# Full Stack Engineer

**Company:** [Odyssey](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/odyssey)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $160k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Next.js, AWS Lambda, AWS, APIs, Databases, Stripe, Terraform, CI/CD, Agile
**Posted:** 2026-04-27

> Builds end-to-end full-stack features for education savings platform, including eligibility systems, fund ledgers, and marketplaces using TypeScript, Next.js, and AWS. Requires 3+ years experience shipping 0-1 products in startups with entrepreneurial mindset.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own features end-to-end across the stack from ideation and technical design through implementation, deployment, and iteration.
- Build and ship 0-1 products and systems, turning ambiguous ideas into scalable, production ready solutions.
- Architect, plan and develop beautiful functional experiences for customers using **TypeScript**, **AWS Lambda**, **Next.js**, and other frameworks and languages.
- Design, write, and execute tests to ensure the robustness and reliability of applications.
- Design and implement sophisticated database models considering scalability and performance.
- Develop and maintain APIs for widespread public and internal use, enhancing mobile applications and various systems.
- Drive continuous improvement of Odyssey's Marketplace platform in collaboration with the product team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product and design to identify needs, formulate solutions, and bridge product gaps.
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and scalability, with a strong bias toward shipping and learning quickly.
- Foster transparent communication within the team, sharing both challenges and successes openly.
- Contribute to system design, platform management, code reviews, capacity planning, and overall architectural decisions.
- Take full ownership of work in production, including monitoring, debugging, and continuous improvement.
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy while proactively identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities.

## Requirements
- 3-5+ years of experience in software development.
- Proficient in **TypeScript** for building robust, scalable applications.
- Experience with early to mid-stage tech startups and enthusiasm for startup growth and dynamics.
- Built or significantly contributed to 0-1 products or features.
- Comfort with ambiguity and turning loosely defined problems into clear, actionable plans.
- Entrepreneurial mindset - thinking like an owner not just an implementer.
- Strong communication skills, comfortable pitching new approaches and concepts to the team.
- Solid understanding and experience in **Agile** practices, with flexibility to adapt to evolving project needs.
- Track record of shipping quickly and iterating based on feedback; bias towards action across the entire SDLC.

## Preferred Skills
- Experience with building scalable software using **AWS** technologies.
- Experience in highly regulated industries such as fintech, govtech or healthtech.
- Experience with double-entry ledgers, payments (**Stripe** payments a plus), and money movement.
- Experience owning services end-to-end including maintenance of infrastructure.
- Familiarity with **Terraform**, **CI/CD**, and observability tools.

## Compensation
- Salary range: **$160,000 - $180,000** depending on experience, interview performance and location.
- Benefits include Medical/Dental/Vision plan(s), health services, short term disability, unlimited PTO and more.

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