Full Stack Engineer
WhiteWater Express Car Wash · Houston, TX
$100,000–$130,000
Jul 2, 2026
Houston, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack engineering role at a multi-site car wash company, focused on building and maintaining an internal portal, reporting tools, and middleware services that connect POS, CRM, and operational data. The work centers on Node.js, Next.js, React, and Fastify APIs, with AWS-hosted containerized deployments and deliberate use of generative AI tools to accelerate development. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable owning application architecture end-to-end.
Senior level · 5+ years · Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 390 people in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 290–510
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $132,286 (middle half $103,415–$162,956).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title carries no seniority level word, so the title states no level; however, the 5+ years requirement and full end-to-end ownership of the portal, middleware, and APIs support a Senior classification.
A Bachelor's degree in CS or related field is listed in Required Qualifications but is immediately qualified by 'or equivalent practical experience', so the degree requirement is set to None.
React and Next.js appear prominently in the Key Responsibilities section (not under Required Qualifications), so they are treated as preferred/stack context rather than hard gates.
Fastify and Zod appear in Key Responsibilities as the specific tools to be used, but are not listed under Required Qualifications; treated as preferred.
AI tool experience (Claude.ai, MCP) is listed as a required qualification in the Required Qualifications section, but the specific tool named (Claude.ai) is treated as a representative example of a broader capability requirement; it is marked preferred since the hard gate is the general AI-in-workflow experience, which is captured in the required skills via the 'AI tools in a development workflow' framing. Claude.ai itself is listed as preferred.
AWS experience is required ('Working knowledge of AWS application services'), but the specific AWS sub-services (Fargate, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, CloudFormation) all appear under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
The posting explicitly states proof of U.S. citizenship is required and the role is not eligible for visa sponsorship — this is an unusual hard gate not captured in standard fields.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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