Full Stack Developer Needed -- 2

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I need an experienced Full Stack Developer to finalize and enhance a production web app for tax planning, with follow-on work building a CFO suite. The current stack is Next.js, MongoDB, and AWS. Your work will improve features, fix bugs, tighten security, polish UI consistency, and ensure smooth integration across the stack.

Important: you must be able to start immediately and work consistently. Begin your proposal with the words: available asap.

## About the products

* Parker’s Tax Plan App. Next.js app that generates and manages client tax plans, dashboards, and reports.
* CFO App \[next phase]. Shared codebase patterns with additional modules for forecasting, KPIs, and monthly reporting.

## Core responsibilities

* Review and refactor

* Audit the codebase for structure, performance, and maintainability.
* Propose a short plan of prioritized improvements.
* Fix key issues

* Resolve non-working buttons, routing and navigation bugs, broken flows, and state issues.
* Data layer and auth

* Ensure secure, reliable MongoDB integration using best practices for schemas, indexing, and transactions where applicable.
* Harden auth and sessions with Auth.js or equivalent, JWT rotation, and role-based access.
* UI and UX polish

* Align spacing, typography, and components.
* Improve responsiveness and accessibility.
* Testing and quality

* Add unit tests and integration tests where sensible.
* Verify cross-browser and mobile behavior.
* CI/CD and deployment

* Streamline deployment on AWS using GitHub Actions.
* Add health checks, rollbacks, and environment parity.
* Observability and reliability

* Add error tracking, logging, and basic metrics.
* Establish a simple runbook for incidents.
* Documentation

* Update README, environment setup, run scripts, and a brief maintenance guide.

## Nice to have

* Next.js App Router, React Server Components, TypeScript, Tailwind.
* State management with Zustand or Redux Toolkit.
* Mongoose or Prisma with MongoDB.
* Auth.js, Stripe, and role-based access control.
* AWS experience with Amplify, ECS Fargate, or Elastic Beanstalk, plus S3, CloudFront, and Secrets Manager.
* Basic security hardening aligned to OWASP Top 10 and secure handling of PII.

## Deliverables for the first two weeks

1. Codebase audit and improvement plan with a small PR that demonstrates your approach.
2. Fix of the top 5 blocking bugs identified in the audit.
3. UI pass on the core flows to align components and spacing.
4. CI/CD pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys to staging.
5. Short setup doc to onboard another developer in under 30 minutes.

## Communication and ways of working

* Daily check-ins in Slack or Upwork messages.
* Issue tracking in GitHub Projects or linear-style board.
* PRs with clear descriptions, screenshots, and test notes.

## Security and compliance basics

* Encrypt data in transit and at rest, enforce least privilege, and rotate secrets.
* Add audit logs for user actions that touch sensitive data.

## What to submit

* Links to 2 to 4 relevant Next.js projects. Include your role and what you shipped.
* A brief note on how you would structure environments, auth, and deployments for this stack.
* Your hourly rate or a weekly retainer option, typical weekly availability, and your time zone.
* Confirm start date by including this exact phrase at the top of your proposal: available asap.

If you are passionate about building reliable, well-crafted web applications and can start now, I would like to hear from you.