Staff Node.js Software Engineer

We are

Wizeline, a global AI-native technology solutions provider, develops cutting-edge, AI-powered digital products and platforms. We partner with clients to leverage data and AI, accelerating market entry and driving business transformation. As a global community of innovators, we foster a culture of growth, collaboration, and impact.

With the right people and the right ideas, there’s no limit to what we can achieve

Are you a fit?

Sounds awesome, right? Now, let’s make sure you’re a good fit for the role:

Key Responsibilities

- Provide architectural guidance on the transition of business-critical functionality from legacy PHP systems to a modern, scalable technology stack.

- Evaluate technical trade-offs, define clear API boundaries, and establish pragmatic migration strategies that balance modernization with business continuity.

- Remain deeply hands-on with code , contributing directly to development while providing Staff-level technical leadership and architectural direction.

- Resolve critical bugs, improve system reliability, and safely refactor business-critical workflows within complex legacy environments.

- Deep-dive into undocumented business logic, including contracts, commissions, rights, and payments, and translate it into modular, maintainable modern architecture.

- Drive the incremental decoupling of legacy systems using modern backend and frontend patterns, including APIs, microservices/BFF architectures, Next.js, and Node.js .

- Design and guide modern API strategies using technologies and patterns such as GraphQL, REST, and API Gateways .

- Leverage AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot as an integral part of daily engineering workflows to accelerate development, debugging, refactoring, and technical analysis.

- Identify opportunities to use AI to increase engineering velocity, improve developer workflows, and reduce repetitive development effort.

- Partner closely with engineers, technical leaders, and senior business stakeholders to clarify requirements, challenge assumptions, and make sound architectural decisions.

- Act as a trusted technical advisor, communicating migration pathways, architectural trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Help establish engineering standards and modern development practices while working collaboratively and hands-on alongside the broader engineering team.

- Support the onboarding and mentoring of additional engineers as the workstream and team continue to grow.

Must-have Skills

- Staff or Lead-level software engineering experience , with the ability to operate independently, make sound architectural decisions, and lead technical direction without constant oversight.

- Strong hands-on experience working with legacy PHP , including environments such as Symfony and native PHP , with the ability to navigate, debug, stabilize, and safely refactor complex monolithic applications.

- Strong full-stack engineering background with practical knowledge of modern frontend and backend development.

- Functional proficiency with Next.js, Node.js, Symfony, and modern API architectures .

- Experience designing, consuming, or evolving APIs using technologies and patterns such as GraphQL, REST, and API Gateways .

- Demonstrated experience modernizing or migrating legacy systems while maintaining business continuity and minimizing unnecessary complexity.

- Ability to understand and extract complex or undocumented business logic and translate it into modular, maintainable technical solutions.

- Strong architectural judgment, including the ability to evaluate trade-offs, define system boundaries, and recommend pragmatic migration strategies.

- AI-Assisted Engineering Fluency: Active, hands-on proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot . AI tools should be an integral part of your daily development workflow for coding, debugging, refactoring, research, and technical problem-solving.

- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, particularly within complex, business-critical systems.

- Ability to balance architectural thinking with daily hands-on execution and code contribution.

- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders.

- Pragmatic and collaborative working style, with a willingness to work directly alongside engineers rather than operating exclusively at an architectural or strategic level.

Nice-to-have

- Experience working with financial, royalty, accounting, or payment-related systems , particularly workflows involving contracts, rights, commissions, payments, or multi-currency transactions.

- Familiarity with Python or .NET , particularly within broader multi-stack enterprise environments.

- Experience modernizing large-scale legacy applications through incremental migration or decoupling strategies.

- Experience designing or implementing microservices, Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) patterns, or API-driven architectures .

- Experience working within complex enterprise environments involving multiple technology stacks and interconnected systems.

- Experience mentoring engineers, establishing development practices, and helping growing engineering teams scale effectively.

- Experience partnering directly with senior technical and business stakeholders on high-visibility transformation initiatives.

- Familiarity with talent, entertainment, agency management, rights management, or similar domain-specific platforms.

What Success Looks Like

- Business and marketing objectives are consistently translated into clear, actionable campaign briefs.

- Creative and content partners receive the context, decisions, and feedback needed to deliver strong work.

- Campaigns progress with clear ownership, fewer missed follow-ups, and fewer avoidable delays.

- Content and creative work are constructively challenged when they do not align with the brief, audience need, or intended campaign outcome.

- Marketing leadership can focus on strategy and final approvals rather than day-to-day task management.

- Campaign insights and learnings are captured and applied to improve future briefs, workflows, and ways of working.

- The Coordinator develops increasing fluency in ETF products, financial-advisor audiences, category narratives, and campaign performance.

What Success Looks Like

- Legacy business logic is progressively understood, documented, stabilized, and transitioned toward a modern architecture without disrupting critical business operations.

- Clear and pragmatic migration pathways are established between legacy PHP applications and the target technology stack.

- Critical bugs and reliability issues are resolved quickly, while high-risk areas of the legacy application are safely refactored.

- API boundaries and integration patterns are clearly defined, enabling incremental decoupling rather than unnecessary large-scale rewrites.

- Engineering decisions appropriately balance speed, maintainability, technical risk, and business priorities.

- AI-assisted development becomes an integral part of daily engineering workflows, contributing to faster coding, debugging, refactoring, and technical analysis.

- Senior stakeholders have clear visibility into architectural trade-offs, migration risks, dependencies, and recommended next steps.

- The Staff Engineer remains an active technical contributor while providing the architectural guidance and technical leadership expected at Staff level.

- Engineering practices, documentation, and knowledge transfer improve as the workstream grows and additional team members are onboarded.

What we offer

- A High-Impact Environment.

- Commitment to Professional Development.

- Flexible and Collaborative Culture.

- Global Opportunities.

- Vibrant Community.

- Total Rewards.

*Specific benefits are determined by the employment type and location.

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