Full Stack Engineer (Backend Focus)
Commons· Remote (Oakland, California, USA)
Posted October 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Pay
- Not disclosed
- Education
- Not specified
- Location
- Remote (Oakland, California, USA)
- Work mode
- Remote
- Job type
- Full-time
About this role
Commons helps people align spending with values through a personal finance app that tracks impact and offsets carbon, plus carbon advisory services. The Full Stack Engineer leads backend and platform work across the stack while shipping features end-to-end.
What you will do
- Build features end to end from database to UI and review PRs
- Design and evolve core data models and review migrations
- Own third-party integrations and make build-vs-buy calls
- Run CI/CD, monitoring and infrastructure
- Lead outages and escalations especially infrastructure-related
- Keep dependencies updated and simplify the stack
- Work with data team on privacy and security
- Help build AI coding tools and workflows team-wide
What the employer expects
- 5+ years building production software across the stack with most depth on backend
- Think in capabilities and build foundations to iterate on
- Used to shipping features end-to-end yourself
- Built backend systems from the ground up and owned production at a startup
- Set up CI, monitoring and been paged
- Know Postgres well including schema design and live migrations
- Built and maintained third-party integrations
- Take data security and privacy seriously
- Deeply embedded in AI and agentic coding tools
- Can explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical people
- Love tackling new problems; not looking to manage or be managed
Skills
- Node
- Express
- Postgres
- React Native
- GitHub Actions
- CircleCI
- New Relic
- Sentry
- Render
- Redis
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