Staff Fullstack Engineer
Staff IC full-stack engineer to set technical direction for a small team building a React Native + Node/Go social app on the open AT Protocol. Requires 10+ years experience, deep React/React Native expertise, and daily use of agentic AI coding tools.
About the job
Key Responsibilities
- Cross-Stack Engineering: Work across the entire stack, including a React Native app (iOS, Android, web) and Node.js/TypeScript and Go backend services.
- System Design: Build foundational systems and make critical technical design decisions that accelerate overall development speed; Own large, ambiguous problems from conception to completion.
- Setting the Standard: Establish the bar for excellence in system architecture, code reviews, and shipping velocity.
- Team Multiplier: Raise the technical standard for the entire team and mentor others on how to gain maximum leverage from modern engineering tooling.
- Team Mentorship: Mentor a small squad (2–4 engineers), setting technical direction and upholding a high bar for code quality through mentorship and rigorous code reviews.
- High-Fidelity Feature Delivery: Deliver major features to users that actively define the future direction of the product.
- Ecosystem Contribution: Actively contribute to the open-source AT Protocol and Bluesky ecosystem.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience (5+ in management) building consumer-scale products and integrating AI coding tools to act as a force multiplier for the team
- Deeply experienced in TypeScript, React, and React Native (iOS/Android/Web), with a focus on motion-rich, high-polish interfaces
- Made major technical decisions that mattered, and lived long enough with the consequences to know which ones were right
- Already use agentic coding tools every day, and have specific, opinionated views about where they create leverage and where they break down
- Proven ability to own complex areas end-to-end—from scoping and sequencing to delivering in fast-paced, autonomous environments
- UI/UX-focused engineer who understands social app mechanics and sweats the details of the user experience
Nice-to-Haves
- Startup or social media product experience
- Been a founder or part of an early team
- Worked with distributed or federated systems, real-time feeds, or content delivery at scale
- Familiarity with the AT Protocol, or a real itch to work on open protocols and open source
- Production Go, and experience with SQL or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, Scylla/Cassandra)
Skills
TypeScript, React, React Native, Node.js, Go, iOS, Android, Postgres, Cassandra, Scylla
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