8+ years building full-stack products, including time as the senior person on the work
Deep Node.js and TypeScript experience across the full-stack, with production services you designed and still stand behind
Deep understanding of REST API design and microservices
Strong relational database skills, Postgres or MySQL: schema design, indexing, query tuning, transactions, and what actually happens under load. Comfort with non relational stores such as Redis or MongoDB, and with caching and invalidation
Experience with queues and streaming, whether Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, BullMQ, or similar, including the failure modes that come with them: ordering, duplicates, replay, and consumer lag
Front- end skill that matches the environment: our team use these screens during a rush, on a terminal or a tablet, with no time to think and no tolerance for a bad interaction. We use Vue. Experience with React or Angular is fine, as long as it includes component architecture, state management, and progressive web apps
Real time interfaces built on websockets, ideally socket.io. Order flow and kitchen display depend on it
Excellent debugging. You can take an unfamiliar production failure and reason your way to root cause instead of guessing
Parts of the existing platform are PHP
AI first. You use AI tooling as a core part of how you engineer: mapping an unfamiliar codebase in hours instead of weeks, pressure testing your own designs, moving faster without lowering the bar
You apply it across the whole lifecycle: shaping a design before any code exists, writing and refactoring, reviewing your own work, as well as automated PR reviews
You jump in. Handed a large, complex, unfamiliar repository, your instinct is to open it and start reading. Complexity and sensitivity are reasons to be careful, not reasons to wait for someone else
You build services that stay maintainable. Clear boundaries, readable code, tests that earn their keep, observability that makes production legible. The next engineer should be able to operate what you built without a tour guide
You think about the person on the other side. During a rush, a confusing screen or one extra tap is not a cosmetic problem. It is a slower line and a worse night for the staff
You go the extra mile. You follow a problem to its actual end, including the parts nobody assigned to you. You take pride in the work and you care how it lands for the merchant on the other side of the screen