Senior Full Stack Engineer

The Senior Full Stack Engineer leads the end-to-end development lifecycle across client engagements partnering with designers strategists and project managers to architect build deploy and maintain high-quality digital products. This role combines technical expertise with strategic thinking to deliver scalable maintainable solutions that advance client goals.

As a senior member of the team this individual independently leads technical client relationships facilitates discovery and technical workshops and drives engineering best practices across projects. They also help evaluate and advance the agencys AI-enabled development capabilities to improve delivery strengthen client solutions and increase team effectiveness.

Savas is a technology-agnostic agency with an AI-first mindset and success in this role requires curiosity adaptability and the ability to work confidently across multiple platforms and frameworks. Successful Senior Full Stack Engineers embrace AI as a core part of how they solve problems deliver technically excellent work build trusted client relationships and continuously improve how Savas designs builds and delivers digital products.

Compensation

This is a salaried full-time employee position with benefits. The salary range is $110000 to $130000 per year depending on experience. Sales commission opportunities for in-person relationship building.

Responsibilities

Client Delivery

• Lead engineering efforts across multiple client engagements from discovery through launch and long-term maintenance.
• Architect scalable maintainable and secure technical solutions aligned with client goals and business requirements.
• Build custom web applications websites APIs integrations and CMS implementations using appropriate technologies.
• Collaborate closely with designers strategists project managers and QA throughout the project lifecycle.
• Produce maintain debug optimize and extend applications and user interfaces.
• Establish and maintain local development environments using version managers containerization and modern development tooling.
• Configure and execute deployment workflows across development staging and production environments.
• Ensure work meets agency standards for accessibility performance security maintainability and documentation.
• Identify technical risks dependencies and opportunities early communicating tradeoffs and recommendations throughout delivery.
• Participate in ongoing support troubleshooting and maintenance of launched client projects.
• Comfortable balancing technical excellence with client budgets timelines and evolving priorities.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as the primary engineering voice during client meetings discovery sessions technical workshops and solution presentations.
• Lead technical planning and solution architecture for new initiatives and enhancements.
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices coding standards and development workflows.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback that improves code quality and team capability.
• Identify prioritize and help address technical debt while balancing delivery timelines and long-term maintainability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies frameworks and development practices to improve agency capabilities.

Agency Growth & Business Development

• Support business development through estimates proposals prototypes and technical discovery.
• Evaluate and implement AI-assisted development workflows.
• Contribute to internal tooling documentation knowledge sharing and process improvements.
• Participate in internal initiatives experimental projects and retreats.

Professional Knowledge

• A breadth of full-stack experience in PHP CMS (Drupal WordPress Symfony and Craft) and/or JS stacks (React/NextJS ReactNative)
• Developing themes and using templating languages
• Developing APIs and integrating with external APIs
• Deployments establishing development workflows and setting up local development environments on Docker
• Experience deploying applications across modern cloud hosting and Platform-as-a-Service environments (e.g. Pantheon Vercel Upsun).
• Creating CI/CD pipelines
• Communicating directly with clients and can effectively address non-technical audiences

Experience

• 58 years of development experience with meaningful time in an agency or consultancy environment
• Demonstrated experience leading technical discussions with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience using AI development tools responsibly to accelerate the delivery of production-ready software.
• Experience collaborating with designers using Figma or similar design tool
• Performing well in a fast-paced multi-project environment where priorities shift
• Experience making architectural decisions and balancing technical quality against project constraints.

Education & Training

Education and training commensurate with a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 58 years of experience preferably in an agency environment.

Required Experience:

Senior IC