Founding Engineer (LATAM Remote)

Overview

Technical Challenge

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of fullstack features, owning architecture decisions and ensuring high-quality implementation across the frontend and backend.
• Drive backend system design and development, building and maintaining robust APIs and services that support product growth.
• Provide technical leadership to the engineering team, setting standards, mentoring teammates, and raising overall engineering excellence.
• Support DevOps and cloud infrastructure initiatives, improving deployment workflows, observability, and operational reliability for production systems.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated ability to build and ship modern fullstack applications with strong proficiency in TypeScript, Python, React, and Next.js, Django or similar frameworks.
• Strong backend development experience using Python or Node.js to design and implement reliable services and APIs.
• Experience developing and maintaining data layers using PostgreSQL, including designing schemas and supporting application performance needs.
• Ability to contribute across the stack, collaborating effectively on frontend development with Tailwind CSS and modern UI patterns, as well as backend integrations and AI/ML services using Python
• Experience building and maintaining systems using Python in support of product capabilities, services, or automation.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and cloud operations practices, using tools such as Terraform and Kubernetes to support scalable environments.
• Proven leadership and team management capabilities, including guiding technical decisions, mentoring engineers, and coordinating delivery across priorities.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working with GCP.

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