Full-Stack Engineer (Node.js/TypeScript/Python), Emergence | Remote (India) | Full-Time
Who We Are
Emergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. We invest in focused portfolios with specialized operating groups that have deep domain expertise and proven playbooks. Emergence combines operational rigor with a growth equity mindset, driving sustainable ARR growth, profitability improvements, and industry-leading customer outcomes.
The Mission
Design and ship production microservices that handle measurable traffic while establishing engineering standards that enable faster, more reliable shipping.
What You'll Do
Write clean, maintainable code in Node.js/TypeScript and Python daily across services.
Design and implement microservices and REST APIs meeting uptime and latency targets.
Debug Node.js/TypeScript performance issues in production using flame graphs, profiling tools, and instrumentation.
Optimize PostgreSQL queries and schema design, owning measurable improvements in latency and resource utilization.
Build frontend components and handle UX considerations for end-to-end features.
Architect Python automation layers at service boundaries, preventing inefficiencies through code review and architectural depth.
Establish code review standards, tooling choices, and deployment practices that increase team velocity and reduce incidents.
Mentor engineers on debugging production issues, database optimization, and end-to-end feature shipping.
Own features from design through production deployment, with telemetry to measure impact.
What We're Looking For
Must-haves
Shipped multiple production systems in Node.js or Python with documented performance issues you diagnosed and fixed.
Strong SQL skills: optimize N+1 queries, design normalized schemas, justify denormalization tradeoffs.
Designed and debugged microservices with REST APIs, familiar with eventual consistency and cross-service failures.
Owned features end-to-end from conception through production monitoring and deployment.
Proficient with Prisma or similar ORMs and PostgreSQL, can write raw SQL when needed.
Hands-on experience with Redis for caching and pub-sub or similar caching layers.
Shipped code in fast-moving environments and debugged production issues under pressure.
Built end-to-end projects including frontend and design decisions, not just backend systems.
Nice-to-haves
Docker and Kubernetes basics; can containerize applications and understand deployment trade-offs.
AWS, GCP, or Azure exposure with managed services like RDS and CloudWatch.
Message queues or event streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ); understand pub-sub versus request-response patterns.
Who you are
You've shipped production systems and you know what that means. You debug performance issues with data, not guesses. You've optimized queries and watched latency drop. You mentor engineers without being asked, because you see how they'll grow. You own problems end-to-end, from the database schema to how users experience it. You change your mind when better data arrives. You refuse to ship broken code even under deadline. You've left codebases more robust than you found them.
What We Offer
Salary: Market-competitive
Location: Fully remote, based in India
Growth: You'll shape engineering culture at multiple category-defining software companies post-acquisition, mentoring teams and establishing standards that compound across the platform.
