Senior AI & Full-Stack Engineer - DevOps & Technical Leadership

We are a dynamic startup focused on developing innovative software products, web applications, AI-powered tools, integrations, and business automations across various projects. Our hybrid delivery model blends internal ownership with outsourced development, requiring strong technical leadership to transform diverse contributions into reliable, maintainable software. Central to our approach is AI-assisted and agentic development, enabling us to move quickly while making sound technical decisions. We are seeking a Senior AI & Full-Stack Engineer to join us early, take significant responsibility, and grow alongside the company. This full-time, long-term remote role involves end-to-end project ownership, from business requirements through deployment and ongoing operation, across multiple products and initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain full-stack web applications, including frontend and backend components.
- Build AI-powered features, integrations, internal tools, and business automations.
- Utilize AI coding assistants and agentic workflows effectively, ensuring thorough testing and human review.
- Translate business requirements into clear implementation tasks with verifiable acceptance criteria.
- Design APIs, business logic, authentication, authorization, and third-party integrations.
- Manage database schemas, migrations, query optimization, backups, and recovery procedures.
- Administer Linux servers, overseeing application services, permissions, updates, networking, and troubleshooting.
- Build and maintain Docker environments, including container networking, persistent storage, configuration, and health checks.
- Manage DNS records, domain routing, TLS certificates, and reverse proxies.
- Maintain CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and related build agents or runners.
- Execute deployments with migration checks, rollback procedures, and post-deployment verification.
- Investigate and resolve production incidents, addressing root causes.
- Coordinate outsourced developers and specialists, clarifying requirements, reviewing deliverables, and managing dependencies.
- Mentor developers through code reviews, demonstrations, and constructive feedback.
- Ensure solutions are proportionate to problems, controlling complexity, infrastructure costs, and maintenance overhead.

Required Qualifications

- Proven senior-level experience delivering and maintaining production web applications.
- Strong frontend skills with modern frameworks, JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Solid backend development expertise, including secure APIs, integrations, validation, and error handling.
- Practical experience integrating AI or large language model capabilities, managing output quality, failures, latency, and costs.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants or agentic development workflows, with independently verified results.
- Strong SQL and relational database skills, including migrations, indexing, performance tuning, and backup/recovery.
- Proficient Linux administration and Docker deployment experience.
- Working knowledge of DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, firewalls, ports, and reverse proxies.
- Practical CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and familiarity with Azure DevOps repositories and pipelines.
- Expertise in Git workflows, pull requests, code reviews, and release management.
- Previous experience leading development teams or coordinating technical delivery.
- Demonstrated mentoring ability and clear communication of technical decisions.
- Experience working with outsourced developers, contractors, or distributed teams.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize competing demands, and make sound decisions within a startup budget.
- Commitment to a long-term, full-time role with increasing responsibility.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

- Experience building products or engineering processes in early-stage startups.
- Ability to manage multiple applications or services simultaneously.
- Skill in evaluating outsourced work for correctness, security, maintainability, and operational readiness.
- Experience developing AI agents, tool integrations, retrieval workflows, or reliable automation.
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL and multi-service Docker environments.
- Experience establishing deployment standards, monitoring, incident response, and documentation.
- Proven track record of helping junior developers improve through structured mentoring.

Joining at this stage offers a unique opportunity to influence software architecture, delivery organization, and team development. Compensation will align with startup budgets, experience, and responsibilities, with substantial growth potential as the company expands. Career progression may lead to roles such as Technical Lead, Engineering Lead, or Head of Engineering, based on results and leadership capabilities.

We offer a fully remote, full-time position with broad ownership across software, AI integration, infrastructure, and delivery. You will collaborate closely with startup leadership and have the chance to build and mentor a distributed engineering team. Our remote work setup includes activity monitoring tools, which will be explained during recruitment; applicants should be comfortable with this arrangement.

We encourage early applications to discuss how you can shape our technical direction. Please prepare a CV and a brief overview covering your contributions to production applications, AI features implemented, Linux/Docker/database/deployment responsibilities, leadership or mentoring experience, coordination of outsourced development, earliest start date, and salary expectations. Public portfolios and GitHub links are welcome, but please avoid sharing confidential information.