Senior Full Stack Web Engineer

Description

Step into a high-impact role where you’ll shape the future of our web platform from end to end. As a Senior Full Stack Web Engineer, you’ll own complex, customer-facing features, turn ideas into scalable solutions, and help define the technical direction of key products. You’ll work closely with our Staff Engineers on architecture and performance, making sure our systems are fast, reliable, and built to grow.

 

You’ll also be a go-to mentor for other engineers—pairing, reviewing code, and championing best practices that raise the bar for the entire team. If you enjoy solving hard problems, collaborating across disciplines, and leaving things better than you found them, you’ll feel right at home here.

 

The Senior Full Stack Web Engineer is responsible for building and enhancing web applications, ensuring code quality, and driving productivity. This role involves mentoring associate team members, collaborating closely with the Staff Engineers to influence technical decisions, and ensuring adherence to department standards and best practices. In this position, you will take ownership of complex features, optimize system performance, and contribute to architectural decisions to ensure scalability and reliability. As a senior member of the team, you will play a key role in fostering collaboration, promoting continuous improvement, and setting a high bar for development excellence. This position is remote work eligible.

 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and enhancement of web applications using React and Node.js.

• Implement and optimize SQL queries (MariaDB) and work with queuing/caching technologies like Redis and RabbitMQ.

• Lead the development of RESTful APIs for third-party integrations, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.

• Build and optimize event-driven microservices using messaging software like RabbitMQ and NATS to facilitate asynchronous communication.

• Mentor associate engineers and conduct code reviews to ensure high standards of quality, helping them write more efficient, reusable, and scalable code.

• Focus on maintaining and improving code quality, processes, and team productivity.

• Ensure the technical structure of the codebase is maintained and adheres to best practices.

• Participate actively in Scrum events, helping to set sprint priorities and ensure the team meets its goals.

• Undertake additional assigned duties as requested.
  
  

 Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Mentor associate engineers, providing technical guidance and feedback.
  
  

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED required.

• 5+ years of experience in full stack development with React, Node.js, and REST APIs.

• Strong experience with SQL databases (MariaDB) and queuing/caching technologies (Redis, RabbitMQ, NATS).

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions).

• Proficiency in using Git for version control and Jira for project tracking.

• Strong communication and leadership skills.

• Spanish speaking bi-lingual candidates are encouraged to apply.

• Candidates may be requested to complete position specific skills assessments.

• Applicants must be either a U.S. Citizen or eligible to work in the U.S.

• Requires the ability to satisfactorily complete a background check.
  
  

Working Settings:

• Full-time Salaried Exempt, not eligible for overtime.
• Office hours are 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday, Central Time zone, additional hours may be required depending on priorities.

• This position is remote work eligible within the United States. Please be aware: the first week of employment includes mandatory in-person training. Remote start arrangements are not available.

• Also mandatory: One week a year of in-person training with the department
• Potential for 10% travel, should the need arise.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
  
  

Compensation:

• The salary varies based on experience and qualifications, but typically ranges from $90,000 to $105,000 per year.
• Monthly Bonus Program - determined by the Company’s monthly revenue result and are paid on a “percent to plan” payout formula (90% = $300, 100% = $600, 110% = $900, 120% = $1,200).
• Monthly phone stipend in accordance with the Company’s cell phone policy, currently $120/month.
• Health, Dental, and Vision starting the first of the month following start date.
• 401(k) plan with an employer match up to 4% starting the first day of employment.
• Fully paid Short-Term Disability provided by the Company.
• Company-paid Life Insurance benefit of $25,000 with options to add more through employee contribution starting the first of the month after start date.
• Fully paid Short-Term Disability provided by the Company.
• Personal Time Off (PTO) annual amount of 120 hours which is prorated based on the number of days between the 60th day of employment and the end of the calendar year. May vary to comply with state requirements.
• Eligible to participate in the Company Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) after 90 days of employment, with enrollment opportunities each May and November.

Summary

About Purple Wave

Visit us at: PurpleWave.com

 

Purple Wave Auction is a leader in the equipment auction industry focusing on construction, ag, fleet, and government equipment.  We are a data-driven, quickly changing and evolving, growing organization.  Our focus is on marketing the assets we sell for our customers to find the highest quality bidders for the best recoveries for our sellers.  We strive to make this transaction Straight, Simple, and Sold.  We live daily by our core values of trust, team, care, and passion to be the place people want to work and our customers want to return to for their equipment buying and selling needs for their businesses.

 

Purple Wave Auction is the largest no-reserve Internet auction company in the Midwest.

• We have over 300 employees, nearly doubling in size in the last three years.
• We have a robust tech team and continue to invest in progressive techniques to enhance our services.
• While working at Purple Wave, you will have the opportunity to help our mission of being the easiest, most straightforward place to buy and sell used equipment. 
• Purple Wave empowers its employees to solve problems effectively in a family-run business culture.
• We provide opportunities for continued education as you grow your career with tuition reimbursement. We have a generous benefits package in one of the fastest-growing companies in the area.

 

Purple Wave is looking for an enthusiastic person to join our growing team to support our customers as we bring our values of Trust, Team, Care and Passion to them. 

 

Purple Wave Auction Core Values:

• TRUST:  We are trustworthy…Our business depends upon our integrity and our customer’s ability to trust Purple Wave and its people:  to enforce a fair, transparent unreserved auction marketplace; to safeguard their bidding information; to give a full effort on behalf of their asset(s); We are transparent, accountable and fair.
• TEAM:  WE ARE A TEAM…We respect, support, appreciate and inspire each other; We communicate and follow-through; We need each other. We do our best work when we work together.
• CARE:  WE CARE…We care for our customers. We look out for their best interests. We work hard for them. We “go the extra mile”.
• PASSION:  WE ARE PASSIONATE…We are positive, we are enthusiastic, we take pride in our work, we own our responsibilities and we deliver; When we see problems, we fix them. We learn from our mistakes. We improve ourselves and Purple Wave every day; We believe Purple Wave can be the best marketplace for used equipment and we are committed to make it happen. 

 

Equal Opportunity Employer

Equal Opportunity is a Purple Wave, Inc. policy. It is our practice to select the best-qualified candidate for each position in the organization. No employee of the Company will discriminate against an applicant for employment or a fellow employee because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, or other physical or mental disability, military or veteran status. 

 

Notice of Background Check

As a condition of your employment, you will be required to sign the Company’s Authorization for Background Check, and to provide the Company with documents establishing your identity and right to work in the United States.