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StartupSoftFull Stack Engineer
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WE ARE
StartupSoft is a team of tech experts turning ideas into products people use.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
We are now looking for a Lead engineer to join the early-stage startup in sales area.
STAGE
MVP.
TEAM
co-founders.
STACK:
- Node.js (main language), React
- MongoDB / NoSQL (current database)
- SQL (target database; exact engine TBC)
- ORM / framework, cloud and CI/CD: TBC
Requirements:
- 7+ years delivering production web applications and leading technical decisions.
- Strong experience with Node.js/Express, React, MongoDB, SQL, CI/CD, cloud, and architecture.
- Experience with customer-facing SaaS platforms, technical leadership, and engineering process ownership.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities:
Engineering Excellence & SDLC
- Own and evolve the Engineering SOP, including branching, PR workflow, documentation, CI/CD, release management, and operational readiness.
- Drive industry best practices, including automated testing, infrastructure as code, DevSecOps, code quality standards, and observability.
- Own release cadence, hotfix processes, engineering metrics, and continuous improvement.
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Make architecture and implementation decisions across Express, React/Vite, Python services, databases, cloud infrastructure, and integrations.
- Own MongoDB-to-SQL migration strategy, schema governance, sequencing, and delivery planning.
- Define technical standards, design patterns, ADRs, and platform roadmaps.
Product Development Leadership
- Partner with Product and Business leaders to turn customer requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Lead technical discovery, estimation, tradeoff analysis, and roadmap planning.
- Balance feature delivery, technical debt, security, reliability, and maintainability.
Customer & Stakeholder Leadership
- Represent Engineering in customer meetings, architecture reviews, security assessments, and escalations.
- Communicate technical decisions, risks, delivery plans, and platform capabilities to customers and executives.
- Support enterprise onboarding, audits, due diligence, and compliance reviews.
Reliability, Security & Operations
- Own production readiness, observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and RCA processes.
- Champion secure coding, vulnerability management, access controls, secrets management, and OWASP-aligned practices.
- Ensure platform scalability, resilience, performance, and operational excellence.
People Leadership
- Mentor engineers, assign work, conduct reviews, and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. (Lead a team of ~ 4 junior engineers)
What we offer:
- 18 business days of paid vacation per year.
- 10 paid sick days
- Accounting support and legal consultations.
- Budget for medical insurance\sports\education.
- Internal English lessons.
- Professional technical equipment (laptops, monitors etc).