The Senior Full Stack Engineer - NBA joins the Platform Quality and Reliability team to own the operational health of the NBA platform. As a hands-on individual contributor, you will ensure the platform scales, stays up, and fails gracefully by taking over from delivery pods to manage production readiness. Key responsibilities include writing production code, building automated testing infrastructure across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers, and owning the logging, alerting, and monitoring stack. You will enforce error handling patterns and manage contractor resources while coordinating across pods. The role requires proficiency in a polyglot stack including Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript. You will solve technical challenges regarding system resilience, data throughput, and distributed system failures within a regulated environment requiring strict audit trails.
What does a Full Stack Engineer earn in Massachusetts?
Median $211200 from 41 postings across 8 companies.
Own the operational health, uptime, and performance of the NBA platform services.
Write and ship production code as a significant individual contributor every sprint.
Build and maintain automated testing infrastructure across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers.
Manage the platform's logging, alerting, and monitoring stack to ensure full production visibility.
Design and enforce systematic error handling and failure management patterns across distributed systems.
Evaluate platform components under load to ensure reliable scaling as data throughput grows.
Define and enforce quality gates that delivery pods must meet before handing off new features.
Manage contractor resources by setting expectations, reviewing work, and holding the team to standards.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
5+ years of experience designing, developing, and testing of software applications and/or infrastructure.
4+ years of full stack software engineering experience with 1-2 years focused on platform reliability, software quality, or site reliability engineering.
Hands-on experience building and owning testing infrastructure including automated test suites, integration testing, load testing, and end-to-end coverage.
Strong understanding of observability practices including structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, and alerting.
Experience designing and enforcing error handling and failure management patterns across distributed systems.
Proven ability to lead a small team or pod through delivery and manage contractor resources.
Comfortable working across a polyglot stack including Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript.