Lead Full Stack Engineer

• 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 • 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 • 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 • You do not need to meet every qualification listed above