Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer (Full-time, Remote, React, Node.js, AWS)

Compensation: $20k – $30k • No equity

*Please DO NOT contact us via email or any other platform when applying to this role, we would like to keep communication on Wellfound. All candidates on Wellfound will be prioritised. *

About Pixory Pixory is a fast-growing e-commerce platform for personalized photobooks. We’re building a proprietary CMS to scale globally, and we’re growing our engineering team with people who can work across the full stack, from pixel-perfect frontends to production-grade infrastructure.

Your Mission Help build and scale our e-commerce platform. You’ll work across React frontends, Node.js APIs and AWS infrastructure, shipping features that serve hundreds of thousands of users. Our senior engineers will support you on the bigger architecture decisions. The role starts in Q1 2027.

Tech Stack

Front end React 18+ with TypeScript Next.js 14+ (SSR/SSG) Tailwind CSS, responsive design Canvas libraries: Konva.js, Fabric.js or react-konva State management: Zustand, Redux Toolkit or Jotai Performance: Web Workers, OffscreenCanvas, lazy loading Unit tests: Jest

Back end Node.js 18+ (Fastify/Express) PostgreSQL with Prisma/TypeORM, indexing Redis (caching, queues) BullMQ for job processing Sharp.js for image processing REST API design and implementation

Infrastructure & DevOps AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ElastiCache, Autoscaling, DB Cluster (Master/Slave) Docker containerization CI/CD: GitHub Actions Monitoring: CloudWatch, Grafana

Required Experience 3 to 5 years of full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript 2+ years of React in production environments 2+ years of Node.js backend in production Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, RDS, S3 minimum) Some Docker and CI/CD pipeline experience PostgreSQL or a similar SQL database REST API design and implementation A solid grasp of DevOps basics and a wish to grow into architecture decisions

Must-Haves React and TypeScript production experience Node.js backend experience on live production apps Hands-on AWS experience, not just certifications A track record of shipping and deploying real features to production A proactive problem-solver who owns their work and knows when to ask for input

Nice-to-Have Experience in photobooks, print-on-demand or design tools Image processing work (crop, resize, format conversion) Open-source contributions in the React/Canvas ecosystem E-commerce platform development Payment integrations (Stripe, PayPal) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Kubernetes)

Print/PDF Production (Big Bonus) CMYK color space management PDF generation: LaTeX, Puppeteer, PDF-lib or similar Print specifications: bleed, trim boxes, ICC profiles Command-line tools: ImageMagick, Ghostscript

Who You Are Passionate: genuinely excited about technology and always learning Growth-minded: you look for feedback and want to grow into a senior role Scale-aware: you think about performance and scalability as you build Ownership: you take your features from ticket through to production Independent: you work well with light supervision and know when to ask for help Clear communicator: you keep your team updated on progress and blockers Pragmatic: you balance code quality with shipping velocity

Why Pixory You’ll join a fully remote, lean and fast-moving team building a product that’s already generating significant revenue. It’s a great place to grow fast. You’ll work on real production systems at scale, alongside senior engineers, with real ownership from day one.

We prioritize real experience over years on a CV. An engineer with live production apps and hands-on AWS is more valuable to us than someone who’s never deployed beyond localhost.

Please DO NOT contact us via email when applying to this role. We’d like to keep communication on Wellfound, and all candidates on Wellfound will be prioritised.

We look forward to receiving your application!