Founding Engineer – Full-Stack Generalist

atSmart WorkingRemoteIN flagIndiaFull-timeFull-stack EngineerMid-levelSeniorβ‚Ή30 – β‚Ή44/month

Posted Sep 4

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

πŸ“‹ Description

β€’ Take full ownership of the product from inception to completion as a versatile generalist handling frontend, backend, and infrastructure tasks.

β€’ Develop, launch, and implement product enhancements independently without a supporting team.

β€’ Maintain the health of the live platform by managing incidents, defects, releases, and rollbacks.

β€’ Utilize AI and agentic coding tools while independently verifying accuracy, security, and robustness.

β€’ Guide the platform towards achieving ISO 27001 and SOC 2 readiness by April 2027.

β€’ Ensure that AI assistant and orchestration features are reliable, measurable, and secure.

β€’ Make informed decisions on what to maintain, isolate, enhance, or replace based on customer risk and commercial value.

β€’ Strengthen, scale, and advance delivery intelligence, AI assistant capabilities, SOW ingestion, project/resource/commercial management, and beta orchestration features.

β€’ Serve as the hands-on technical owner of the company.

β€’ Potentially assist in defining the role of the first supporting engineering hire once funding is secured.

β€’ Work closely with both technical and non-technical founders in a dynamic and evolving environment.


⛳️ Requirements

β€’ Over 5 years of professional software engineering experience, preferably with background in early-stage startups or high-ownership roles.

β€’ More than 5 years of senior-level full-stack engineering experience, particularly with React/TypeScript for frontend and Node/Postgres-style backend, or modern JavaScript/TypeScript alternatives such as Next.js or Vue/Nuxt.

β€’ Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of software products or platforms.

β€’ At least 4 years of senior-level experience with independent cloud deployment, releases, and CI/CD, or production infrastructure operations without a dedicated DevOps/platform team.

β€’ A minimum of 3 years of senior-level experience with Postgres/Supabase or similar, including row-level security and edge functions.

β€’ 1–2 years of senior-level experience utilizing AI-assisted/agentic coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot, or significant and disciplined professional experience with LLMs.

β€’ A clear methodology for validating AI-generated outputs for accuracy, security, and robustness.

β€’ Comfortable working as a senior/staff-level individual contributor generalist, capable of owning a product or platform end-to-end independently or nearly independently.

β€’ Formal project-leadership titles are not a prerequisite.


🏝️ Benefits

β€’ Full-time, long-term position.

β€’ Completely remote work environment.

β€’ An authentic community focused on growth and well-being.

β€’ Opportunities for both personal and professional development.

β€’ Collaboration with a global team.

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