Adidas Senior Full Stack Developer/AI Builder

The Opportunity adidas NAM Tech is enhancing an enterprise web application that supports essential business processes across the NAM market.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Full-Stack Front-End/Back-End Developer who can design, build, test, deploy, and support enterprise-grade web solutions using technologies such as React, Vite, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Kong, and AWS. In this role, you will collaborate with a Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Product Owner, Platform and DevOps specialists, as well as quality engineering, security partners, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

The ideal candidate is an end-to-end engineer who is equally comfortable developing modern user experiences, building Node.js services and APIs, implementing authentication and authorization controls, diagnosing production issues, and enhancing performance and security.

Role Purpose: Design, develop, deploy, and support enterprise web application features from the React and TypeScript front end through Node.js services, enterprise APIs, Kong integration, PostgreSQL data access, and AWS-hosted production environments.

Key ResponsibilitiesFront-End Development

• Develop responsive and maintainable web applications using React and TypeScript.
• Create reusable components and consistent user-interface patterns.
• Integrate front-end experiences securely with APIs and identity services.
• Apply accessibility, browser compatibility, performance, and secure coding practices.

Back-End and API Development and Enterprise Integration

• Design, build, and maintain Node.js services and application business logic.
• Design clear, versioned, and maintainable APIs.
• Implement PostgreSQL data access and controlled database changes.
• Create appropriate error handling, logging, validation, and audit capabilities.
• Troubleshoot application behaviour and improve service reliability and performance.
• Implement and maintain API exposure and integration patterns using Kong.
• Design REST APIs and OpenAPI 3.1 specifications.
• Maintain API documentation and support reusable integration patterns.

Identity, Security, and Secure Coding

• Implement authentication and authorisation requirements across front-end and back-end components.
• Protect sensitive data and follow secure coding standards.
• Participate in security reviews and address identified vulnerabilities.

Automated Testing and Quality

• Create and maintain automated unit, integration, and Playwright browser tests as part of feature delivery.
• Participate in code reviews and follow agreed quality gates.
• Support regression, performance, security, and business acceptance testing.
• Work with the QA Automation Engineer to improve test coverage and release confidence.

Delivery and Production Support

• Participate in requirements discussions, technical design, refinement, and estimation.
• Work with the AWS Platform / DevOps Engineer on delivery pipelines, environments, monitoring, and release readiness.
• Support deployment, hypercare, incident diagnosis, root-cause analysis, and Level 3 support.
• Maintain technical documentation and contribute reusable development standards and patterns.

Required Technical Skills

Core Full-Stack Skills

• React, Vite and TypeScript
• Node.js
• API design
• Kong
• Authentication and authorization
• Automated unit, integration, and browser testing
• Performance and secure coding

Data, Cloud, and Delivery

• PostgreSQL
• AWS-hosted application environments
• Git and source control
• CI/CD practices
• Application logging, monitoring, and production diagnostics

Preferred Skills

Engineering and Architecture

• Enterprise integration patterns
• REST and JSON-based services
• OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
• Containerized applications
• Event-driven architectures
• Infrastructure-as-code awareness

Required Experience

• Strong hands-on experience delivering production web applications using React, Vite, TypeScript, and Node.js.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise APIs.
• Experience using an API gateway, with Kong strongly preferred.
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization patterns.
• Experience building automated unit, integration, and browser tests.
• Experience improving application performance and applying secure coding practices.
• Experience supporting production solutions after deployment.
• Experience collaborating with architects, platform engineers, quality engineers, business stakeholders,