Lead Full-Stack Engineer

Core responsibilities:

• Partner with Product to improve platform reliability and reduce support load by addressing peak-usage bottlenecks and reworking enrollment, authentication, rostering, and licensing infrastructure
• Own end-to-end system architecture and technical roadmap for CDI's product suite: application, data flows, integrations, and infrastructure
• Contribute hands-on to front-end and back-end code to unblock delivery, lead critical implementations, and resolve production issues
• Drive and operate CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability/monitoring, and alerting

This role translates CDI's evidence-based curricula into reliable, scalable digital experiences that equip the next generation of Americans with skills to communicate and collaborate across lines of difference, helping create campus cultures of inquiry and dialogue.

Required qualifications:

• 8+ years building full-stack web apps with clear ownership of production systems and architecture
• 2+ years of proven tech-lead experience (running a small squad, owning delivery, mentoring engineers)
• Strong front-end and back-end skills (React + TypeScript preferred; Node.js, Python, or Go acceptable)
• Production cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Pulumi), automated deployments, and operational runbooks

No compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the job description.

The Constructive Dialogue Institute (CDI) is a non-partisan non-profit dedicated to equipping the next generation of Americans with the skills to communicate and collaborate across lines of difference, partnering with colleges and universities nationwide to create campus cultures of inquiry and dialogue.