Full Stack Software Developer

Who we are

AKTEK Inc offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) and intelligence-as-a-service (IaaS) which enables public and private sector clients to capture risk and operation-related information from internal and external sources and produce accessible and visually informative situational dashboards for timely decision-making support. This is increasingly essential in volatile, high risk business environments.

AKTEK was founded in 2016 and has clients in North America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. Among other things its technology helped:

• International aid projects in North Africa to better understand the political economy of their operating environments via dynamic stakeholder mapping;
• Security agencies in the Horn of Africa to combat piracy via bespoke information management and communication systems;
• Governments in Europe and Africa monitor progress on counter-terrorism strategies’
• Energy companies in Latin America navigate their changing operational contexts with big data fusion, both in environmental and socio-political terms.
• Major retailers and rail operators in the USA combat organized crime.

Requirements: Technical Core

• Academic background in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
• More than 4 years of experience as an old-school Full stack developer on the MERN Stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS).
• Experience in mobile app development is a plus, using React Native with a good grasp of mobile lifecycle (iOS & Android).
• Solid understanding of SQL and No-SQL Databases (MongoDB).
• Solid understanding of basic Git principles.
• Comfortable working with back-end API and data integration.

Productivity & Engineering Mindset

• Robust recent experience using AI-Assisted coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code or equivalent).
• Sound judgment on trade-offs: prioritizing performance, security, and maintainability over cleverness.
• Autonomous and interested in self-growth.

Communication & Logistics

• Strong command of English language, ability to work with remote teams.
• Have no criminal record.
• Have no legal impediment to obtaining a travel visa as required.

Strong Plus

• Previous experience developing visualization tools, workflows and working with geospatial data.
• Experience with multi-tenant / white-label architectures.
• LLM/API integration work (e.g. building AI-backed product features).
• Previous startup experience either as a founder or early employee.
• Foreign language fluency (i.e. Russian, Ukranian, Spanish).

How you work

• Direct communicator. Says what they mean, asks when unclear, no ceremony.
• Ability to adapt to work with teams in different timezones (GMT-4, GMT+2) when required.
• Autonomous and can take an ambiguous problem and drive it to a shipped solution.
• Understand the codebase before assuming, and leave it better than they found it.
• Security-conscious by default.

What we offer:

• A fair compensation package, including 37 vacation days and a high level of work flexibility.
• A culture built around treating people like adults. When something's on fire we deal with it; when it's not, we don't manufacture urgency.
• People over process. We keep rules to the minimum that actually helps, assume good faith and competence, and give autonomy to match.
• Broad ownership and a flat, technically dense team.
• Real architectural influence, your decisions ship.
• Remote-friendly, with teams in 2 time zones.