Full Stack Engineer
Percona is looking for a flexible and efficient Full Stack Software Engineer to join its Global Advanced Services team. You will work on database management and related solutions, doing both new feature development and bug fixing in close collaboration with our services teams.
You will work from your home office, using online tools and resources to contribute to a fast-moving and high-performing development environment for Percona and its customers.
Access to a reliable high-speed internet connection is required. Flexible work hours.
What You Will Do:
Design, code, implement, and document improvements to a high standard
Design and develop robust, responsive web applications using React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems
Build and maintain backend services that integrate with database systems and operational tooling
Translate UI/UX design wireframes into high-quality code
Create and submit patches for review, perform periodic source code merges
Perform root cause analysis of customer-impacting defects to provide the optimal solution
Develop test cases for continuous integration deployment
Participate in code and design reviews
Diagnose and fix defects
Create documentation about your work that is consumable and can be refined by our documentation team
Share your knowledge by attending and speaking at related conferences and writing blog posts about your work, participating in our public forums
Provide Support to our Services Teams
Your Experience:
Minimum 2 years of hands-on, production experience as a full stack engineer, including - related tools / build processes (e.g. pip, make/Jenkins, containers) in Linux environments.
Self-motivated with a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
Experience building and operating web services for production users
Experience with Python web frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django
Proficiency in React and JavaScript (ES6+)
Experience with MUI (Material-UI), HTML5, CSS3, and pre-processors (LESS/SASS)
Understanding of React workflows (Hooks, Context API, or Redux)
Experience with modern build pipelines (Vite or Webpack)
UI engineering best practices: accessibility, responsive design, and performance
UX theory and practice
Familiarity with relational databases and data modeling concepts
Distributed system development and/or database-related development
Working autonomously in a globally distributed organization
Collaborating with open-source communities and colleagues via mailing lists, IRC, Slack, etc.
Using collaboration/tracking tools like Jira/Notion
Ability to speak, listen, and write effectively in fluent English
Quick learner & great team player
What Will Make You Stand Out:
Experience with data visualization or charting libraries (d3, Highcharts, Rickshaw, etc.)
Experience working with OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
Experience with Docker
Experience building distributed web apps
Experience migrating server-side templates to Single Page Applications
Experience with Micro Frontend architecture
Database management knowledge
Proven success working in a distributed environment
Additional programming languages such as Go or Rust
Shell scripting
Automation in Linux environments
Test Driven Development and practical experience with CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing)
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Why Percona?
At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.
Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.
If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!
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