willingness to learn unfamiliar systems
A collaborative mindset and comfort working directly with company leadership
**Work Environment**
This position is based in the Grand Rapids area. We prefer someone who can work from our Grand Rapids office a couple of days per week while retaining flexibility for focused remote work.
**To Apply**
Please provide a resume, examples of relevant work or projects, and a brief description of your experience building and supporting production web applications.
Pay: $40.00 - $52.00 per hour
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Grand Rapids, MI 49503