# Founding Software Engineer
**Company:** [Loula](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/loula)
**Location:** New York, NY, California
**Salary:** $150K-$185K
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Nestjs, Drizzle Orm, Postgres, Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS, Vercel, Retool
**Posted:** 2026-04-01
> Founding full-stack engineer building scalable platform from ground up at early-stage health startup. Drives product development, architecture, roadmap, and customer feedback integration with 4+ years experience.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Implement software architecture: Design and develop foundational architecture of Loula's software systems.
- Lead product development: Drive development of Loula’s platform, including front-end and back-end components.
- Define the product roadmap: Collaborate with founding team and customers to draft, develop, and refine robust product roadmap.
- Talk to customers: Conduct user interviews, shadow users, and implement feedback to improve the product.
- Provide technical leadership: Take ownership of a portion of the tech stack and ensure systems are simple, extensible, and scalable.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience building scalable systems from the ground up.
- Experience building products from the ground up at early-stage startups or as part of an early founding team.
- Prioritized, scoped, and planned new products and features in collaboration with product management, user research, and design teams.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with sales, operations, and customer success teams to build internal tools and make product improvements.
- User-centric approach, independent, proactive, mission-driven.

## Tech Stack
**Frontend:** React, Vercel  
**Backend:** TypeScript, NestJS, Drizzle ORM  
**CI/CD:** Docker/Dockerhub, GitHub Actions  
**Database:** Postgres  
**Hosting:** AWS, Aptible  
**Internal tooling:** Retool

## Benefits
- $140k+ annual salary
- Generous equity package
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage - FSA & HSA options
- Access to One Medical, Talkiatry, Peloton, Kindbody, and more
- Short & long term disability insurance, life insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Team fun: dinners, activities, retreats
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