About Pixory
Pixory is a fast-growing e-commerce platform for personalized photobooks. We're building a proprietary CMS to scale globally and need senior engineers who can own the full stack - from pixel-perfect frontends to production-grade infrastructure.
Your Mission
Build and scale our e-commerce platform end-to-end. You'll work across React frontends, Node.js APIs, and AWS infrastructure - shipping features that serve hundreds of thousands of users while maintaining the performance and reliability our customers expect.
Tech Stack:
Front end:
React 18+ with TypeScript
Next.js 14+ (SSR/SSG)
Tailwind CSS, responsive design
Canvas libraries: Konva.js, Fabric.js, or react-konva
State management: Zustand, Redux Toolkit, or Jotai
Performance: Web Workers, OffscreenCanvas, lazy loading
Unit tests: Jest
Back end
Node.js 18+ (Fastify/Express)
PostgreSQL with Prisma/TypeORM, indexing
Redis (caching, queues)
BullMQ for job processing
Sharp.js for image processing
REST API design and implementation
Infrastructure \& DevOps
AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ElastiCache, Autoscaling, DB Cluster (Master/Slave)
Docker containerization
CI/CD: GitHub Actions
Monitoring: CloudWatch, Grafana
Required Experience
5+ years full stack JavaScript/TypeScript
3+ years React in production environments
3+ years Node.js backend at scale (100k+ requests/day)
2+ years hands-on AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3 minimum)
Docker and CI/CD pipeline experience
PostgreSQL or similar SQL database
REST API design and implementation
Strong DevOps knowledge - you're comfortable owning architecture decisions
Must-Haves
React + TypeScript production experience
Node.js backend at real scale
AWS hands-on experience (not just certifications)
Docker deployment experience
Autonomous problem-solver who takes ownership
Nice-to-Have
Photobook, print-on-demand, or design tool industry experience
Built image processing pipelines (crop, resize, format conversion)
Open-source contributions in React/Canvas ecosystem
E-commerce platform development
Payment integration (Stripe, PayPal)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Kubernetes)
Print/PDF Production (Critical Differeniator)
CMYK color space management
PDF generation: LaTeX, Puppeteer, PDF-lib, or similar
Print specifications: bleed, trim boxes, ICC profiles
Command-line tools: ImageMagick, Ghostscript
Who You are
Passionate - Genuinely excited about technology and always learning
Scalability mindset - Design systems for 1M+ users from day one
Ownership - You take features from conception through to production monitoring
Autonomous - Minimal supervision, self-directed problem solving
Clear communicator - Technical to non-technical conversations
Pragmatic - Balance code quality with shipping velocity
Why Pixory
You'll join a fully remote, leanand fast-moving team building a product that's already generating significant revenue. This is a high-impact role where your decisions directly shape the platform's architecture and growth trajectory.
We prioritize real experience over years on a CV - a 3-year engineer with solid AWS and live production apps is more valuable to us than a 7-year developer who's never deployed beyond localhost.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Pay: £75,000.00-£100,000.00 per year
Work Location: Remote