Founding Engineer

We are hiring a Founding Engineer to take ownership of core platform architecture as we rebuild for a system roughly 50x the scale of what we had before. You'll design and scale distributed systems from scratch (this is deep systems-architecture work, not feature development on an existing system.) You will work directly with the Head of Development and a small team of engineers to ship production systems operating at global scale.

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with real, hands-on ownership of designing and scaling a production system from scratch. You can describe specific production incidents at scale (what broke, why, and what you changed) not just system-design-interview theory.
• Deep TypeScript/Node.js expertise. You should be able to design a NestJS microservice from scratch, not just work in one.
• Strong PostgreSQL skills. You can design schemas for complex, high-throughput production data, write migrations, and reason about transaction isolation and locking.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar). You understand the difference between request-reply and fire-and-forget patterns and when to use each.