Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer

Englewood, CO

Type: Contract

Category: Development

Industry: Communications

Standard Hours: Open

Reference ID: JN -092026-108579

Date Posted: 09/13/2026

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Description:

Hybrid 4 onsite / 1 work from home in Englewood, CO

Our client seeks a Full Stack Engineer to design, build, and enhance scalable video delivery platforms and applications for streaming and media experiences. The role spans backend services, modern web applications, distributed systems, and cloud-native development that supports video workflows, playback, metadata services, and content delivery. The position emphasizes event-driven architectures, caching, observability, performance, and the effective use of AI-assisted development tools.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $50.00 to $60.00/hr. w2

JN -092026-108579

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications supporting video streaming, content management, and media workflows.

• Build scalable backend services using Java and modern microservices architectures.

• Develop responsive frontend applications using modern JavaScript frameworks.

• Design and implement event-driven systems leveraging Kafka for real-time processing and integration.

• Utilize Redis for caching, session management, and high-performance services.

• Build and deploy cloud-native applications within AWS environments.

• Contribute to video platform capabilities including ingestion, encoding, transcoding, metadata, playback, monitoring, and delivery.

• Optimize performance, scalability, reliability, and observability.

• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders.

• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical planning.

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, quality, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.

• Drive best practices for security, automation, CI/CD, and engineering excellence.

Experience Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.

• Strong experience developing backend services in Java and microservices.

• Frontend experience with React, Angular, or similar frameworks using TypeScript/JavaScript.

• RESTful APIs and microservices design and consumption.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures.

• Production experience using Redis.

• Strong experience with AWS cloud services.

• Understanding of distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, and performance optimization.

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.

• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience working within Agile environments.

• Preferred: Video, streaming, OTT, media, broadcast, or content delivery experience.

• Preferred: Understanding of video streaming technologies.

• Preferred: Large-scale consumer-facing platform support.

• Preferred: CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.

• Preferred: Observability tools such as Datadog, Splunk, or Grafana.

• AI and modern engineering: use of AI coding assistants, acceleration of coding, testing, docs, and debugging with AI, evaluation of AI-generated code, integration of AI services and APIs, and application of sound engineering judgment.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ( View email address on click.appcast.io , View phone number on click.appcast.io) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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