Full-Stack Engineer (Contract, Palo Alto)

We are seeking a dynamic self-drivenFull-Stack Engineer (Contractor). Were building the first-mile operations platform for a global food producer: a suit of applications that farm and logistic teams act from. Youll take working prototypes into production integrating against an API owned by a separate team and crafting them so that theyre highly reliable and easy to use.

In this role you will work alongside a Project Manager Product Designer Lead Engineer and the partners operations and IT teams.

This is a 3-month full-time contract (40 hours/week) offering $110$160/hour with the potential for extension based on project needs and contractorsperformance.

Please note that occasional travel may be required as needed to fulfill project tasks.

• Prototype building: Web and mobile interfaces aimed at quick experimentation and validation
• Web app delivery: Aresponsive web interface bilingual (EN/ES). Including authentication deployment CI/CD monitoring error tracking and other quality-of-life services
• Data integration: Connect to our partners API layer and live GPS feeds from third-party providers
• Contribute to the tech direction: Stack architecture and scope calls supported by documentation

• Build-to-learn mindset: You can build quick throwaway prototypes to test ideas with real users. When one works you know what it needs before production (error handling security tests monitoring) and which shortcuts can stay.
• Experience delivering apps to production: You have 7 years building web applications and keeping them running for real users. Youre strong in React and TypeScript comfortable on the backend ( or Python) and know how to design a relational database.
• AI-assisted development: You use AI coding tools and know where they save time and where their output needs checking. We use Claude Code and we expect to learn from how you work with it.
• Infrastructure ownership: Youve handled deployment CI/CD monitoring auth and secrets management yourself without a platform team to lean on.
• Real-time systems: you have experience shipping user-facing product built on live or near-real-time data and you can explain the trade-offs (latency consistency cost) to non-technical people

• Business-level Spanish: You can work comfortably in Spanish our partner teams language.
• React Native and mobile depth: Youve shipped React Native apps and know what it takes to develop interfaces for small screens.
• Geospatial and telemetry experience: Youve worked with mapping tools (Mapbox Leaflet or PostGIS) open satellite imagery such as Copernicus Sentinel-2 or time-series and sensor data pipelines.
• Conversational interfaces: Youve built products on the WhatsApp Business API or similar messaging platforms.

If you identify with Moons values and would like to contribute to our work please submit your resume and cover letter (optional).

Moon Creative Lab is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race color religious creed sex national origin citizenship status age physical or mental disability sexual orientation marital parental veteran or military status unfavorable military discharge or any other status protected by applicable federal state orlocal law.