Full Stack Developer

Looking for meaningful, high-impact work with a growing consulting firm?

We've built a new kind of part-time role for an entrepreneurial Full-Stack Web Application Developer who takes pride in exceptional output. We offer flexible, project-based contracting opportunities—typically in the range of 15–20 hours per week—designed to complement your existing commitments.

You'll collaborate with experienced, technically strong professionals who value thoughtful execution and delivering results that make a difference. Our approach emphasizes outcomes and accountability over organizational complexity.

If you're motivated by doing great work with a focused, capable team—this could be a strong fit. Read on.

Responsibilities: 

Generally speaking, our Sr. Full-Stack Web Application Developer will be responsible for working with business stakeholders and data professionals to scope, design, build, and implement data analytics web applications. This role will own both the  front-end user experience and the  back-end application architecture , ensuring the solution is intuitive, scalable, high-performing, and aligned with customer needs.

The developer will create clean, user-friendly UI/UX designs; build the back-end infrastructure and application logic; integrate with databases, APIs, and analytics platforms; and support deployment of web applications. As part of a nimble start-up, this person will have significant influence over the systems, technical approaches, and development practices used to deliver long-term value.

This role also includes responsibility for code quality, maintainability, and performance, including writing efficient reusable code, building shared components and libraries, and creating appropriate unit and integration tests. The ideal candidate is someone who can move comfortably between customer-facing design considerations and complex technical implementation.

Primary Job Duties to include:

• Full-Stack Application Ownership: Lead the design, development, deployment, and ongoing improvement of high-performance web applications across both front-end and back-end systems.
• Technical and User Design: Architect software solutions, define technical standards, make key design decisions, and develop user-friendly applications with clear documentation for long-term maintainability.
• Collaborative Development: Work closely with business partners, customers, and data professionals to scope solutions, translate business needs into working applications, and iterate based on user feedback.
• Front-End and Back-End Development: Build intuitive front-end interfaces, scalable back-end services, APIs, database integrations, microservices, and cloud-based application components.
• Code Quality and Reusability: Write clean, efficient, reusable, and maintainable code; build shared components and libraries; and ensure applications are designed for future enhancement.
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Own the quality of delivered code by writing unit tests, integration tests, and performing validation to ensure functional, reliable, and high-performing applications.
• Problem Solving: Identify and resolve complex technical challenges with simple, practical, and elegant solutions.
• Technical Leadership and Continuous Improvement: Stay current with development trends, tools, frameworks, cloud technologies, and deployment practices while helping improve team standards, infrastructure, and development processes.
• Independent Execution: Operate with limited handholding, prioritize work effectively, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and move work forward even when requirements are not fully defined.

Our Business:

While we continue to evolve in our offerings, at our core, we are a  Data-Focused Consulting Firm . Our projects span across the following 9 service areas:

Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Automation, Data Analytics & Modeling, ETL & Data Visualization, Application Development, Upskilling & Technical Project Management, Product Strategy, Strategic Communications

We are a "people first", remote organization and take great pride in promoting a healthy and happy group of professionals. While we are obsessed with producing results quickly and that wows our stakeholders, we also love to have fun, enjoy personal travel and generally just enjoy life. Our folks own businesses and do many additional things outside of their involvement with Kruse Consulting Services, we highly support and promote that lifestyle.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of professional software development; with experience in full-stack web application development across front-end, back-end, databases, APIs, and cloud-based deployments.
• Strong front-end development experience using modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, or similar, along with strong foundational web skills including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and responsive UI development.
• Strong back-end development experience using technologies such as .NET Core, Python, Java, Node.js, Django/Flask, Spring Boot, Express.js, or similar frameworks.
• Experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining scalable web applications, APIs, microservices, enterprise integrations, and reusable software components.
• Working knowledge of cloud environments and deployment practices, including version control, CI/CD, and deployment platforms such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, AWS, or Azure; Azure experience preferred.
• Expertise with database management systems such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or Databricks, including data modeling, relational database design, and writing complex queries.
• Working knowledge of web security, application performance, unit testing, integration testing, authentication, authorization, and data protection best practices.
• Proven ability to work in an Agile environment, translate business needs into usable technical solutions, make sound technical decisions, and deliver high-quality software independently and collaboratively.
• Strong product mindset, problem-solving ability, communication skills, and ability to self-organize in a remote work environment.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with OutSystems low-code development platform.
• Experience with full-stack .NET development.
• Experience with containerized environments such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with knowledge graph technologies and techniques.
• Experience in the energy industry, particularly with utility management systems, smart meter data systems, SCADA systems, or related operational technology platforms.