Intermediate Full Stack Developer

Want to revolutionize the future of education and do meaningful work that transforms future generations' lives?

Crimson Education is the world's leading college admissions consultancy, with over 1,320 Ivy League offers and 2,140 to the US Top 15. We help ambitious students gain admission to the world's top universities through expert-led guidance and proven, data-driven strategies. Crimson students are 7x more likely to get into the Ivy League than their peers.

What sets us apart is our unmatched scale and expertise. We have the largest team of Former Admissions Officers and Strategists globally. Every student is matched with a carefully-chosen team of admissions experts who zero in on different parts of their college application — from essays to extracurriculars — ensuring every detail is expertly executed.

We've raised over $89M USD from top-tier global investors, including Tiger Global, and have expanded into over 30 countries. We were recently featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal — read the article here.

The Role

We're looking for an Intermediate Full Stack Developer to join our engineering team supporting growth products for a global, multi-locale website platform. You'll work alongside senior engineers, designers, and marketers to build performant, SEO-friendly web experiences that convert users and scale globally.

This is a hands-on development role with exposure to modern front and back-end tooling, content infrastructure, and marketing tech integrations.

What are the main responsibilities for this role?

• Build and maintain full stack features using , React, , and TypeScript.
  
• Lead API integrations with CRMs, analytics, and marketing platforms.
  
• Implement best practices in performance, accessibility, and technical SEO.
  
• Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to code reviews.
  
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and QA to scope and deliver features.
  
• Support CI/CD pipelines and participate in sprint planning and retrospectives.
  
• Troubleshoot and resolve bugs and technical issues across environments.
  

What skills and experience are required?

• 3–5 years of commercial full stack development experience
  
• Proficiency in React, , , and TypeScript
  
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, Git workflows, and DevOps basics.
  
• An understanding of SEO principles, Core Web Vitals, and responsive design.
  
• Experience working with CMS platforms or structured content systems.
  
• Good written and verbal English communication across time zones.
  
• Desirable but not essential:
  • Experience with Storyblok, Gatsby, Salesforce, Marketo, and Google Analytics.
    
  • Exposure to accessibility standards (WCAG), and internationalisation and localisation.
    
  • Interest in AI developer tooling or modern testing frameworks (Playwright, Cypress).
    
    

What Success Looks Like

• High-quality features shipped consistently, with strong attention to performance.

• Stable, testable code that contributes to platform reliability.

• Delivering strong marketing integrations between large scale CRM platforms and marketing platforms, with accurate logging to enable data accuracy.

• Comfortable ownership of tasks, with proactive communication and follow-through.

• Growing autonomy and ability to unblock peers or raise meaningful improvements.

Why work for Crimson?

• Rapidly growing start up, with a flexible working environment where you will be empowered to structure how you work
• Limitless development and exposure - our internal promotions/role changes made up 33% of all recruitment last year
• $1000 individual training budget per year, we love to 'Level Up' (it's one of our core values)
• Psychologist on staff
• Insightful fireside chats and workshops to help support our high-performing and ambitious team
• Radical Candor is a feedback approach we live by
• We're a global player with 28 markets (and growing) across the globe. Most roles have the option to work from one of our many offices or remotely

If you're passionate about growing in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and want to work with cutting-edge technology, then we'd love to hear from you

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