Lead Full Stack Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
23 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Job Description
Job Requirements
- Technical
- 10+ years full-stack/systems development, 3+ years leadership
- Strong Node.js, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript ecosystem knowledge
- Expertise in browser APIs, WebAssembly, Web Workers, and browser-based runtime environments
- Experience designing and scaling REST/GraphQL APIs serving millions of requests
- Understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Cloudflare or Azure)
- Proven ability to optimize backend performance, caching strategies, and database design
- Experience with containerization, virtualization, and sandboxing concepts
- Knowledge of load balancing, rate limiting, and designing for high availability
- Experience with developer tooling, build systems, and runtime optimization
- Track record of architectural decisions balancing speed and maintainability
- Daily user of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude)
- Experience building AI-integrated applications and platform features
- Leadership
- Performance reviews, career development, and difficult conversations
- Growing engineers to senior/staff+ levels
- Hiring backend/platform engineers
- Building remote team culture
- Coaching mindset with balance of individual and business needs
- Skills
- Deep understanding of browser internals and web platform capabilities
- Experience designing scalable, performant runtime systems
- Strong architectural thinking for systems handling scale and growth
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Pragmatic mindset: ship MVPs, bias toward action, match quality to business need
- Business thinking: tie technical work to clear outcomes
- Collaborative: knowledge sharing and unblocking others is core work
- 🎯 Bonus Points
- Experience building developer tools, IDEs, or online code editors
- Open-source contributions to runtime or tooling projects
- Background in distributed systems or cloud infrastructure at scale
- Experience with service workers, IndexedDB, and offline-first architectures
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or other container orchestration platforms
- Knowledge of CDN optimization, edge computing, and global infrastructure
- 📌 A Few Notes
- You do
- not
- need a college degree to apply
- You do not need to be located in the U.S. — we’re remote-friendly
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