Remote Founding Full-Stack Engineer

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Position Overview

Location: Remote from Latin America Position Type: Part-Time Salary: $5,000 -- $7,000 USD/month ($60,000 -- $84,000 USD annually) + Performance-based growth incentives + Equity opportunities for exceptional candidates. Schedule: Monday to Friday, business hours, Eastern Time.

Our Client is a high-growth, early-stage technology startup engineering an innovative, AI-powered platform designed to disrupt enterprise operational workflows. Operating in the high-stakes intersection of Artificial Intelligence and scalable SaaS architecture, the company is built by forward-thinking developers and entrepreneurs. They foster a dynamic, fast-paced environment where engineering translates directly into company strategy, offering early hires immense technical ownership and a clear path toward executive leadership.

The Role

Our Client is seeking an entrepreneurial, highly motivated Founding Full-Stack Engineer to step into a core technical role and drive the development of their flagship AI platform. This is far from a standard, siloed software engineering position; as a founding engineer, the successful candidate will own the technical architecture from concept to deployment. Working shoulder-to-shoulder with the company founders, this role requires a strategic thinker who can ship features rapidly, evaluate system infrastructure, and establish foundational engineering standards. Exceptional performance in this role paves a direct path toward team leadership, CTO responsibilities, and meaningful equity participation.

Key Responsibilities

Full-Stack Development & Technical Architecture

• Designs, develops, and maintains scalable, secure full-stack web applications from front-end user interfaces to back-end logic.
• Owns the structural architecture of the platform, making decisive choices on tech stacks, database schemas, and integration parameters.
• Builds, tests, and deploys high-impact features rapidly to sustain momentum in an agile, early-stage startup environment.
• Troubleshoots technical debt, eliminates software bugs, optimizes query performance, and manages production-level infrastructure incidents.

Product Strategy & Engineering Governance

• Collaborates directly with the executive founding team to translate complex business requirements into clean, scalable technical solutions.
• Implements robust security protocols, data access controls, and industry-standard compliance parameters across the application layer.
• Helps establish engineering processes, documentation structures, and code review standards to support the development team's scaling phase.
• Joins strategic client alignment sessions occasionally to gather direct user feedback and refine product requirements.

Qualifications, Skills, and Key Competencies

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 4+ years of professional software engineering experience (solid mid-level to senior capability) building and deploying live full-stack web applications.
• Autonomous Execution: Proven track record of taking end-to-end ownership of software projects with minimal supervision from ideation to production.
• Agile Adaptability: Highly comfortable working within a fast-moving startup ecosystem characterized by changing product priorities and fluid requirements.
• Language: Professional working proficiency in English, featuring strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: Elite analytical capability, with an instinct for diving into unfamiliar systems and learning new programming paradigms quickly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience acting as an early-stage founding engineer, lead developer, or technical architect.
• Direct experience building AI-enabled products, managing large language model (LLM) prompts, or integrating machine learning APIs.
• Advanced familiarity with cloud infrastructure deployment systems (AWS, GCP, Azure) and distributed application architectures.
• A strong professional interest in stepping into executive leadership (CTO) or building out future engineering teams.

Benefits

• Executive Career Path: Direct opportunity to advance into the company's ultimate technical leader (CTO), scale a custom engineering pod, and gain substantial equity weight.
• Strategic Footprint: Move beyond routine ticketing systems to actively influence product roadmaps, business mechanics, and commercial direction.
• Immigration & Regulatory Support: Potential for future immigration sponsorship support subject to company milestones and global regulations.
• Remote Operational Autonomy: 100% remote contractor arrangement backed by competitive, stable US-level compensation structures.

Application Process

• Voice/Video Recording is REQUIRED: Your application CANNOT be considered without a voice or video recording (at least 30 seconds in English).
• Mandatory Knockout Questions: Each application includes knockout questions to verify minimum qualifications.
• Apply Wisely: Please apply to no more than three jobs and only if you fully meet the listed qualifications.
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