Full-Stack Developer — Ops CMS

Job Requirements Document

Full-Stack Developer — Ops CMS

Department: Engineering / Data Team

Reports To: Engineering Lead

Employment Type: Full-Time Onsite

Location: Phase 4 DHA

1. Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced full-stack developer to join our engineering team and work on an internal operations platform built on Next.js 15 + Payload CMS 3 + MongoDB, integrated with AWS services (S3, SQS), third-party email providers, and a Chrome extension.

The successful candidate will work across the full stack — maintaining and extending CMS collections, hooks, API routes, and admin UI components — while contributing to reliability, security, and developer experience.

2. Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship new features across the CMS and API layer
• Build and maintain custom Next.js API routes and third-party integrations (AWS S3, SQS, Postmark)
• Maintain data sync pipelines and cron jobs that keep operational data consistent
• Work within an OTP-based passwordless authentication system and enforce role-based access control (RBAC) at collection and field levels
• Develop and improve custom admin UI components and server actions
• Write strict TypeScript following established conventions
• Collaborate on the CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions) and deployment workflows
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents

3. Required Technical Skills

Core Stack

Skill

Minimum Level

• Next.js (App Router, server actions, API routes) = Proficient — 2+ years
• React 18/19 = Proficient
• TypeScript (strict mode, generics, enums) = Proficient — 2+ years
• MongoDB (aggregation pipelines, indexing, Mongoose) = Solid working knowledge
• Node.js (≥18) = Proficient
• REST API design = Proficient

CMS & Framework

Skill

Notes

• Payload CMS 3.x = Strongly preferred; willingness to learn required
• Payload collections, hooks, access control = Direct experience preferred

Cloud & Infrastructure

Skill

Notes

• AWS S3 (upload, presigned URLs, IAM) = Required
• AWS SQS (message send, batch processing) = Required
• Docker (multi-stage builds, alpine images) = Required
• GitHub Actions (CI/CD pipelines) = Required

Security

• OTP / passwordless authentication flows
• Timing-safe comparisons, secret hashing (scrypt)
• RBAC at API and field level
• CSRF protections and origin allowlisting

4. Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Payload CMS patches (patch-package)
• Familiarity with Chrome extension communication patterns
• Postmark or similar transactional email integration
• sharp image processing in Node.js

Application Question(s):

• 1- Can you come to Dha phase 4 from Monday to Friday ?

2- What are your salary expectations for this post ?
3- What is your notice period we need to fill this position urgently ?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Full-Stack Developer — Ops CMS: 5 years (Required)

Location:

• Lahore (Required)

Work Location: In person