Full Stack Engineer

Location

Americas; Buenos Aires; Lisbon; Montevideo; Sao Paulo; Warsaw

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

ENGINEERING

Overview

Percona is looking for a flexible and efficient Full Stack Software Engineer to join its Global Advanced Services team. You will work on database management and related solutions, doing both new feature development and bug fixing in close collaboration with our services teams. You will work from your home office, using online tools and resources to contribute to a fast-moving and high-performing development environment for Percona and its customers. Access to a reliable high-speed internet connection is required. Flexible work hours. What You Will Do:

• Design, code, implement, and document improvements to a high standard
• Design and develop robust, responsive web applications using React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems
• Build and maintain backend services that integrate with database systems and operational tooling
• Translate UI/UX design wireframes into high-quality code
• Create and submit patches for review, perform periodic source code merges
• Perform root cause analysis of customer-impacting defects to provide the optimal solution
• Develop test cases for continuous integration deployment
• Participate in code and design reviews
• Diagnose and fix defects
• Create documentation about your work that is consumable and can be refined by our documentation team
• Share your knowledge by attending and speaking at related conferences and writing blog posts about your work, participating in our public forums
• Provide Support to our Services Teams

Your Experience:

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on, production experience as a full stack engineer, including related tools / build processes (e.g. pip, make/Jenkins, containers) in Linux environments.
• Self-motivated with a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
• Experience building and operating web services for production users
• Experience with Python web frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django
• Proficiency in React and JavaScript (ES6+)
• Experience with MUI (Material-UI), HTML5, CSS3, and pre-processors (LESS/SASS)
• Understanding of React workflows (Hooks, Context API, or Redux)
• Experience with modern build pipelines (Vite or Webpack)
• UI engineering best practices: accessibility, responsive design, and performance
• UX theory and practice
• Familiarity with relational databases and data modeling concepts
• Distributed system development and/or database-related development
• Working autonomously in a globally distributed organization
• Collaborating with open-source communities and colleagues via mailing lists, IRC, Slack, etc.
• Using collaboration/tracking tools like Jira/Notion
• Ability to speak, listen, and write effectively in fluent English
• Quick learner & great team player

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• Experience with data visualization or charting libraries (d3, Highcharts, Rickshaw, etc.)
• Experience working with OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
• Experience with Docker
• Experience building distributed web apps
• Experience migrating server-side templates to Single Page Applications
• Experience with Micro Frontend architecture
• Database management knowledge
• Proven success working in a distributed environment
• Additional programming languages such as Go or Rust
• Shell scripting
• Automation in Linux environments
• Test Driven Development and practical experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing)