Lead Fullstack Engineer (React.js)

Andela Talent Cloud is the industry’s only unified solution to manage the complete global talent lifecycle. We help enterprises source, qualify, hire, manage, and pay global technical talent in one integrated platform.Market leaders partner with Andela to help rewrite their workforce strategies to include global, remote talent from over 175 countries to scale their teams and deliver projects faster.Andela Talent Cloud provides an intelligent, AI-driven platform that helps enterprises build remote-fluent teams from emerging geographies such as Africa and Latin America. Powerful AI-matching algorithms learn from thousands of data points in the hiring journey to pinpoint the best engineers up to 70% faster at 30 to 50% less cost than other hiring approaches. Andela caters to specialized disciplines such as Application Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, and Data & Analytics, with over 30 specific use cases. The world’s best brands trust Andela, including GitHub, Mastercard Foundry, ViacomCBS, and Mindshare.Responsibilities/What you will be doingTechnical Leadership — Define and own the architectural vision and implementation strategy for full-stack systems. Establish technical standards, patterns, and scalable frameworks across both frontend and backend. Make opinionated choices on separation of concerns and push back on overengineering.AI-Augmented Development — Actively integrate AI tools into your development workflow for planning, code generation, debugging, and testing. Critically evaluate AI-generated output — catching complexity, duplication, or architectural drift before it takes root. Beyond your own practice, you'll champion AI adoption across the team: identifying opportunities where AI can reduce toil, accelerate delivery, and raise the quality bar. You'll share workflows, prompt strategies, and tooling discoveries that make the whole team faster — not just yourself.Hands-on Contribution — Contribute directly to the codebase with a focus on maintainability, reliability, and performance. Build intuitive, interactive user interfaces to a high frontend standard while also delivering robust APIs and backend services using technologies such as React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and Go.Mentorship & Team Development — Act as a player-coach for a growing team. Provide structured mentorship, code review guidance, and ongoing feedback that fosters career growth and engineering excellence.Cross-Functional Collaboration — Partner closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to translate high-level goals into technical deliverables. Ask sharp questions during requirements gathering and translate ambiguity into clear implementation plans.Strategic Impact — Drive initiatives that improve developer velocity, operational efficiency, and code quality. Proactively identify technical risks, scalability challenges, and long-term architectural needs — including tradeoffs in distributed systems, CAP theorem considerations, and service design.Process & Culture Building — Champion best practices in code quality, security (OWASP Top Ten, OAuth 2.0), testing (TDD/automation coverage), and observability (alerting and monitoring). Help shape a culture of learning, accountability, and high ownership.Required Skills & Experience ("Must-Haves")Core Experience: 7+ years of professional full-stack development experience, featuring at least 2 years specifically in a technical leadership, architectural direction, or mentorship capacity.Frontend Tech Stack: Expert-level proficiency with React, TypeScript/JavaScript (ES6+), and Next.js. Must possess a strong frontend sensibility regarding usability, UX details, and intuitive interface design patterns.Backend Tech Stack: Solid backend development experience utilizing Go (Golang) or Python.Data & APIs: Proficient in building and consuming both RESTful and GraphQL APIs. Fluency working with both relational (SQL) and NoSQL database environments.Architectural Depth: Demonstrated ability to design and scale distributed, high-performance web applications. Sourcing should look for foundational knowledge in distributed system tradeoffs, service design, data pipelines, ETL patterns, and CAP theorem considerations.AI Workflow Maturity: Candidates must demonstrate mature AI utilization (e.g., using AI tools for planning, code generation, debugging, and testing) and be able to articulate how and when they apply prompts/tooling to accelerate delivery without sacrificing code quality.Security & Infrastructure: Solid grasp of security fundamentals, specifically OWASP Top Ten and OAuth 2.0. Practical experience deploying via cloud infrastructure (AWS) and setting up CI/CD automation pipelines.Leadership Style: A true "player-coach" capable of balancing hands-on codebase contributions with people leadership, structured mentorship, and rigorous code reviews.Preferred Skills & Competencies ("Nice-to-Haves" / Bonus)Real-Time Architectures: Experience engineering real-time systems, WebSockets, or multiplayer game architectures.Advanced AI/Identity: Direct exposure to ML/AI systems, Large Language Model (LLM) integration, or digital identity platforms.3D Pipelines: Familiarity with 3D graphic pipelines, model-building workflows, or image processing.Framework Background: A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is preferred (though equivalent practical experience is accepted).This is a 12 months contract for one of our clientsAt Andela, we know our strengths lie in our diverse community whose talents, perspectives, backgrounds, and orientations we take pride in. 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