IMPORTANT TO NOTE: This job post is for a full-time, remote contractor role. It is focused on candidates from Ghana who can commit to working a minimum of 6 hours during normal business hours overlapping with the US Central Time zone. WHO YOU ARE Full-stack Engineer Consultant You’re an experienced full-stack engineer looking for engaging, enjoyable work. You’d love to level up your skills working in different environments and get excited about seeing your projects in the real world. You like problem-solving and having a team with whom you can brainstorm simple solutions to complex problems. You want the freedom to work where you want, when you want, and with the projects you enjoy most. In your career so far, you’ve established: - 5+ years of professional experience developing rich web and/or mobile applications - Expertise with JS-based applications, and can move fluidly between frontend, backend, and different frameworks - A solid background in Modern Fullstack Development, component architecture, JS frameworks, meta-frameworks, security, databases, and interfaces. - Experience in at least one backend development language like JS, Java, C++, or Python - Experience with state management patterns and libraries - Experience with deploying applications and understanding of infrastructure best practices - Experience with CI/CD pipelines, and light devOps work - Strong communication and interpersonal skills - Strong experience with AI development tools and AI-assisted development - Experience building modern microservice-based or serverless applications - A solid understanding of Computer Science (CS degree or equivalent knowledge) - Fluently works with tools like Claude Code or Copilot to accelerate delivery while maintaining code quality - Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure, or Vercel) and CI/CD fundamentals. - Clear communicator who can explain trade-offs to non-engineers. - Database schema design and development expertise If that sounds like you, read on. We’ve got a place for you at Bitovi. WHO WE ARE Bitovi helps companies create better software and applications. We’re driven by the desire to provide value - to our clients, the technology community, and our incredible team. Every day, we design and build a wide variety of high-profile applications. We discuss and design architectures, review code, and research new front-end technologies. We talk to our clients directly, guiding them through the process, identifying potential problems and unknowns, and tackling challenges. We help one another freely. We keep a Slack channel called ask-help, which is constantly used. We develop new skills, build better developer tools, and work on new types of projects regularly—and we take the time to present at conferences, give training, and run meetups. We’re huge open source devotees, and our developer community is second to none. Our fully remote team consists of about 80 members located in the US, Canada, and other International locations. We welcome diversity and non-traditional paths into the developer profession—we want the right person, not the right collection of tech keywords. You can learn more about us with this short read:[Hello Potential Bitovian](https://www.bitovi.com/blog/hello-potential-bitovian "https://www.bitovi.com/blog/hello-potential-bitovian"). WHAT YOU’LL DO AT BITOVI You’ll get to work on interesting projects in a culture that values quality over quantity and collaboration over cowboy coding. You’ll have time each week for a one-on-one with your manager, daily stand-ups, and weekly scrum-based meetings, and time to work on presentations, articles, or other passion projects. Our engineering consultants leverage AI to perform development tasks, and have an understanding of related skills like TPO and DevOps work. The bulk of your day will be spent on development for clients, and projects you might work on include: - Leverage AI for feature development for software applications - Build Design System and Web Component libraries - Architect frontend components, routing, and state management - Architect and implement secure service layers and database architecture - Establish AI coding best practices - Swiftly build proof of concepts - Implement AI Tooling architecture in projects - Creating durable systems with tools like Temporal - Build AI automations with tools like n8n - Perform Codebase Audits & Resolving Performance Issues - Understand and implement deployment and infrastructure best practices - Coach client developers on industry best practices Consult. You’ll meet with clients regularly to learn about their needs and update them on the progress of their projects. Travel. Our development team travels to meet with our clients and internal teams in person. Travel can range from 1-2 times per year to 3-5 days every 3-4 months, and we will do our best to work around your schedule. Teach. You’ll have protected time off consulting to participate in internal team meetings, give and attend trainings, speak at conferences and meetups, create and maintain open source projects, and create various kinds of content in your area of expertise, with Bitovi’s full support. We currently provide 4 hours a month of dedicated AI enablement training and research. You’ll fit in well at Bitovi if you are: - Interested in development best practices, from writing quality code to advocating for process improvement - Passionate about learning new skills, keeping up to date with development trends, and testing new ideas - Always on time and excel at calendar management - Able to communicate well and problem-solve with empathy at the forefront - Confident in working with clients and stakeholders directly - Effective at managing a development workload across tickets and key milestones and calling out blockers - Comfortable asking questions about things you don’t know - Experienced in contributing to or using open source projects - Able to assess, explain, and effectively advocate for different technical approaches - Flexible enough to work well autonomously or as part of a larger team ## Other skills we value ### Temporal experience (working knowledge) - Has built or maintained Workflows and Activities in Temporal (any language SDK) and understands the core execution model - Familiar with basic workflow versioning concepts (e.g., using GetVersion/patching) and knows to avoid breaking changes to running workflows - Has used either Temporal Cloud or a self-hosted setup someone else administers ### Platform / DevOps experience (working knowledge) - Has deployed and run applications on Kubernetes as a consumer of the platform and is comfortable with pods, deployments, services, ConfigMaps/Secrets - Has worked with GitOps-style delivery (e.g., ArgoCD or Flux) as a user pushing changes through it, without needing to have designed the delivery model - Basic Terraform/OpenTofu literacy (can read, tweak, and apply existing modules) - Basic understanding of Helm charts - Aware of how secrets and autoscaling work in the environment (e.g., knows secrets come from a vault-backed system, knows the cluster autoscales)