Seeking a Full Stack Engineer to develop and scale the platform using React and Python. Responsibilities include building frontend applications, developing APIs, managing workflows, and optimizing databases.
This is a remote position.
We are looking for a highly skilled Full Stack Engineer to help build and scale our platform end-to-end. You will work directly with the founders and play a key role in shaping both the product and technical architecture.
This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy ownership, move fast with high quality, and are comfortable taking features from concept through production.
You’ll work across frontend, backend, workflows, infrastructure, and database systems while helping us establish engineering best practices from the ground up.
- Build scalable and production-ready frontend applications using React, TypeScript, Tailwind, and modern component systems
- Develop backend APIs and services using Python
- Design and manage workflow orchestration using Temporal for long-running and multi-step processes
- Work with PostgreSQL databases, including schema design, optimization, and migrations
- Implement reliable testing strategies using Vitest and Playwright
- Deploy and maintain services in cloud environments (GCP preferred)
- Collaborate closely with founders on product and technical decisions
- Ensure high standards for correctness, reliability, error handling, and data integrity
- Own features from UI to backend workflows and database implementation
RequirementsRequired Skills & Experience
Frontend
- Strong experience with React and TypeScript
- Experience with Tailwind CSS and component systems (shadcn preferred)
- Client-side state management and data fetching
- Frontend testing experience with Vitest and/or Playwright
- Strong Python engineering experience
- Experience building REST and/or gRPC APIs
- Understanding of clean architecture and separation of concerns
- Experience with integration testing
- Strong PostgreSQL knowledge
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Temporal
- Understanding of retries, async processing, timeout handling, and distributed workflows
- Familiarity with pgvector or embeddings is a plus
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred)
- Docker and containerized deployments
- Modern CI/CD and deployment workflows
- Experience with object storage systems such as GCS or MinIO
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