Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zovian is looking for a full-stack web engineer to join their team and help build out an early-stage web platform. This part-time, paid contract role involves collaborating with the lead engineer to develop features and systems while maintaining effective communication and adaptability throughout the development process.

Responsibilities

• Building new backend services and endpoints to support upcoming platform features
• Implementing frontend components and views for new features, integrating cleanly with existing APIs
• Developing internal or admin-facing tooling used to:
• Create and manage platform content
• Operate events or workflows
• Review, update, and publish results
• Iterating on existing user flows to improve UX, performance, and clarity
• Taking a feature from spec to shipped, including basic testing, with minimal day-to-day oversight
• Writing readable code that follows our existing conventions and passes review
• Structuring new code so it can be extended later without requiring a full rewrite
• Syncing regularly with our lead engineer on priorities, technical decisions, and how new work fits into the existing system
• Communicating blockers or scope concerns proactively

Skills

• Friendly, positive, and easy to work with day to day
• Receptive to feedback, with the flexibility to iterate or change course as priorities shift
• Experience building full-stack web applications
• Ability to implement a system end-to-end with minimal oversight
• Comfort working from high-level goals rather than detailed specifications
• Experience building and deploying backend services in cloud-native or serverless production environments
• Experience designing data models for production web applications
• Experience building user-facing web application interfaces that integrate cleanly with backend APIs
• Comfort implementing routing, data fetching, and state management in modern web applications
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Available for regular check-ins during Pacific Time (PT) working hours
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Familiarity with AWS services
• Experience building early-stage platforms or internal tools
• Experience making architectural or system-level decisions
• Experience building dynamic dashboards, marketplaces, or community-driven products
• Interest in games, game communities, and creator platforms

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