Full Stack Developer

About Excel

Ranked 6X by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest-growing companies in America, Excel specializes in digital advertising and performance marketing, playing a pivotal role in connecting consumers with insurance brands, at scale. We partner with large strategic brands such as insurance carriers, brokers, and agencies, supplying them with high quality prospects looking for their services. This involves owning and operating top-rated insurance websites that we promote via paid search marketing driving the highest-intent consumers looking to acquire an insurance plan to meet their needs.

• Our Vision: Acquiring great customers should be simple.
• Our Mission: Helping insurance brands acquire the right customers at scale.
• Our Values: E - Embrace Simplicity, X - XL Impact, C - Customer Centric, E - Extreme Ownership, L - Laser Focused.
  
  

Our team

At Excel we believe remote working is an important way to enable people to achieve their best work while maximizing time efficiency and personal freedom. Our culture is based on team-based performance that is highly aligned but loosely coupled, extreme ownership, growth mindset, curiosity, personal accountability, and we flourish because of the creativity and input from our team members. As an agile and innovative company, we are always looking for our next high performer to help transform the future!

Job Description

Do you want to build cutting-edge systems and create a user experience that sets the standard for excellence? Are you someone who thrives on challenges, innovates solutions, and takes pride in delivering exceptional results? Do you want to be part of a team that values creativity, collaboration, and technical mastery? If so, you might just have found your next great opportunity.

At Excel, we're a team of passionate developers, driven by a mission to craft world-class web applications that redefine user engagement and functionality. We're merging innovative design with seamless performance to create platforms that blow past the most stringent expectations.

As a Full Stack Developer, you will work at the intersection of creativity and technology, helping to shape the future of our platforms. You'll be more than a developer—you'll be an innovator, a problem solver, and a key contributor to projects that drive real impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Build highly responsive, accessible, and interactive web applications using SvelteKit, TypeScript, and headless CMS technologies.
• Design and implement scalable, reusable components and architectures for maintainability across multiple projects.
• Solve complex UI challenges by crafting seamless, dynamic, and engaging user experiences that set new benchmarks for performance and usability.
• Push the boundaries of speed and responsiveness through advanced caching strategies, efficient data handling, and performance optimization techniques.
• Implement and maintain robust testing strategies, including unit and end-to-end test suites, to ensure world-class quality.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand critical business needs and translate them into scalable, high-impact solutions.
• Take ownership of major technical initiatives, such as whole codebase refactors and migrations.
• Mentor team members, fostering innovation, ownership, and a culture of continuous improvement.
  
  

Qualifications

• Expertise in SvelteKit, TypeScript, and headless CMS platforms, with a proven ability to deliver scalable, production-ready systems.
• A strong problem-solving mindset, capable of tackling large-scale technical challenges with innovative and effective solutions.
• A self-starter attitude with the confidence to identify and resolve key problems without waiting for direction.
• Experience designing and maintaining unit testing and end-to-end testing frameworks to ensure high-quality, stable codebases.
• Deep understanding of performance monitoring and debugging techniques to maintain optimal application reliability and speed.
• Exceptional communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience in leading complex migrations and code refactors.
• Nice-to-Have:
• Experience with frameworks like Astro or SolidJS.
• Knowledge of UI/UX principles, particularly for forms and landing pages.
• Familiarity with performance monitoring tools such as ELK, New Relic, Sonar, or Grafana Faro.
• Working knowledge of tools like S3, CloudFront, EKS, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, and DynamoDB.
• Industry experience in marketing technology.
  

Reporting relationships

• Reports to: Lead Full Stack Engineer
• Direct reports: None
  
  

Compensation Mix

• Fixed base salary
• Performance bonus
• Transactional bonus
• $1,000 Learning Allowance
• Company-sponsored benefits
  
  

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Short term disability insurance
• Long term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
  
  

Benefits vary depending on location and applicability.

Perks

• Holidays, vacation, and personal paid time-off
• Work-life flexible while committed to growth
• The entire company is remote/work from home
• Company provided computer hardware/software
• Unlimited growth and development opportunities
  
  

Next steps

If you are interested in this opportunity, want to grow with a company that is invested in you and the future, apply now to be considered for this position! It is highly recommended you read our culture memo at https://excelimpact.com/culture before applying to ensure you would be a good cultural fit.