Senior Fullstack Developer

👋 About Boundless Life

Boundless Life is redefining the way families live, work, and learn by empowering them to embrace a nomadic lifestyle that fosters deeper connections and personal growth. We provide family-friendly accommodations, an innovative education system that travels with you, and vibrant communities of like-minded individuals. Our mission is to create immersive "live abroad" experiences that balance professional commitments with enriching personal development.

Since our founding in 2021, we've rapidly expanded to eight locations across Europe, Asia, and soon Latin America, bringing together over 140 team members from diverse backgrounds. Our growth reflects our commitment to transforming the experience economy and making a meaningful impact on how families integrate work, education, and exploration into their lives.At Boundless Life, we believe in the power of community and the importance of a holistic approach to education. Our programs are designed to inspire curiosity, build resilience, and nurture a global perspective, preparing children for an ever-changing future.

Join us in pioneering a new way of living that harmoniously blends work, learning, and adventure, enabling families to thrive in a connected and dynamic world.

🙌 The role

As a Senior Full Stack Developer at Boundless Life, your mission is to build the technology that powers a seamless experience for families living, learning and exploring the world.

You will play a key role in developing and scaling our digital ecosystem, from our admissions and booking platforms to our family community app and internal operational tools.

We’re looking for a hands-on engineer who combines strong technical expertise with a product mindset, takes ownership of complex challenges and cares deeply about the quality, reliability and maintainability of what they build.

You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders to turn complex operational needs into intuitive, scalable solutions that create real value for families and our teams.

A key part of the role will be balancing speed of delivery with engineering excellence — helping us move fast without compromising code quality, system reliability or long-term scalability.

We’re also looking for someone who embraces AI-powered development, modern engineering practices and continuous improvement to help us build smarter and more efficiently.

🎯 Key responsibilities will include:

1. Full Stack Product Development

• Design, develop and maintain scalable applications across our customer-facing platforms and internal operational systems.
• Own features end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment and production monitoring.
• Build intuitive, responsive and performant user interfaces that deliver a premium customer experience.
• Develop reliable backend services, APIs, integrations and data models that support complex business workflows.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to translate business requirements into practical, elegant technical solutions.
• Proactively identify opportunities to simplify functionality, improve user experiences and reduce technical complexity.

2. Software Architecture & Engineering Excellence

• Contribute to architectural decisions that ensure our technology remains scalable, secure and maintainable as Boundless grows.
• Write clean, modular, well-tested and reusable code, following modern software engineering principles.
• Identify and eliminate technical debt, duplicated logic, performance bottlenecks and fragile implementations.
• Champion engineering best practices, including separation of concerns, automated testing, documentation and code reviews.
• Design robust workflows that account for edge cases, failures, data consistency and transactional integrity.
• Ensure critical business operations, particularly payments, bookings and customer data, are implemented with strong reliability and error-handling standards.
• Participate in technical design discussions and challenge approaches that introduce unnecessary complexity or long-term maintenance risks.

3. Platform Reliability, Security & Performance

• Take ownership of the stability, performance and reliability of the systems you develop.
• Implement appropriate monitoring, logging and error-handling mechanisms to identify and resolve issues proactively.
• Investigate production incidents, identify root causes and implement sustainable fixes rather than temporary workarounds.
• Optimize database queries, API performance and application responsiveness.
• Apply security best practices across authentication, authorization, data protection and third-party integrations.
• Build resilient integrations with external services, including payment providers, communication platforms and other business-critical systems.
• Ensure changes are deployed safely, with appropriate testing, rollback strategies and consideration for existing users and workflows.

4. AI-Powered Development & Continuous Improvement

• Actively leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate implementation, debugging, testing and code quality.
• Explore opportunities to use AI and automation to improve development workflows and engineering productivity.
• Apply sound engineering judgment when using AI-generated code, ensuring all implementations meet our quality, security and maintainability standards.
• Contribute to improving development processes, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and deployment practices.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend practical improvements that deliver measurable value.
• Help establish an engineering culture that combines modern tooling, rapid experimentation and disciplined execution.

5. Technical Collaboration & Leadership

• Collaborate with Product to understand the business context behind requirements and help shape effective technical solutions.
• Take ownership of technical decisions within your scope, clearly communicating trade-offs, risks and dependencies.
• Provide thoughtful, constructive code reviews that improve quality and help other developers grow.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and contribute to raising engineering standards across the team.
• Break down complex initiatives into manageable deliverables with realistic estimates and clear technical requirements.
• Communicate progress, blockers and technical risks proactively.
• Demonstrate accountability for outcomes, taking responsibility not just for delivering code but for ensuring it works reliably in production.

💥 What’s in it for you

• The world is your oyster – immerse yourself in inspiring destinations while you work
• Meaningful impact – create environments where children and families thrive together
• Work-life integration – structured schedules with time to explore and recharge
• The chance to build our IT function from the ground up, as our first dedicated hire in this space
• Family benefits - Enjoy discounted tuition for your children at our Boundless Schools
  
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🚀 What we’re looking for

Technical experience

• • 5+ years of professional software development experience, with significant experience building and maintaining payment systems, e-commerce, CRM or booking systems
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, Hotwire, React including modern frontend architecture, state management and performance optimization.
  • Strong backend development experience, ideally with Ruby on Rails and/or Node.js.
  • Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, indexing and transactional integrity.
  • Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and third-party services.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, monitoring and production troubleshooting.
  • Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, automated testing and secure development practices.
  • Experience working with payment systems, complex transactional workflows or business-critical applications is a strong advantage.
  • Practical experience using AI coding assistants and integrating them into professional development workflows.

Mindset & ways of working

• • Ownership mentality: You take responsibility for the quality and reliability of your work, from initial design to production.
  • Product thinking: You care about the problems we’re solving and challenge requirements when there’s a better approach.
  • Engineering discipline: You understand that working software isn’t necessarily well-engineered software, and you know when to invest in doing things properly.
  • Pragmatism: You can balance technical perfection with business priorities, knowing when to move quickly and when to slow down.
  • Problem-solving: You investigate root causes, think through edge cases and anticipate potential failures before they happen.
  • Autonomy: You’re comfortable working independently, making decisions and navigating ambiguity without constant direction.
  • Collaboration: You communicate clearly, welcome feedback and enjoy helping others improve.
  • Continuous learning: You’re curious about emerging technologies, AI and better ways of building software.

✨ What's next?

• First call with our Recruitment team (30 min)
• Interview with our Head of Product & Infra (45 min)
• Technical/scenario-based interview with Technical Lead (45 min)
• Final check-in with our Design Lead (45 min)

The process might change slightly as we go along, we will keep you posted at all times.

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