Senior Full-Stack Developer Needed — Modular Construction Compliance Platform (React/FastAPI/MongoDB)

Job ID: 40458211

Budget: $250 – $750 AUD

Senior DevOps / Production Deployment Engineer Needed — Modular Compliance Platform (React/FastAPI/MongoDB)

We have completed a working MVP for a cloud-based modular construction compliance, QC, certification, and project tracking platform for the Australian housing market (NCC Class 1a).

The system already includes:

* React frontend
* FastAPI backend
* MongoDB
* Role-based authentication (RBAC)
* 15-stage Factory QC workflow
* Site Evidence Pack
* Australian Certification tracking
* NCR/CAR system
* PDF Evidence Pack export
* Offline PWA sync queue
* Notifications system
* Daily Admin Digest
* GitHub export documentation
* Production handover documentation
* Security hardening and production boot guards

The platform is now entering:
PRODUCTION INFRASTRUCTURE, DEPLOYMENT, SECURITY, AND OPERATIONAL HARDENING.

We are seeking a senior developer / DevOps engineer to assist with production deployment, infrastructure ownership setup, security validation, CI/CD, and operational readiness.


Current Status

* Backend tests: 75/75 passing
* Email delivery currently MOCKED (`EMAIL_ENABLED=false`)
* Production mode currently disabled (`PRODUCTION=false`)
* GitHub export docs completed
* Handover documentation completed
* Boot guard prevents unsafe production startup

Scope of Work

1. GitHub Ownership & CI/CD

* Push project into customer-owned private GitHub repository
* Validate `.gitignore`
* Verify no secrets committed
* Configure GitHub Actions / CI pipeline
* Validate deployment workflows

2. Production Infrastructure Provisioning

Assist with setup and hardening of:

* Production hosting (AWS / Render / Railway / Fly.io or recommendation)
* MongoDB Atlas production cluster
* Object storage (AWS S3 preferred)
* Secret/environment variable management
* SSL/domain configuration
* Production backups
* Monitoring/logging recommendations

All infrastructure must remain customer-owned.

3. Production Security Hardening

Tasks include:

* JWT hardening
* Secret rotation
* Production env validation
* Rate limiting
* CORS lockdown
* IP allow-listing where required
* Removal/gating of development endpoints
* Password reset flow hardening
* Production deployment validation

4. Resend Email Integration

Once production infrastructure is confirmed:

* configure Resend
* verify domain
* enable live email delivery
* test notification workflows
* validate digest jobs
* validate password reset delivery

5. Production Deployment & Smoke Testing

Assist with:

* first production deployment
* smoke testing
* deployment rollback procedures
* environment validation
* uptime checks
* operational verification

Existing Architecture

Frontend:

* React
* PWA support
* IndexedDB offline queue

Backend:

* FastAPI
* MongoDB
* APScheduler
* JWT authentication

Features already implemented:

* RBAC
* QC workflows
* NCR/CAR
* Evidence tracking
* PDF generation
* Notifications
* Daily digest
* Audit logs
* Offline sync
* Certifier handover bundles

Required Experience

Strong experience required with:

* DevOps
* FastAPI
* MongoDB Atlas
* GitHub Actions
* Production deployments
* Cloud infrastructure
* Security hardening
* JWT auth
* CI/CD
* AWS/S3
* Resend/email systems
* Environment/security management

Experience with:

* compliance systems
* QA/QC systems
* construction/project management platforms
* or document/evidence platforms
is highly regarded.

Important Requirements

* Customer retains full ownership of:

* source code
* GitHub repositories
* hosting
* databases
* domains
* storage
* environment variables
* and all infrastructure

* No contractor-owned infrastructure

* No shared production credentials

* All work must support long-term maintainability and customer control

Please Provide

* Relevant production deployment experience
* Similar systems deployed
* Infrastructure recommendations
* Security experience
* Estimated timeline
* Estimated pricing
* Availability
* Ongoing support options
Related categories: MongoDB DevOps CI/CD FastAPI