Mid/Sr Full Stack Developer

Mid/Sr Full Stack Developer

Job Description

At Stirling Brandworks, we believe great digital experiences come from talented people who are curious, collaborative, and genuinely passionate about what they do.

We’re looking for a Full Stack Developer (Mid–Senior Level) who loves building modern websites and applications, thrives on solving technical challenges, and is excited to contribute to a team that values creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement.

As a full-service creative and digital agency, we work with clients across a wide range of industries, which means no two projects are quite the same. From highly customized WordPress websites to sophisticated web applications and emerging technologies, our work offers opportunities to explore new ideas, sharpen your skills, and build solutions that make a real impact.

You’ll work closely with our development team, Director of Engineering, and creative teams to bring ambitious digital experiences to life. We value strong technical expertise, thoughtful problem-solving, ownership, and collaboration—and we encourage people to find smarter ways to build.

If you’re passionate about great code, excited by new technologies, and enjoy being part of a team where your ideas and contributions matter, we’d love to meet you.

What You’ll Do

• Modern digital experiences: Build responsive, accessible, high-performing websites, web applications, and custom software solutions across industries.
• Full-stack development: Develop intuitive front-end interfaces and reliable back-end functionality, APIs, integrations, and application logic.
• Custom WordPress: Build, maintain, and expand custom WordPress themes, plugins, and integrations for our portfolio of 80+ WordPress clients.
• Bring designs to life: Collaborate with designers to translate Figma designs and prototypes into polished, responsive, accessible experiences with attention to interactions and visual detail.
• Own delivery: Take ownership of assigned tasks and features from requirements and estimates through development, testing, QA, and delivery.
• Cross-functional workflow: Work with developers, designers, and account managers through tickets, milestones, reviews, and established delivery processes.
• Technical direction: Contribute to architecture, technical planning, scoping, and framework selection, with opportunities for increasing project leadership.
• Quality and problem-solving: Investigate issues proactively and write maintainable, secure, performant code; communicate tradeoffs, blockers, and recommendations.
• AI-assisted development: Use tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and similar solutions to accelerate debugging, refactoring, testing, documentation, and repetitive work—while reviewing and validating outputs.
• Keep growing: Explore technologies, share knowledge, and suggest better ways to build and deliver projects.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: Typically 5+ years of professional development experience; exceptional candidates with demonstrable skills and judgment are welcome even if they have fewer years.
• Core languages: Strong PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills, with demonstrated front-end and back-end delivery.
• Modern front end: Experience with React.js, Tailwind CSS, responsive design, and component-based development.
• WordPress expertise: Significant hands-on experience with custom WordPress themes/plugins, custom fields, APIs, and advanced functionality beyond off-the-shelf builds.
• Back end and integrations: Comfort with databases, REST APIs, third-party integrations, and back-end application logic.
• Figma implementation: Experience translating Figma files into production-ready responsive interfaces, balancing design fidelity, usability, and accessibility.
• Workflow familiarity: Experience with Git, tickets, code review, deployments, QA, and structured project delivery.
• Technical judgment: Strong independent troubleshooting, prioritization, and clear communication with technical and nontechnical collaborators.
• AI fluency: Familiarity with Copilot, Cursor, or comparable AI coding tools; ability to evaluate AI-generated code critically and protect client data, security, and maintainability.
• Mindset: Curious, adaptable, accountable, and comfortable collaborating across multiple projects and industries.

Nice To Have

• Additional experience: Mobile or cross-platform application development; headless CMS; cloud hosting; CI/CD; additional frameworks; solution architecture; agency experience; technical project leadership.

Why Stirling?

• Variety and learning: Work with great clients across industries, different technology stacks, and projects that keep you learning.
• Your ideas matter: Help evaluate frameworks, improve workflows, and recommend technical approaches—not simply execute a predefined solution.
• Ownership with support: Join an experienced team, learn our processes, and grow into greater responsibility for technical decisions and project execution.
• People and culture: Collaborate with creative thinkers and technical problem-solvers who care about great work and enjoy the process.

Not sure if you’re a good fit?

You don’t need to check every box. If you’re excited to build meaningful digital experiences and help shape what we create next, we’d love to hear from you.