Company: CareerGenie
Location: Remote (Portugalbased)
Type: FullTime
Compensation: /year Equity
About CareerGenie
CareerGenie is reimagining how people find meaningful work with a platform powered by multiple agents like AI Recruiter AI Career Coach and AI Global Mobility Expert amongst many others that collaborate with each other seamlessly to connect talent with opportunity. Backed by Techstars were building at the edge of AI automation and impact.
Were now scaling our engineering team to power the next phase of our web and mobile experience helping users get career clarity verified skills and job access faster than ever before.
The Role
Were hiring a FullStack Lead Engineer to take ownership of our engineering architecture guide best practices and ship core product features across web mobile and backend. Youll work directly with the founding team (Product Design and CTO) and play a key role in bringing to life our AI agent workflows automation systems and realtime career insights.
This is a handson leadership role with the opportunity to grow into Head of Engineering as the team scales.
What Youll Do
- Lead fullstack development: Contribute across our platform React (web) (backend) React Native (mobile).
- Collaborate across teams: Work closely with Product and Design to scope plan and deliver features.
- Build AIpowered workflows: Support features built around AI agents voice interactions and n8n automations.
- Mentor and guide engineers: Establish code quality standards review PRs and help grow the team.
- Own infrastructure: Manage performance scalability and reliability of our services hosted on Azure.
- Iterate fast: Embrace a builder mindset prototype quickly ship learn improve.
You Should Have
- 5 years of fullstack engineering experience (React REST APIs)
- Experience leading projects or small engineering teams
- Comfort working with React Native or mobilefirst development
- Familiarity with Azure cloud services and deployment workflows
- Exposure to AIdriven product features (e.g. GPT APIs voice agents intelligent UIs)
- Based in Portugal with fluent English communication skills
NicetoHaves
- Experience using AIenhanced developer tools like GitHub Copilot Cursor Clide or similar IDEs
- Experience with n8n Zapier or similar nocode/lowcode tools
- Interest in building for edtech jobtech or socialimpact platforms
- Familiarity with UX collaboration and fastpaced product iteration
- Passion for the future of work and AIassisted career tools
Why Join CareerGenie
- Purposedriven product: Help people find better careers faster powered by AI
- Startup ownership: Play a central role in shaping our tech stack and engineering culture
- Remotefirst from Portugal: We care about outcomes not clockin time
- Work with cuttingedge tech: Voice agents GPT workflows automation and internal tools
- Equity upside: Competitive salary real ownership as we scale
- Backed by Techstars with access to an international network of mentors and advisors