Senior Developer (Full-stack) - Remote
About Rad Hires
Rad Hires connects high-performing talent with ambitious teams that move fast and build things that matter. We partner with lean, client-driven organizations to find the kind of people who own outcomes, raise the bar, and make a real difference — not just fill a seat.
About the Role
Our client is a global design company, creating brands, products, and experiences that launch ventures and reshape industries. Overall, a creative, close-knit agency that partners with top brands.
Job Description
As a Senior Full Stack Developer, you will play a key role in delivering end-to-end solutions across a range of projects. Building high quality user experiences while engineering the systems, APIs and integrations that make them robust, scalable and secure.
You'll work across both front-end and back-end systems, taking ownership of technical delivery from initial discovery through to deployment. You'll collaborate closely with designers, project managers, and clients to translate requirements into scalable, maintainable, and well-structured technical solutions.
You bring strong full-stack fundamentals and confidence with modern development workflows, with clean coding practices and a sharp eye for code quality and long-term maintainability.
This role requires clear, proactive communication and the ability to operate comfortably in ambiguous, fast-moving project environments.
You have a methodical approach to problem solving and a genuine passion for technology and the evolving development landscape.
RESPONSIBILITIES
HANDS ON DEVELOPMENT — Full Stack Development
- Technical ownership of a project from discovery through to implementation
- Collaborate with designers and project managers to translate requirements into technical implementations.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code to create responsive and accessible user front-end interfaces.
- Build and maintain scalable back-end solutions
- Integrate with third-party services and APIs
- Troubleshoot complex issues across the technical stack and propose practical, effective solutions
- Deployment and Simple DevOps tasks as required
TECHNICAL STANDARDS
- Collaborate with designers to ensure creative concepts are executed to spec. With a sharp eye for design fidelity, you care about maintaining visual consistency, polish and motion detail.
- Ensure a high level of technical quality is maintained across projects from discovery to launch.
- Follow best practices consistently across accessibility, security and performance.
TECHNICAL PLANNING
- Liaise directly with clients and other stakeholders as the primary technical contact on a project, to understand their requirements
- Conduct thoughtful research and creative problem solving of technical challenges
- Support architectural decisions by providing input on frameworks, tools, and approaches
- Provide accurate technical estimates, working closely with project managers to develop a detailed delivery plan that accounts for technical dependencies and mitigates risk
- Clear, confident and articulate presentation of appropriate solutions to clients
PASSION & CULTURE
- Excite and engage those around you to bring about the best outcome
- Regularly share best technology practices and inspiration
- Excited by and keen to learn about innovative technologies, such as AI
- Suggest ideas, tools and systems to maximize the effectiveness of our processes and work
- Open to speaking at industry events on panels and raising the profile of Athlon in the public domain
Your experience:
- 6+ years of full-stack development experience, with solid fundamentals across front end and back end
We expect you to be knowledgeable in:
- Frontend languages (e.g. HTML, CSS/SCSS/Tailwind, JavaScript/TypeScript, frameworks like React and Next)
- Backend languages (Node.js or PHP).
- Strong experience in JavaScript/Next.js headless CMS ecosystems, with the ability and willingness to work across both. Exposure to both is highly desirable.
- API Integration (REST, GraphQL)
- GIT workflows, CI/CD automation
- Cloud services (eg. AWS, GCP or Azure)
- Solid understanding of software architecture and system design principles
It is desirable to have:
- WordPress (PHP) experience
- Experience working within a fast-paced agency or client-facing environment, with the ability to work across multiple projects if required
- Evidence of architectural / infrastructure planning with clients and provide ability to lead technical direction
- Full stack / tech agnostic approach - able to work across / adapt to new technologies
Nice to have:
- Animation for web (eg. CSS animations, GSAP, Framer, Motion.js, Lottie etc.).
- Experience leveraging AI tools and structured specs to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality eg.
- Claude (claude.ai / Claude Code), Cursor, GitHub Copilot or similar LLM-assisted development environments
- Spec-driven development — writing structured prompts, technical specs and implementation plan that guide AI-assisted workflows effectively
- Vibe coding — comfortable using AI to rapidly prototype, iterate and explore solutions in fast-moving creative or technical contexts (prototyping and exploration; production code is always critically reviewed)
- Experience directing / coaching more junior developers
