Principal Full Stack Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Lead a small engineering team by establishing technical direction, mentoring developers, assigning tasks, conducting code and design reviews, coordinating with contractors, eliminating obstacles, and ensuring accountability for quality and delivery.

• Design and develop proprietary AI features such as retrieval and RAG pipelines, embeddings/vector search, persistent memory and member context, stateful workflows, tool utilization, orchestration, guardrails, and AI-driven personalization.

• Evaluate the production codebase for security vulnerabilities, scalability and performance issues, architectural risks, data protection challenges, and reliability concerns.

• Prioritize and implement practical enhancements for a secure and stable public launch.

• Take responsibility for the platform's technical health, stability, security, scalability, reliability, and ongoing development.

• Manage features from inception to completion, covering data modeling, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.

• Engage across the full stack with a strong emphasis on backend development and hands-on Vue.js frontend work.

• Act as the internal technical liaison to external engineering partners by reviewing architecture and code, validating deliverables, and ensuring compliance with product, security, scalability, and production requirements.

• Collaborate with the current platform engineer on technical knowledge transfer, including architecture, codebase familiarity, environments, infrastructure, accounts, deployment processes, documentation, and operational procedures.

• Design, automate, and conduct functional, regression, load, and smoke testing.

• Create and enhance relational data models, PostgreSQL schemas, queries, indexes, migrations, and Prisma models.

• Work with integrations including Stripe Connect, LiveKit, Twilio, Zoom, Anthropic, and pgvector.

• Utilize AI coding agents to expedite development while ensuring correctness, reliability, security, and maintainability.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8 to 12+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Strong production-level experience with Vue.js.

• Extensive hands-on experience in relational database design.

• PostgreSQL experience is preferred.

• Familiarity with Nuxt and Prisma is a plus.

• Significant experience managing crucial aspects of a production platform encompassing backend architecture, databases, APIs and integrations, infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.

• Proven track record of developing an AI-native SaaS product or significant proprietary AI capabilities from initial design to production launch and ongoing operation.

• Demonstrated ability to assess production applications for security, scalability, reliability, and performance risks.

• Hands-on experience in identifying vulnerabilities, safeguarding sensitive customer data, diagnosing bottlenecks, and implementing practical improvements.

• Proven technical leadership of small development teams, including hands-on mentorship, architecture evaluations, work planning, coordination, and delivering results while actively contributing code.

• Experience in reviewing and validating the work of engineers or external development partners, including architecture choices, code quality, testing, security, scalability, and production readiness.

• Ability to quickly comprehend and contribute to an existing codebase and technical direction.

• Experience ensuring production readiness, including monitoring, incident troubleshooting, release processes, technical QA, and addressing critical production issues.

• Proven experience applying AI coding agents on a production codebase.

• Highly organized and self-reliant, with the capability to work independently and make sound technical decisions in a fast-paced environment.

• Enthusiastic about working in a startup atmosphere, with a history of adapting to shifting priorities and taking on increased technical responsibility.

• Must be available for at least 5-6 hours of an 8-5 or 9-6 MST schedule.

• This position is not available for candidates in California, New York, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania.

🏝️ Benefits

• Multiple medical insurance options available.

• Employer contributions toward medical insurance premiums.

• Dental and vision insurance options.

• Supplemental life insurance provided.

• Voluntary short-term and long-term disability insurance.

• 15 days of paid time off (PTO) annually.

• 7 paid company holidays.

• Access to company-certified coaches and personal development opportunities.

• Opportunities to participate in company live events.

• Travel and leisure membership benefits.

• Potential to transition into a full-time W2 position with benefits after 3 months, contingent on performance.