Sr. Full Stack Application Engineer
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is the Role
The Marketing Innovation team at Elastic is responsible for developing and maintaining innovative internal applications that improve marketing efficiency and execution. Our flagship app is a homegrown platform crafted to integrate campaign planning, performance reporting, automation, and audience management.
We're seeking a Senior Full Stack Application Engineer who can serve as the primary technical owner for the application, lead other engineers, and partner closely with Technical Program Managers (TPMs), and users to bring our roadmap to life.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Be the lead engineer and architect for the application (React/TypeScript).
- Translate business requirements from marketers and TPMs into scalable, intuitive, and high-performance application features.
- Own technical strategy, design, and implementation, ensuring the platform is modular, maintainable, and performant.
- Collaborate with back-end engineers and infrastructure teams to build and maintain a smooth and efficient development lifecycle.
- Lead technical planning and estimation, helping prioritize work based on impact, feasibility, and dependencies.
- Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and raise the engineering bar through thoughtful feedback and guidance.
- Partner with leadership to craft the vision, roadmap, and technical stack of the platform.
- Help us continue to consolidate marketing tools, reduce SaaS dependencies, and deliver custom-built, natively integrated applications that meet unique business needs.
Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
What You Bring
- 6+ years of experience as a full stack engineer, with deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of technical architecture, performance optimization, and building modular component libraries.
- Experience leading technical projects and collaborating across functions (PM, TPM, Design, etc.).
- Comfortable working in cloud environments and collaborating with back-end systems (ideally built on Google Cloud Functions, RESTful APIs).
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-style development workflows.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with non-technical team members and translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Passion for continuous improvement, creative problem solving, and delivering delightful internal tools.
Bonus Points
- Familiarity with Google Cloud services (e.g., Cloud Functions, BigQuery)
- Experience building data visualizations and analytics dashboards
- Hands-on work with no-code/low-code integration tools (e.g., Zapier) or automation platforms
- Exposure to back-end development using Node.js or Python
- Experience with Next.js for modern web applications
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g., Elasticsearch)
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into applications
