Founding Engineer (Python / FastAPI / Next.js) — (US Based)
Sierra Studio, United States
The role
Our client is hiring a founding engineer to own the product's technical foundation. You'll take a working v1 and turn it into production-grade software manufacturers run their businesses on, deciding how it's built, how it scales, and how the engineering team works as it grows. This role is for a builder: someone who would rather ship, talk to users, and iterate than wait for a perfect spec.
What you will do
- Own the codebase and architecture end to end, starting with an audit of v1 and a plan for what to keep, rebuild, and harden.
- Ship full-stack features across Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, WebSockets, and Next.js.
- Build integrations with manufacturers' ERP systems and other third-party tools so order, inventory, and production data flow into the product without manual entry.
- Design and evolve the data model as the product expands, with clean, reversible Alembic migrations.