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Founding Full Stack Engineer - React.js/Next.js/Node.js

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5 - 10 Years
Remote

Posted on: 15/06/2026

Job Description

Job Title: Founding Full-Stack Engineer (AI-Native)

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Working Days: Monday to Saturday

Read this first:

This is not a maintenance role. We're not looking for someone to pick up tickets from a backlog and close them at a comfortable pace. We're looking for one person who can take a feature from a one-line idea to something live in production UI, API, data, deploy because they think in whole systems, ship fast, and use AI as a force multiplier instead of a novelty.

If you've spent the last year building Claude, agents, and AI workflows into how you actually work and you're shipping 510x what you used to this is for you. If AI-native is a line on your résumé but not a habit, it isn't.

We work hard here: roughly 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. We're saying that up front because it's the truth and we'd rather you self-select than be surprised. This suits people in builder mode who want equity-grade ownership and the speed that comes with it. It does not suit people optimizing for balance right now, and that's a completely valid choice just not this role.

What you'll own:

- You own features end to end from the pixel a user clicks to the row it writes in the database. No hand-offs, no that's a frontend/backend problem.

- Build user-facing product: clean, fast, responsive interfaces that feel good to use.

- Build the backend behind them: APIs, business logic, data models, integrations.

- Wire in AI features LLM calls, retrieval, agents, MCP tools as first-class parts of the product, not bolt-ons.

- Ship it yourself: deploy, monitor, fix. You own the feature in production, not just in the PR.

- Make product and architecture calls and live with them. You decide, you build, you're accountable for the outcome.

How we expect you to work (the AI-native part):

This is the differentiator and we're serious about it.

- You use Claude / AI agents / orchestrated workflows as a daily tool to compress the work scaffolding UI and services, writing and reviewing code, debugging, generating tests, automating the repetitive across the whole stack.

- You can build the automation, not just consume it: chaining tools, writing agentic workflows, wiring AI into your dev loop and into the product itself.

- You exercise judgment over the output. AI accelerates you; it doesn't think for you. You know when to trust it and when to throw the answer away.

- Net effect: you ship at a pace that looks unreasonable to someone working the old way.

Tech stack:

What you'll be working in day to day:

- Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS

- Backend: Node.js, Express.js (Next.js API routes / FastAPI where it fits)

- Databases: PostgreSQL (incl. pgvector), Redis

- Vector / embeddings: pgvector, plus dedicated stores Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB, Qdrant

- AI integration: LLM APIs (Claude et al.), agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP)

- APIs & auth: REST, GraphQL, WebSockets; OAuth2, JWT, rate limiting

- Infra & DevOps: AWS, Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions); Kubernetes where needed

- AI / NLP (adjacent): Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK; vLLM, Ollama, MLflow, Weights & Biases

Must-have skills:

- 5+ years shipping production software across the full stack.

- React + Next.js + TypeScript you build interfaces that are fast, accessible, and don't look like a default template.

- Node.js + Express.js strong backend chops: APIs, business logic, integrations.

- PostgreSQL + Redis data modeling, query performance, caching; you reason about data, not just CRUD it.

- API design & auth REST and GraphQL, OAuth2/JWT, sensible rate limiting.

- Ship-it-yourself ops comfortable with AWS, Docker, and CI/CD; you can get your own work to production.

- AI feature integration you've built with LLM APIs, retrieval/vector search, and ideally MCP; you know how to make AI features actually work in a product.

- Startup background early-stage, small teams, ambiguous specs, real ownership.

- Demonstrated AI-native workflow concrete examples of using Claude/agents to 10x specific work.

Good-to-have skills:

- Design sensibility you have taste and can make a product feel polished without a designer holding your hand.

- Real-time WebSockets, gRPC, streaming UIs.

- Python + FastAPI useful when ML and backend overlap.

- Dedicated vector stores Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB, Qdrant.

- Kubernetes and deeper infra ownership at scale.

- Mobile React Native or similar cross-platform experience.

- Model serving & MLOps vLLM, Ollama, MLflow, Weights & Biases.

- Messaging / streaming Redis Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.

What you get:

- Real ownership and the autonomy to match you make the calls on what you build.

- A small, fast, high-trust team with no bureaucracy between you and shipping.

- The chance to build the product from the ground up rather than inherit someone else's.

Role: Full Stack Developer

Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting

Department: Engineering - Software & QA

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