Senior Software Engineer

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Remote / Client-Facing)

Connective Consulting is a Milwaukee-based digital consultancy, helping teams build software that works for both the people using it and the business behind it. We deliver deep engineering expertise and a problem-solving mindset to every engagement, closing the gap between what a business needs and what the software actually delivers. Like connective tissue, we bring structure, cohesion, and strength where it's needed most. While we're headquartered in Milwaukee, our team is fully distributed. We value remote work, flexibility, and true cross-team collaboration.

What You'll Do / Responsibilities

As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer at Connective, you'll:

• Be a technical partner to clients and internal teams, helping them understand technical tradeoffs, constraints, and recommendations in a clear, client-friendly way. Participate in client discovery, scoping, and architecture phases.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, provide code reviews, and help establish best practices.
• Collaborate with product management, UX/design teams, and QA to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Contribute to architectural decisions around scaling, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Support deployment, monitoring, incident response, and ongoing maintenance of production systems.
• Help the firm evolve engineering standards, tooling, processes, and delivery practices.

What We're Looking For / Qualifications

We believe success in this role comes from a mix of technical depth, consulting mindset, and strong communication. You'll be a great fit if you have:

• 5+ years of full-stack development under your belt.
• Comfortable with modern back-end frameworks like Node, Django,.NET Core, or Rails. Your front-end game is strong, especially with frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, or similar.
• You've designed robust REST or GraphQL APIs and built well-structured schemas across both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Integrating with third-party APIs and services? No problem for you.
• A track record of taking features from start to finish, even when things are a bit fuzzy or lightly specified.
• You communicate clearly with both technical teams and non-technical clients. You thrive in a remote environment, are self-driven, responsive, and proactive in working across distributed teams.
• You have experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, as well as CI/CD pipelines and version control workflows.
• Ability to mentor others and help shape team standards.

What You'll Get / Why Work Here

Competitive compensation and benefits. We're a remote-first team, so you can work from wherever you're most productive. Candidates based in Wisconsin are preferred, as we enjoy getting together in person from time to time. Tackle a wide range of projects across diverse industries, each with unique technical and business challenges. Make a direct impact; your work drives outcomes and shapes the success of the company. Join a super collaborative, tight-knit team where everyone's voice matters. Accelerate your growth through hands-on client work, strong mentorship, and continuous skill development.