Van Hyde International

Full-stack Engineer

• Split time approximately 50% writing production code and 50% on planning, technical direction, and team development
• Lead a small fullstack engineering team within a distributed SaaS environment
• Design and ship fullstack features end-to-end across Java services and APIs, PostgreSQL data schemas, and React UI
• Lead technical design for distributed systems, including microservices and event-driven architectures with Kafka or similar technologies
• Write design documents and evaluate technical tradeoffs
• Modernize legacy code and lead monolith-to-microservices migrations
• Use AI coding tools daily and support opinions with concrete examples
• Pilot and standardize AI and agentic workflows for code, review, QA, and documentation with guardrails and measurable results
• Raise engineering quality through code reviews, pairing, and personal pull requests
• Coach engineers through clear expectations, direct feedback, and one-to-one meetings
• Run planning, prioritization, and estimation against the roadmap
• Turn ambiguous requirements into clear plans
• Improve CI/CD, testing, and observability practices across Azure, AWS, or GCP

Engineering Team Lead – Java, React