Staff Full-Stack Engineer at Capvision

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About True North Insights</span></strong></span></p> <p>True North Insights is a global expert network that connects organizations with subject matter experts who provide critical insights to inform strategic decision-making.</p> <p>We believe the right knowledge can move the world forward. Since day one, that belief has driven everything we do.&nbsp;We exist to break through complexity, giving global investors and business leaders frictionless access to the insights that matter most — insights that fuel confident decisions, unlock opportunity, and power successful careers.</p> <p>Founded in 2019 in New York City, our firm has skyrocketed from launch to becoming #7 in North America and #10 globally in just five years — and we’re just getting started. As we expand into Europe and beyond, there’s never been a better time to join our high-growth, global team.</p> <hr> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><p>Looking for excellence and something to be proud of? Look no further. Step into a high-energy, high-intensity, KPI-driven role with unlimited growth.</p> <ul> <li><strong>This job is a night shift fixed schedule supporting our NYC office</strong></li> <li><strong>Hybrid work environment, 3 days on-site in Makati. 5 Days on-site are required during the initial training period. WFH is permissible up to 2 days per week in non-training periods.</strong></li> </ul> <h2><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">About the Role</span></h2> <p>We are looking for a highly experienced, hands-on full-stack engineer to become a foundational member of our engineering team.</p> <p>You will join and help lead a team with end-to-end ownership of a web-based database application at the center of our interactions with experts and clients. Your work will span technical design, backend and database development, third-party API integration, front-end delivery, deployment, and production support.</p> <p>This is a high-autonomy role for an engineer who enjoys working close to the business. You will partner directly with product, operations, and other frontline stakeholders to review and solve high-priority software problems, evaluate opportunities based on return on investment, and deliver practical software that improves how our teams operate.</p> <p>You will also help establish the technical practices and operating standards for a growing engineering organization. Over the following six months, you will participate in interviewing, hiring, and mentoring additional engineers joining the team.</p> <h2>What You’ll Do</h2> <ul type="disc"> <li>Take full ownership of “the how” regarding major product features, from architectural approach and technical design through implementation, quality assurance, deployment, monitoring, and production support.</li> <li>Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Java and Spring.</li> <li>Maintain and evolve our database architecture, data models, and queries to support performance, reliability, and future scale.</li> <li>Build and harden front-end features to production quality, collaborating with product and using AI-assisted design and development tools where appropriate.</li> <li>Work directly with product, operations, and front-line team members to understand workflows, identify inefficiencies, and design effective software solutions.</li> <li>Develop a strong understanding of our fast-moving business and help prioritize technical investments based on customer impact, operational value, and ROI.</li> <li>Use AI-assisted coding tools, such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar platforms, as a regular part of your development workflow while maintaining high standards for testing, review, security, and maintainability.</li> <li>Deploy, monitor, and support applications running on AWS, including cloud maintenance and security in accordance with ISO 27001 and 27701 frameworks, contributing to the reliability and operational maturity of our production environment.</li> <li>Participate in a shared production-support rotation during New York business hours, initially in partnership with our New York-based engineer.</li> <li>Help design the incident-response, monitoring, documentation, and on-call practices that the growing engineering team will use.</li> <li>Contribute to technical architecture, engineering standards, development processes, and decisions about when to improve existing systems versus introduce new technologies.</li> <li>Participate in interviewing and selecting backend, frontend, and platform engineers as the team grows.</li> <li>Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and thoughtful code and design reviews to other engineers.</li> </ul> <h2>What We’re Looking For</h2> <ul type="disc"> <li>Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required. A degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field is preferred but not required.</li> <li>Typically 8 or more years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence of Staff-level technical ownership and impact.</li> <li>Deep professional experience with backend development, including ownership of database-driven web applications in production.</li> <li>Strong proficiency in Java and hands-on experience with Spring or Spring Boot.</li> <li>Strong experience with relational database design, data modeling, performance optimization, and production database management.</li> <li>Advanced SQL skills, including the ability to write and optimize queries used for application functionality, troubleshooting, reporting, and business intelligence.</li> <li>Professional experience contributing to front-end web applications and the ability to deliver production-quality user-facing features.</li> <li>Experience deploying, operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting production applications on AWS.</li> <li>Demonstrated ownership of production systems throughout their lifecycle, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted coding tools, such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar tools, as part of a regular software-development workflow.</li> <li>Experience implementing technical controls in environments subject to GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or comparable security and privacy requirements.</li> <li>Strong product and business judgment, including the ability to translate operational problems into appropriately scoped technical solutions.</li> <li>Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the confidence to work directly with engineers, product, operations, and business stakeholders.</li> <li>Experience working with a high degree of autonomy, making sound technical decisions, and communicating tradeoffs clearly.</li> <li>Ability to maintain regular working-hour overlap with U.S. Eastern time for real-time collaboration and production support.</li> <li>Strong accountability, follow-through, and time-management skills in a fast-moving environment.</li> </ul> <h2>Preferred Qualifications</h2> <p>The following experience would be valuable, but we do not expect every candidate to have all of it:</p> <ul> <li>Strong experience with Vue.js or another modern JavaScript front-end framework.</li> <li>Experience with Kotlin.</li> <li>Experience with Python.</li> <li>Experience integrating generative AI models or AI-powered capabilities into production applications.</li> <li>Experience building AI-enabled CRM, workflow, search, or knowledge-management features.</li> <li>Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, cloud security, or other platform-engineering practices.</li> <li>Experience working effectively across time zones in a distributed or remote-first engineering organization.</li> <li>Previous experience interviewing, hiring, mentoring, or providing technical leadership to other engineers.</li> <li>Relevant and current AWS, security, database, or software architecture certifications.</li> </ul> <h2>What Success Looks Like</h2> <p>Within your first several months, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Build a strong understanding of the application, its architecture, and the business workflows it supports.</li> <li>Take ownership of meaningful product features across the backend, database, and front end.</li> <li>Establish trusted working relationships with our New York-based engineer and Product and Operations stakeholders.</li> <li>Improve the reliability, maintainability, monitoring, and documentation of the production system.</li> <li>Help establish practical production support and incident-response practices.</li> <li>Use AI-assisted development tools effectively while maintaining clear accountability for code quality and system behavior.</li> <li>Contribute to the hiring and onboarding of the engineers who will form the next stage of the team.</li> <li>Help create a technical foundation that allows the engineering organization to grow without losing speed, quality, or connection to the business.</li> </ul> <h2>Why True North Insights</h2> <p>True North Insights offers a dynamic, high-performance culture where ambitious professionals grow quickly and own meaningful work from day one.</p> <ul> <li>Join the Manila office of one of the world’s fastest-growing expert networks.</li> <li>You will work alongside our HQ in NYC. Be part of a fun, friendly, and family-oriented culture.</li> <li>Diverse project exposure.</li> <li>Compensation: Gross monthly base salary of PHP 160,000-PHP 250,000 (inclusive of night differentials), depending on relevant experience, technical depth, leadership experience, and demonstrated alignment with the scope of the role.</li> <li>Discretionary annual performance bonus of up to 8% of annual base salary.</li> <li>Benefits: Day 1 HMO for the employee, life insurance, vacation leave, US holiday leave, paid sick leave, 13th month, and government/social benefits.</li> <li>Monthly transportation allowance of PHP 1,200</li> <li>Perks: Free snacks, paid trainings, Monday breakfast, and regular team events.</li> </ul> <p>At True North Insights, growth is earned—not given. You’ll be challenged, supported, and trusted to lead.</p>