Remote | Software Engineer, Internal Platforms — $200,000–$280,000/year

Summary

24-MAG LLC connects experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams. The Software Engineer will build and improve internal platforms, full-stack systems, backend services, APIs, React interfaces, data models, and cloud infrastructure while supporting production reliability and internal workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop end-to-end full-stack systems supporting critical internal workflows and platform capabilities
• Build scalable backend services and APIs with clear interfaces and ownership
• Develop high-quality, performant frontend applications for internal teams and stakeholders
• Translate ambiguous operational and product requirements into reliable technical systems
• Contribute to systems across the full lifecycle from design through implementation and production support
• Build backend services using Node.js and modern TypeScript-based frameworks
• Design and maintain RESTful APIs and distributed system integrations
• Contribute to relational data modelling, schema design, and query optimisation
• Work with PostgreSQL and comparable relational database technologies
• Improve backend maintainability, scalability, and reliability as platform requirements evolve
• Develop internal interfaces using React or comparable frontend frameworks
• Build workflows that improve operational efficiency and usability for internal teams
• Apply strong frontend engineering principles across performance, maintainability, and component design
• Contribute to internal developer platforms, operational tooling, and workflow automation where relevant
• Ensure frontend systems integrate reliably with backend services and internal data sources
• Improve platform observability, reliability, and developer experience
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous engineering improvement
• Debug and resolve production issues while improving long-term operational resilience
• Make pragmatic trade-offs between development speed, scalability, and maintainability
• Support monitoring, deployment, and infrastructure practices that improve platform stability

Skills

• Experience building or contributing to production full-stack systems through professional work, internships, or substantial projects
• Strong TypeScript fundamentals across frontend, backend, or both
• Familiarity with backend development using Node.js, with NestJS experience advantageous
• Experience building user interfaces with React or comparable frontend frameworks
• Strong understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL and core data-modelling principles
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and distributed system communication patterns
• Exposure to AWS or another major cloud platform
• Awareness of modern architectural approaches including microservices, serverless systems, or event-driven architectures
• Strong problem-solving ability, attention to detail, and ownership mindset
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous and fast-moving technical environments
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, or DevOps workflows is advantageous
• Experience building internal developer platforms, operational tooling, or workflow automation systems is beneficial
• Exposure to AI-adjacent, data-heavy, or machine-learning-powered products is advantageous
• Experience within startup, research, lab, or high-growth engineering environments is beneficial
• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and platform-reliability best practices is strongly valued

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Experience building or contributing to production full-stack systems through professional work, internships, or substantial projects
• Strong TypeScript fundamentals across frontend, backend, or both
• Familiarity with backend development using Node.js, with NestJS experience advantageous
• Experience building user interfaces with React or comparable frontend frameworks
• Strong understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL and core data-modelling principles
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and distributed system communication patterns
• Exposure to AWS or another major cloud platform
• Awareness of modern architectural approaches including microservices, serverless systems, or event-driven architectures
• Strong problem-solving ability, attention to detail, and ownership mindset
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous and fast-moving technical environments
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, or DevOps workflows is advantageous
• Experience building internal developer platforms, operational tooling, or workflow automation systems is beneficial
• Exposure to AI-adjacent, data-heavy, or machine-learning-powered products is advantageous
• Experience within startup, research, lab, or high-growth engineering environments is beneficial
• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and platform-reliability best practices is strongly valued

Benefits

• Fully remote