Senior Full Stack Engineer (Angular + Python)

About the role

As our Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll be essential in achieving TestGorilla's vision of helping one billion people land their dream job. You'll lead the design and development of scalable, user-friendly features that empower candidates and hiring teams alike. This isn't just a role; it's your chance to make a real difference by shaping a product that levels the playing field for talent around the world. You’ll directly contribute to delivering a reliable, high-quality platform that helps companies make fair, skills-based hiring decisions at scale. Join our driven, remote-first team, and let’s achieve these ambitious goals together.

Responsibilities

In this role, your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Own features end-to-end across the stack - from building robust backend services to crafting delightful user experiences
• Design and implement highly scalable and reliable architectures using modern technologies (e.g., Python, Django, Angular, AWS)
• Lead the full software development lifecycle - from ideation to deployment and everything in between
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code across backend and frontend systems
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build intuitive and impactful user experiences
• Optimize both backend and frontend performance for speed, scalability, and reliability
• Mentor and support less-experienced engineers through technical guidance and leadership
• Contribute to and improve DevOps pipelines, ensuring efficient and secure deployments
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing across disciplines

What you’ll bring

• Uphold TestGorilla's behaviors and foster an inclusive, supportive culture.
• Collaborate effectively with global colleagues across teams and time zones.
• You have strong full stack experience delivering production-ready applications with modern backend and frontend technologies
• You aim for excellence—pixel-perfect UI, high-quality code, and lightning-fast load times
• You have experience designing, implementing, running, and maintaining scalable backend services, including REST APIs and event-driven architectures
• You ensure code quality by writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• You participate in code reviews, contribute to architecture discussions, and mentor other team members through knowledge sharing and guidance
• You’re fluent with relational and NoSQL databases and understand cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and deployment practices
• You have a solid understanding of UX/UI design, usability, and accessibility
• You highly value building a world-class engineering team and helping others grow
• You’re motivated by about continuously improving your skills and learning new technologies
• You enjoy influencing others and promote technical excellence while staying open to change
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and approach challenges from multiple perspectives
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills—you validate your decisions and explain them clearly