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Lead and own critical features and subsystems end-to-end - from design through to deployment. You will make key technical decisions, set priorities, and deliver fast without sacrificing quality.
Build, maintain, and scale our marketplace backend including order matching / order-book logic with concurrency, correctness, and speed in mind; transaction flows, payments, reconciliation; ensuring data integrity, auditability, resilience.
Build and refine our frontend / UI/UX using TypeScript + Next.js: translate designer UX flows into high quality components; optimize performance (SSR vs client side, code splitting, lazy loading, etc.).
Work deeply with PostgreSQL: data modeling, query optimization, indexing, schema design, ensuring performance as data and load grow.
Develop and improve internal tools (“Nimbus”) for accounting, logistics, operations dashboards, fraud detection, monitoring, etc.
Lead small teams or mentor other developers: provide code reviews, help unblock teammates, set best practices.
Drive process improvements, technical architecture, testing strategy, observability. Be hands-on in incidents or urgent problems.
Have 3+ years of full stack engineering experience (or equivalent), especially in startup or fast-paced environments.
Are comfortable leading yourself and others - owning features / systems, guiding teammates, making decisions.
Are hands-on: you write and ship code, prototype, fix bugs, and also think about architecture and scalability.
Strong front-end experience with TypeScript + Next.js, good eye for UX / UI, performance, accessibility.
Strong backend experience: Node.js (or similar), working with PostgreSQL, comfortable with designing schema, writing efficient queries, handling transactions and consistency.
Excellent problem solver: you understand trade-offs between speed, maintainability, architecture, and are pragmatic.
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Mid · 3+ years experience
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