Full Stack Developer
Summary
Build and own a React/Django SaaS stack on AWS: migrate manual processes to CI/CD, secure the codebase, and set up real-time features with Django Channels and WebSockets.
Singapore | Remote considered for candidates in Vietnam or Indonesia
Role Summary
As our Full Stack Developer, you'll take end-to-end ownership of both production applications and the AWS infrastructure that serves them. That means the React SPA and its build pipeline, the Django/Channels backend and its real-time WebSocket layer, our companion Node/Express CommonDB service, and the AWS hosting and DevOps practices tying it all together. You'll bring structure and modern engineering practice — version control, CI/CD, infrastructure as code — to a codebase that's currently run by the founder with AI-assisted tooling, and you'll have real autonomy to shape how it's built going forward.
What You'll Work On Frontend: Maintain and evolve the React (CRA) single-page app, including its code-split bundle structure, geospatial mapping (OpenLayers), and CAD/BIM viewing integrations (Sketchfab, Autodesk APS/Forge for Revit, Navisworks, and Inventor files). Backend & real-time: Develop and extend the Django backend, including the Django Channels/ASGI real-time layer that powers live WebSocket features, served through Daphne and Nginx. Async processing: Own the Celery, Celery Beat, and Flower job pipeline for background and scheduled work. Integrations: Maintain the Node/Express CommonDB service and external integrations including Autodesk APS/Forge, Stripe, and Google Maps. Cloud & DevOps: Manage and evolve our AWS footprint in ap-southeast-1 — EC2, ALB, CloudFront/OAC, S3, ACM, Route 53 — including migrating manual deployment processes into automated, reproducible pipelines. Take ownership of the source code itself: import the React and Django repositories into Git and establish a proper branching and versioning workflow.
Tech Stack You'll Work With Frontend:
React (Create React App) with code-split bundles, OpenLayers, Sketchfab viewer, Autodesk Platform Services (APS/Forge), Chart.js, Bootstrap 4, Font Awesome, animate.css, toastr, jQuery, Stripe.js, Google Maps, Google Analytics, and custom i18n (English, Malay, Indonesian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French) Backend & real-time:
Django, Django Channels (ASGI), Daphne, Nginx reverse proxy, Django REST Framework token auth, Django admin Async / jobs:
Celery, Celery Beat, Flower, Redis/ElastiCache broker Other services:
CommonDB (Node.js/Express API on EC2), Autodesk APS/Forge OAuth integration AWS / hosting:
EC2, EBS (GP2GP3), VPC/subnets/security groups, Application Load Balancer, ACM, CloudFront (OAC, CloudFront Functions), S3, Route 53 DevOps & tooling:
Git, AWS CloudShell, AWS Budgets & Cost Anomaly Detection, S3 Intelligent-Tiering (current state); GitHub Actions/OIDC, Terraform/CloudFormation (target state)
Must-Have Skills Strong React experience, including Create React App projects: code-splitting, hashed asset builds, and client-side SPA routing. Solid Python/Django experience; familiarity with Django Channels, ASGI, and WebSockets is a strong plus. Working knowledge of core AWS services: EC2, S3, CloudFront, ALB, ACM, IAM, VPC, and Route 53. Proficiency with Git and standard branching/versioning workflows. A security-minded approach to frontend builds — comfortable identifying and removing browser-exposed secrets, fixing mixed-content issues, and excluding source maps from production.
Nice-to-Have / Bonus Experience with Autodesk Platform Services / Forge, or CAD/BIM file formats (Revit, Navisworks, Inventor). 3D/WebGL experience, particularly three.js. Celery, Celery Beat, and Flower for async job orchestration. Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation. CI/CD pipeline design, especially GitHub Actions with OIDC. Payment integration experience (Stripe). Geospatial mapping (OpenLayers) and multi-language i18n at scale. Node.js/Express experience. Containerization (Docker). AWS Cognito, or AWS cost-optimization practices (Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, S3 Intelligent-Tiering).
Who You Are You take genuine ownership — you don't wait to be told what to fix next. You're security-minded by default, not just when prompted. You're pragmatic: comfortable balancing shipping speed against technical debt in an early-stage environment. You communicate clearly and directly with a non-DevOps founder, translating technical tradeoffs into plain language. You're comfortable working alongside AI-assisted development and DevOps workflows.
Why Join Us
This is a rare opportunity to take a live, revenue-generating SaaS product and architect its engineering foundations from the ground up — building the CI/CD pipeline, introducing Infrastructure as Code, and hardening production security — with full visibility into your impact and high autonomy over how the work gets done. You won't be one of many engineers maintaining someone else's system; you'll be the engineer who defines how this system is built and run going forward.
What You'll Work On Frontend: Maintain and evolve the React (CRA) single-page app, including its code-split bundle structure, geospatial mapping (OpenLayers), and CAD/BIM viewing integrations (Sketchfab, Autodesk APS/Forge for Revit, Navisworks, and Inventor files). Backend & real-time: Develop and extend the Django backend, including the Django Channels/ASGI real-time layer that powers live WebSocket features, served through Daphne and Nginx. Async processing: Own the Celery, Celery Beat, and Flower job pipeline for background and scheduled work. Integrations: Maintain the Node/Express CommonDB service and external integrations including Autodesk APS/Forge, Stripe, and Google Maps. Cloud & DevOps: Manage and evolve our AWS footprint in ap-southeast-1 — EC2, ALB, CloudFront/OAC, S3, ACM, Route 53 — including migrating manual deployment processes into automated, reproducible pipelines. Take ownership of the source code itself: import the React and Django repositories into Git and establish a proper branching and versioning workflow.
Tech Stack You'll Work With Frontend:
React (Create React App) with code-split bundles, OpenLayers, Sketchfab viewer, Autodesk Platform Services (APS/Forge), Chart.js, Bootstrap 4, Font Awesome, animate.css, toastr, jQuery, Stripe.js, Google Maps, Google Analytics, and custom i18n (English, Malay, Indonesian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French) Backend & real-time:
Django, Django Channels (ASGI), Daphne, Nginx reverse proxy, Django REST Framework token auth, Django admin Async / jobs:
Celery, Celery Beat, Flower, Redis/ElastiCache broker Other services:
CommonDB (Node.js/Express API on EC2), Autodesk APS/Forge OAuth integration AWS / hosting:
EC2, EBS (GP2GP3), VPC/subnets/security groups, Application Load Balancer, ACM, CloudFront (OAC, CloudFront Functions), S3, Route 53 DevOps & tooling:
Git, AWS CloudShell, AWS Budgets & Cost Anomaly Detection, S3 Intelligent-Tiering (current state); GitHub Actions/OIDC, Terraform/CloudFormation (target state)
Must-Have Skills Strong React experience, including Create React App projects: code-splitting, hashed asset builds, and client-side SPA routing. Solid Python/Django experience; familiarity with Django Channels, ASGI, and WebSockets is a strong plus. Working knowledge of core AWS services: EC2, S3, CloudFront, ALB, ACM, IAM, VPC, and Route 53. Proficiency with Git and standard branching/versioning workflows. A security-minded approach to frontend builds — comfortable identifying and removing browser-exposed secrets, fixing mixed-content issues, and excluding source maps from production.
Nice-to-Have / Bonus Experience with Autodesk Platform Services / Forge, or CAD/BIM file formats (Revit, Navisworks, Inventor). 3D/WebGL experience, particularly three.js. Celery, Celery Beat, and Flower for async job orchestration. Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation. CI/CD pipeline design, especially GitHub Actions with OIDC. Payment integration experience (Stripe). Geospatial mapping (OpenLayers) and multi-language i18n at scale. Node.js/Express experience. Containerization (Docker). AWS Cognito, or AWS cost-optimization practices (Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, S3 Intelligent-Tiering).
Who You Are You take genuine ownership — you don't wait to be told what to fix next. You're security-minded by default, not just when prompted. You're pragmatic: comfortable balancing shipping speed against technical debt in an early-stage environment. You communicate clearly and directly with a non-DevOps founder, translating technical tradeoffs into plain language. You're comfortable working alongside AI-assisted development and DevOps workflows.
Why Join Us
This is a rare opportunity to take a live, revenue-generating SaaS product and architect its engineering foundations from the ground up — building the CI/CD pipeline, introducing Infrastructure as Code, and hardening production security — with full visibility into your impact and high autonomy over how the work gets done. You won't be one of many engineers maintaining someone else's system; you'll be the engineer who defines how this system is built and run going forward.