Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer (Full-time, Remote, React, Node.js, AWS)
Pixory is hiring a mid-level full-stack engineer to build and scale its fully remote e-commerce platform for personalized photobooks, working across React/TypeScript frontends (Next.js, canvas editors), Node.js APIs, and AWS infrastructure. The role starts in Q1 2027.
- Compensation
- $20K–$30K / yr
- Location
- Dubai
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Middle
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3 to 5 years of full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript
- 2+ years of React in production environments
- 2+ years of Node.js backend in production
- Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, RDS, S3 minimum)
- Docker and CI/CD pipeline experience
- PostgreSQL or a similar SQL database
- REST API design and implementation
- Solid grasp of DevOps basics and desire to grow into architecture decisions
- React and TypeScript production experience
- Node.js backend experience on live production apps
- Track record of shipping and deploying real features to production
Nice to have
- Experience in photobooks, print-on-demand or design tools
- Image processing work (crop, resize, format conversion)
- Open-source contributions in the React/Canvas ecosystem
- E-commerce platform development
- Payment integrations (Stripe, PayPal)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Kubernetes)
- CMYK color space management
- PDF generation (LaTeX, Puppeteer, PDF-lib or similar)
- Print specifications (bleed, trim boxes, ICC profiles)
- Command-line tools: ImageMagick, Ghostscript
Full description
Compensation: $20k – $30k • No equity
*Please DO NOT contact us via email or any other platform when applying to this role, we would like to keep communication on Wellfound. All candidates on Wellfound will be prioritised. *
About Pixory
Pixory is a fast-growing e-commerce platform for personalized photobooks. We’re building a proprietary CMS to scale globally, and we’re growing our engineering team with people who can work across the full stack, from pixel-perfect frontends to production-grade infrastructure.
Your Mission
Help build and scale our e-commerce platform. You’ll work across React frontends, Node.js APIs and AWS infrastructure, shipping features that serve hundreds of thousands of users. Our senior engineers will support you on the bigger architecture decisions. The role starts in Q1 2027.
Tech StackFront end
React 18+ with TypeScript
Next.js 14+ (SSR/SSG)
Tailwind CSS, responsive design
Canvas libraries: Konva.js, Fabric.js or react-konva
State management: Zustand, Redux Toolkit or Jotai
Performance: Web Workers, OffscreenCanvas, lazy loading
Unit tests: Jest
Back end
Node.js 18+ (Fastify/Express)
PostgreSQL with Prisma/TypeORM, indexing
Redis (caching, queues)
BullMQ for job processing
Sharp.js for image processing
REST API design and implementation
Infrastructure & DevOps
AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ElastiCache, Autoscaling, DB Cluster (Master/Slave)
Docker containerization
CI/CD: GitHub Actions
Monitoring: CloudWatch, Grafana
Required Experience
3 to 5 years of full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript
2+ years of React in production environments
2+ years of Node.js backend in production
Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, RDS, S3 minimum)
Some Docker and CI/CD pipeline experience
PostgreSQL or a similar SQL database
REST API design and implementation
A solid grasp of DevOps basics and a wish to grow into architecture decisions
Must-Haves
React and TypeScript production experience
Node.js backend experience on live production apps
Hands-on AWS experience, not just certifications
A track record of shipping and deploying real features to production
A proactive problem-solver who owns their work and knows when to ask for input