Remote Senior Software Engineer

Were hiring a Senior Software Engineer to raise the bar on a small fast-moving engineering team building a consumer-facing web application architecture hard problems and helping others ship.

• Flexible Title: Can tailor to reflect your skills & experience.
• Flexible Time: Can do full-time part-time side-gig (off-hours) or fractional (contract).
• Flexible Commitment: Can do short-term long-term or intermittent.
• No degree required. We care about what youve shipped and the judgment you bring not the pedigree.

Why so flexible Were a FUNDED startup racing to launch end of Q3 2026. That gives us just 3 months to stack features while raising additional working capital. Feel free to jump in help us ship then bounce >> or stick around. A successful launch translates into lots of permanent jobs for those that want them. Were also interested in long-term side gig relationships if thats what youre intoin our experience a few expert hours often beat full-time learning-curve hours.

Were a credible funded remote-first startup backed by a growing team. Were pre-launch and moving fast.

This is the senior seat above our junior and mid-level application roles. You dont need tickets pre-scoped. You take fuzzy high-stakes problems this has to work at launch this part of the system is going to hurt us and you design ship and leave the codebase better than you found it.

We have a working product and a real team. What we need is someone who has already been the person others look to on technical calls: trade-offs system design performance and the difference between it works on my machine and its safe in production. Youll still write a lot of code. Youll also review unblock and mentor so the rest of the team ships faster and cleaner.

This is ideal for someone with 610 years building production software who wants startup ownership without a people-manager title.

Youll answer: Whats the right shape for this system What should we not build How do we ship this without creating a mess well live with for two years

Up to $190000 max total annual compensation in Tier 1 cities; cash and equity components to be negotiated. Given the flexible commitment model comp will be structured accordingly fractional or hourly arrangements welcome.

• Youve gotten deep in the codebase and delivered a clear read on architecture risk and where to invest
• Youve shipped meaningful production work not a starter ticket a real problem
• Youve made at least one technical call the team is now following (approach boundary or dont do this)
• Youve reviewed others code at a senior standard and started unblocking people
• The team treats you as a default for the harder engineering questions

• Own the hard problems ambiguous features gnarly bugs performance and the systems that would otherwise slow launch
• Shape architecture where things live what we take on and what we refuse to overbuild
• Ship production code youre still an engineer first; design without delivery isnt the job
• Raise the bar code review testing and examples that make mid-level and junior developers better
• Unblock the team the stuck PR the unclear requirement the weve been arguing about this for a week
• Think in launch terms reliability speed and judgment about what has to be right vs. what can wait

Must-haves:

• 610 years building and shipping production software (web backend or full stack) that real users depended on
• Strong across the stack enough to own a problem end to end frontend backend data and the seams between them
• Track record of technical judgment: youve designed systems killed bad ideas and lived with the consequences
• You make other engineers better through review pairing and clear writing not just by being the hero
• Strong fundamentals: Git APIs data modeling testing and production operations enough to debug whats live
• Strong async communicator you can write the design the PR and the heres why so the team can move without you in the room

Nice-to-have:

• Startup or small-team experience where you were one of a few senior engineers
• Experience with our kinds of problems: consumer web apps auth payments search or high-change codebases
• Comfortable in fast-moving ambiguous environments

• Not a ticket-taker youre expected to define the work not wait for a perfectly scoped Jira
• Not an engineering manager youll mentor and unblock; youre not hiring firing or running the people process
• Not a DevOps-only hire infra literacy is useful; the job is product software

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