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Senior Full Stack Engineer (Team Lead)

seed-stage hospitality tech startup New York City, NY Direct Hire $160,000 - $240,000

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced full stack engineer to lead a small team while maintaining strong individual contribution. The role involves driving a complete platform rebuild from legacy systems to a modern TypeScript architecture in a fast-paced seed-stage environment.

Essential Functions

  • Ship complete features across the stack, including schema migrations, backend services, and frontend components in a TypeScript monorepo
  • Lead the migration from a legacy no-code platform to a hand-crafted TypeScript architecture, establishing patterns for future engineers
  • Mentor and guide a team of 3-5 engineers through code review, architectural decisions, and pair programming while maintaining significant individual contributor responsibilities
  • Establish AI-assisted development workflows using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot as standard practice
  • Integrate with third-party systems including property management platforms, smart locks, payment processors, and telemetry pipelines
  • Build for a multi-region product with data residency requirements

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of production TypeScript experience
  • 2+ years leading engineers in a player-coach capacity
  • Experience building and shipping production B2B SaaS applications end-to-end
  • Strong skills with relational databases including schema design, migrations, and query optimization
  • Demonstrated experience with AI coding agents and multi-agent workflows in daily development
  • Experience with system migrations or rebuild projects
  • Backend-leaning full stack capabilities with infrastructure, API, and React frontend experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience scaling engineering teams at seed or Series A startups
  • Domain experience in vertical SaaS, hospitality, or proptech
  • Experience with monorepo architecture and end-to-end type safety
  • Familiarity with IoT telemetry, event pipelines, or offline-first mobile development

Technical Skills

  • TypeScript
  • NestJS
  • Node.js
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • Turborepo
  • Next.js App Router
  • React Native
  • Prisma
  • Row-Level Security
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Edge Computing
  • Background Job Queues

Education & Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $160,000 - $240,000. Compensation based on experience and qualifications.

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