- Location
- New York, NY, United States · Onsite
- Compensation
- $150k – $220k • 0.5% – 1.0%
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience level
- SENIOR (5+ years exp)
- Specialization
- Software Engineer, Wellfound
- Source
- Wellfound
What you’ll do
- Own full-stack feature development across frontend and backend systems.
- Design data models, APIs, backend services, and user-facing product experiences.
- Improve system reliability, monitoring, alerting, and production debugging workflows.
- Help evolve an existing codebase through refactoring, performance improvements, and pragmatic architecture decisions.
- Build clear and usable interfaces that help customers understand complex sales, product, and operational data.
- Translate undocumented system knowledge into clear documentation, runbooks, and maintainable code.
- Work closely with founders to turn business priorities into shipped product.
- Use modern AI development tools such as Claude, Cursor, or similar tools to move faster without sacrificing quality.
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience.
- Strong backend experience with meaningful frontend ownership.
- Experience shipping and owning production systems
- Experience designing and maintaining APIs
- Comfort working in cloud-based environments
- Strong debugging, monitoring, and reliability experience
- Ability to evaluate and improve an existing codebase
- Strong communication skills and high ownership
- Ability to work independently in an ambiguous, early-stage environment
- Care for clean, testable, maintainable code
- Interest in building practical products that solve real customer problems