Staff Node.js Software Engineer

We are Wizeline, a global AI-native technology solutions provider, develops cutting-edge, AI-powered digital products and platforms. We partner with clients to leverage data and AI, accelerating market entry and driving business transformation. As a global community of innovators, we foster a culture of growth, collaboration, and impact. With the right people and the right ideas, there’s no limit to what we can achieve Are you a fit? Sounds awesome, right? Now, let’s make sure you’re a good fit for the role: Key Responsibilities - Provide architectural guidance on the transition of business-critical functionality from legacy PHP systems to a modern, scalable technology stack. - Evaluate technical trade-offs, define clear API boundaries, and establish pragmatic migration strategies that balance modernization with business continuity. - Remain deeply hands-on with code , contributing directly to development while providing Staff-level technical leadership and architectural direction. - Resolve critical bugs, improve system reliability, and safely refactor business-critical workflows within complex legacy environments. - Deep-dive into undocumented business logic, including contracts, commissions, rights, and payments, and translate it into modular, maintainable modern architecture. - Drive the incremental decoupling of legacy systems using modern backend and frontend patterns, including APIs, microservices/BFF architectures, Next.js, and Node.js . - Design and guide modern API strategies using technologies and patterns such as GraphQL, REST, and API Gateways . - Leverage AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot as an integral part of daily engineering workflows to accelerate development, debugging, refactoring, and technical analysis. - Identify opportunities to use AI to increase engineering velocity, improve developer workflows, and reduce repetitive development effort. - Partner closely with engineers, technical leaders, and senior business stakeholders to clarify requirements, challenge assumptions, and make sound architectural decisions. - Act as a trusted technical advisor, communicating migration pathways, architectural trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Help establish engineering standards and modern development practices while working collaboratively and hands-on alongside the broader engineering team. - Support the onboarding and mentoring of additional engineers as the workstream and team continue to grow. Must-have Skills - Staff or Lead-level software engineering experience , with the ability to operate independently, make sound architectural decisions, and lead technical direction without constant oversight. - Strong hands-on experience working with legacy PHP , including environments such as Symfony and native PHP , with the ability to navigate, debug, stabilize, and safely refactor complex monolithic applications. - Strong full-stack engineering background with practical knowledge of modern frontend and backend development. - Functional proficiency with Next.js, Node.js, Symfony, and modern API architectures . - Experience designing, consuming, or evolving APIs using technologies and patterns such as GraphQL, REST, and API Gateways . - Demonstrated experience modernizing or migrating legacy systems while maintaining business continuity and minimizing unnecessary complexity. - Ability to understand and extract complex or undocumented business logic and translate it into modular, maintainable technical solutions. - Strong architectural judgment, including the ability to evaluate trade-offs, define system boundaries, and recommend pragmatic migration strategies. - AI-Assisted Engineering Fluency: Active, hands-on proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot . AI tools should be an integral part of your daily development workflow for coding, debugging, refactoring, research, and technical problem-solving. - Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, particularly within complex, business-critical systems. - Ability to balance architectural thinking with daily hands-on execution and code contribution. - Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders. - Pragmatic and collaborative working style, with a willingness to work directly alongside engineers rather than operating exclusively at an architectural or strategic level. Nice-to-have - Experience working with financial, royalty, accounting, or payment-related systems , particularly workflows involving contracts, rights, commissions, payments, or multi-currency transactions. - Familiarity with Python or .NET , particularly within broader multi-stack enterprise environments. - Experience modernizing large-scale legacy applications through incremental migration or decoupling strategies. - Experience designing or implementing microservices, Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) patterns, or API-driven architectures . - Experience working within complex enterprise environments involving multiple technology stacks and interconnected systems. - Experience mentoring engineers, establishing development practices, and helping growing engineering teams scale effectively. - Experience partnering directly with senior technical and business stakeholders on high-visibility transformation initiatives. - Familiarity with talent, entertainment, agency management, rights management, or similar domain-specific platforms. What Success Looks Like - Business and marketing objectives are consistently translated into clear, actionable campaign briefs. - Creative and content partners receive the context, decisions, and feedback needed to deliver strong work. - Campaigns progress with clear ownership, fewer missed follow-ups, and fewer avoidable delays. - Content and creative work are constructively challenged when they do not align with the brief, audience need, or intended campaign outcome. - Marketing leadership can focus on strategy and final approvals rather than day-to-day task management. - Campaign insights and learnings are captured and applied to improve future briefs, workflows, and ways of working. - The Coordinator develops increasing fluency in ETF products, financial-advisor audiences, category narratives, and campaign performance. What Success Looks Like - Legacy business logic is progressively understood, documented, stabilized, and transitioned toward a modern architecture without disrupting critical business operations. - Clear and pragmatic migration pathways are established between legacy PHP applications and the target technology stack. - Critical bugs and reliability issues are resolved quickly, while high-risk areas of the legacy application are safely refactored. - API boundaries and integration patterns are clearly defined, enabling incremental decoupling rather than unnecessary large-scale rewrites. - Engineering decisions appropriately balance speed, maintainability, technical risk, and business priorities. - AI-assisted development becomes an integral part of daily engineering workflows, contributing to faster coding, debugging, refactoring, and technical analysis. - Senior stakeholders have clear visibility into architectural trade-offs, migration risks, dependencies, and recommended next steps. - The Staff Engineer remains an active technical contributor while providing the architectural guidance and technical leadership expected at Staff level. - Engineering practices, documentation, and knowledge transfer improve as the workstream grows and additional team members are onboarded. What we offer - A High-Impact Environment. - Commitment to Professional Development. - Flexible and Collaborative Culture. - Global Opportunities. - Vibrant Community. - Total Rewards. *Specific benefits are determined by the employment type and location. Find out more about our culture here