Full Stack Engineer

Job description

## About Feathery Feathery automates data intake workflows for insurance and wealth management firms. Industry leaders rely on Feathery to power mission-critical workflows like underwriting, client onboarding, and automated account openings. With rapid revenue growth and expanding enterprise demand, we’re scaling our engineering team to support increasingly complex, data-intensive workflows across our platform. ## Why We’re Hiring As Feathery grows, both the complexity of our backend systems and the sophistication of our frontend product experience are increasing. We’re hiring a Full Stack Engineer to help build and scale core product capabilities end-to-end. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys owning features across the stack — from designing APIs and backend systems to crafting intuitive, high-performance user interfaces. You’ll work closely with product, design, and engineering to ship impactful features and shape the overall architecture of the platform. ## About the Role This is a high-ownership role that blends: - Full stack product development (frontend + backend) - System design and API development - UI/UX implementation and performance optimization - Cross-functional collaboration with product and design You’ll zoom out to influence system architecture and zoom in to deliver polished, end-to-end product experiences. ## What You’ll Do ### Full Stack Product Development - Design and build end-to-end features across frontend and backend systems - Develop APIs and services that power core product functionality - Build intuitive, responsive, and high-performance user interfaces - Own features from concept through production ### Backend Systems & Infrastructure - Build and scale backend services for workflow automation and data processing - Develop asynchronous pipelines and distributed systems for handling large volume of data - Work with AWS services and queueing systems (e.g., SQS) to support scalable infrastructure - Ensure reliability, performance, and observability across systems ### Frontend Experience & Performance - Implement user interfaces using modern frameworks (e.g., React) - Optimize frontend performance, responsiveness, and usability - Collaborate with design to deliver polished, accessible user experiences - Contribute to frontend architecture and component systems ### Cross-Functional Collaboration - Partner with product and design to define and build new features - Work with other engineers to integrate APIs and data models effectively - Contribute to product planning, technical scoping, and architecture decisions - Help translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions ## About You - 3–6+ years of experience building full stack applications - Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React) - Experience with backend frameworks such as Node.js, Django, or similar - Experience designing APIs and working with distributed systems or asynchronous processing - Familiarity with AWS and cloud infrastructure - Strong understanding of performance, scalability, and reliability - Experience shipping features end-to-end in a collaborative environment - Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment - Strong communication and collaboration skills ## Bonus - Experience building workflow tools, internal platforms, or data-heavy applications - Familiarity with document processing, OCR, or AI/ML integrations - Experience with drag-and-drop interfaces or complex frontend state management - Experience optimizing systems for high throughput and low latency - Background in financial services or other regulated industries - Experience at a high-growth B2B SaaS company ## What We Offer - Competitive compensation and equity - Health, dental, and vision coverage - Unlimited PTO - Downtown Toronto office location - Office snacks and lunches - A supportive, low-ego team that values ownership and growth - Company offsite to connect and recharge If you’re excited about building end-to-end product experiences that power critical workflows — and want to have a meaningful impact at a fast-growing startup — we’d love to meet you. Feathery is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic. We’re committed to building an inclusive team and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.