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Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: Remote

Team: Forward Deployed Engineering

Type: Full-time

About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you sit at the intersection of engineering and go-to-market. You're the technical owner of customer outcomes — hands-on in the code, embedded in the customer relationship, and responsible for turning an edge intelligence platform into measurable performance wins for top ecommerce brands.

This is not a support role. You'll be debugging JavaScript in production, writing transform scripts, configuring caching rules, and troubleshooting complex CDN behavior across Shopify, SFCC, and custom storefronts. You'll own the full technical lifecycle from onboarding through optimization, working directly with merchant engineering teams and translating their stack into the platform.

About the product

This is a rapidly growing B2B SaaS product designed to help ecommerce brands drive conversion and performance. The platform uses smart caching and a globally distributed edge network to reduce latency, improve Core Web Vitals, and deliver measurable revenue uplift.

The Edge Delivery Engine accelerates ecommerce storefronts by serving fully cached pages from 310+ edge locations — each within 50ms of most of the world's population. Rather than replacing a merchant's existing stack, it works alongside it: intercepting requests at the edge, serving pre-cached HTML at sub-200ms TTFB, and applying intelligent transform scripts to handle personalization, A/B tests, and session context without breaking existing functionality.

As an FDE, you'll configure caching rules, write and debug transform scripts, diagnose TTFB regressions, and optimize cache hit rates to drive measurable performance improvements.

What you'll do

• Write, review, and debug transform scripts that modify storefront responses at the edge
• Monitor customer trials and react quickly to issues or anomalies
• Use browser DevTools and observability tools to diagnose caching issues, TTFB regressions, and personalization conflicts
• Own the technical relationship with a portfolio of merchant accounts
• Build internal tooling, documentation, and playbooks to scale operations
• Provide product feedback based on real-world use cases

What we're looking for

• 2–5 years of experience in a technical customer-facing or engineering role (solutions engineering, forward deployed engineering, full stack, etc.)
• Strong JavaScript skills (reading, writing, debugging in browser context)
• Solid understanding of web fundamentals: HTTP, caching, CDNs, DNS, browser rendering
• Experience with Shopify storefronts (Liquid, Hydrogen, headless) is a plus
• Familiarity with enterprise ecommerce platforms is a bonus
• Ability to work in production environments and troubleshoot under pressure
• Strong communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with edge platforms (e.g., Cloudflare Workers)
• Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation tools
• Experience with performance optimization (Core Web Vitals, LCP, TTFB)
• Experience collaborating in Git-based environments

Every year, millions of digital lives vanish. Social media platforms freeze accounts or delete data after a period of inactivity, because of death. Families lose thousands of photos, years of thoughts, and the voice of those they loved-simply because no tool exists to rescue them.

In Ukraine, this is a crisis of national memory. For families of fallen heroes and millions of displaced people, a digital memorial isn't a luxury; it’s the only way to stay close. We are building the "Digital Vault" that turns fragile social media archives into a permanent family legacy.

The Technical Challenge (What you will build)

We have the concept, the design, and the waitlist. We need you to build the Digital Archeology Engine.

1. The Parser (The "Moat"): Build a system to ingest massive, messy ZIP archives from Meta/Google, extract metadata, and auto-reconstruct a chronological life story.
2. AI Narrative: Use LLMs to transform raw data into a human-readable biography.

3. The Phygital Bridge: Create a web-first ecosystem where scanning a QR code at a memorial stone or on a photo frame instantly opens a rich, lightning-fast media sanctuary-no app download required.

    

The Tech Stack (Flexible, but leaning toward)

• Web: Next.js (SSR is critical for SEO and instant loading).
• Backend: Node.js / Python (for AI pipelines) / PostgreSQL.
• Mobile: PWA or React Native (shared logic).

• Infrastructure: AWS S3 (secure, long-term vaulting).

   

Who you are

• You ship. You’ve launched real products to real users. You care more about "working" than "perfect."
• You own the stack. At this stage, there is no "that’s not my department." You are the department.
• You understand "The Why." If you’ve ever looked at a photo of a lost loved one and wished you could hear their story again, you are the right person.

• You are an Architect. You aren't building for the next quarter; you are building a vault meant to last for decades.

   

What we are NOT looking for

• Part-time enthusiasts or "consultants."
• Architects who want to spend 6 months drawing diagrams before shipping code.

• Anyone who needs a 50-page spec to start. We move fast and iterate.

   

The Deal

• Real Co-founder status: You have a seat at the table for strategy, fundraising, and product vision. Your name is on the company.

• Sovereign Equity: We are honest about the sacrifice of deferred salary, so we are ready to give part of ownership.

   

How to Apply

Email with the subject: "Tech Co-founder - E-Memory"

Tell us:

1. Why this mission matters to you personally.
2. A link to something you’ve shipped.
3. The hardest technical challenge you see in building a "permanent" archive.

Meet Elbax! We make cool mobile apps, and people have downloaded our stuff over 50 million times. Our favorites to make? Photo/video editors (some even use fancy AI) and Health&Fitness apps.

Why do we think our apps rock? Simple: We've got some of the best people making them. We want every person on our team to grow, feel important, and be proud of what they do.

The Job:

We are looking for a User Acquisition whose responsibilities will include:

- Developing and implementing strategies to optimize the current mobile product range as well as successfully launching new products into the market;

- Steering a robust marketing team of 6 professionals;

- Demonstrating profound understanding and active participation in user acquisition, including preparing tech infrastructures for traffic procurement;

- Playing a proactive role in fine-tuning product market positioning;

- Analyzing the market to identify relevant acquisition strategies, researching competitors, and identifying potential growth opportunities.

We expect you to:

- At least 2 years of experience in the same position;

- Profound understanding of attribution methodologies and models for advertising campaigns and seasoned experience with User Acquisition;

- Advanced analytical skills;

- Experience in managing substantial marketing budgets;

- Proven track record in team leadership;

- English proficiency at an Upper-intermediate level or above.

Why Join Us?

✔️Portfolio of mobile products in trending niches with high product performance.

✔️No bureaucracy - we are flexible and quick in decision-making.

✔️Bonuses based on performance.

✔️Freedom of decision-making - if a new idea/strategy is justified, we immediately start working on it.

Moon Active is one of the world's top mobile game companies, our teams leverage cutting-edge technologies to craft fun and interactive games enjoyed by millions worldwide. We produce exciting and engaging entertainment for players across the globe and pride ourselves on developing top-quality casual games that invite and allow players to connect with one another.

As a BackEnd Developer, you will be working in a scrum team implementing new features and improving existing code for our most popular game. We are looking for a Strong developer to join an engineering team that is responsible for building complex, high-scale, and real-time systems.

We work with Node.js/Redis/Neo4j/K8s/Microservices, 24/7 serving 100k req/sec, 200k+ req/sec at peaks, Redis used as the main storage, handling terabytes of data and 200M ops/min.
 

Responsibilities:

• Delivering new game features every few weeks;
• Building distributed systems and microservices;
• Mainly developing real-time mobile game server with Node.js and Redis;
• Working with the Kyiv-based cross-functional team that also includes Unity developers and QAs.

Requirements:

• Backend development experience (any OOP language, ex. Node.js, Java, C#, etc.);
• Familiarity with Node.js - advantage;
• Willingness to operate within an AI-first approach for development productivity and feature integration;
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture;
• Experience with NoSQL databases (ex. Redis);
• Experience with Backend development of real-time web services;
• Experience in a high scale system will be a plus;
• Experience working with Scrum teams will be a plus;
• Good spoken and written English is a MUST.

Benefits:

Why join Moon Active? 

• Be part of a leading global mobile gaming company with a unique product enjoyed by millions;
• Thrive in an exceptional, innovative, and dynamic environment;
• Enjoy full transparency and open communication with talented colleagues across teams;
• Take advantage of tremendous opportunities for professional growth and career advancement within a rapidly expanding company;
• Influence and help build personalized product experiences that impact millions of users worldwide.

We offer:

• Generous compensation; paid vacation and sick leave;
• Extensive medical and life insurance coverage for you and your family;
• CrossFit & running classes at the office and MultiSport card;  
• Comfortable and modern office located on Królewska 16 street in Warsaw;
• Free daily breakfasts and lunches, and a fully stocked kitchen with snacks and fruits;
• Latest tech equipment, including macOS devices;
• Training & Development/Tuition reimbursement;
• Friend Referral Program with generous bonuses;
• Fun and collaborative workplace culture with regular Friday Happy Hours and team gatherings;
• Relocation bonus for candidates moving to Warsaw;
• Bicycle and Car parking.

We Play to Win! We Play it Smart! We Play as a Team!

We are committed to investing in our employees and fostering a workplace that champions innovation, creativity, and collaboration. At Moon Active, we empower our team members to unleash their potential and achieve remarkable results every day. We encourage bold decision-making and believe that every individual has a significant impact on our success. Join us and level up your career in a supportive and high-achieving environment!

About the Company

We are building AI systems that combine multilayered, scalable knowledge graphs with advanced reasoning agents to analyze and understand highly complex knowledge domains with scholarly precision.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience to design and scale the backend infrastructure powering our AI platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable backend services and multi-tenant SaaS systems
• Design and operate high-throughput data pipelines (batch and streaming)
• Build APIs and services integrating LLM inference, retrieval systems, and knowledge graphs
• Productionize research-grade AI systems into reliable distributed systems

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience
• Strong experience with data pipelines and SaaS architectures
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native environments
• Fluent English

Preferred Qualifications

• Go and/or Scala experience
• Hands-on experience with LLM systems (RAG, model serving, evaluation)
• Experience with knowledge graphs, vector databases, or hybrid retrieval architectures
• MS in Computer Science

What We Offer

Technical Innovation: Lead novel neuro-symbolic architectures with cutting-edge research access

Work Environment: Flexible arrangements, international travel opportunities

StrongLifts is growing and hiring an experienced iOS developer to join our remote team.

This is a unique opportunity to make an impact on an app that changes people's bodies and lives. As our primary iOS developer, you'll own the entire iOS codebase and be responsible for shaping the future of our app. We offer a full-time, remote position with flexible hours.

StrongLifts is a fully remote company, and this is a remote job. It is open to anyone located in Europe (between UTC-1 and UTC+4).

About StrongLifts

StrongLifts is a top-rated workout app with thousands of paying subscribers and over 200,000 five-star reviews worldwide (4.9-star rating).

Since launching in 2011, our growth has been driven by listening to our users and building what they need to get results. We're 100% self-funded and profitable.

Our mission is to help people get stronger by making strength training simple. We want our app to handle all the thinking so users can focus more on lifting. Our team is small and values building a great product that helps people make progress in their lives.

Benefits

• $3,000–5,000/mo gross, based on experience
• Full-time role with steady, long-term work (no contract hopping)
• 100% remote - work from wherever you feel most productive
• Flexible hours - set your own schedule as long as you get results
• Impact - your work will be used by thousands of people worldwide
• Minimal meetings - plenty of time to focus on coding
• Great team - we're very selective about who we work with
• 20 paid holidays per year, plus your local public holidays

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience building and launching iOS apps
• Experience with Git, pull requests, code review workflows
• Highly skilled at writing clean, maintainable, and reliable code
• Strong SwiftUI skills. UIKit knowledge is a plus for maintaining legacy screens
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and app architecture
• Excellent English communication skills (both spoken and written)
• Located between UTC-1 and UTC+4 for time zone alignment
• Available full-time

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of iOS
• Design and build new app features
• Troubleshoot and fix bugs reported by users
• Ensure the best performance and stability of our app
• Maintain code quality (reviews, cleanups, refactoring, etc)
• Keep our app updated with new iOS versions, features, and devices
• Ship through GitHub PRs and release via Xcode Cloud to TestFlight / App Store
• Maintain technical documentation

Tech Stack

Our iOS codebase is modern, clean, and well-maintained. We use the latest Apple frameworks and best practices, with a strong focus on code quality, testing, and automation.

The app is built natively in Swift and is mostly SwiftUI, with some UIKit. Deep experience with Swift and SwiftUI is required. We also use Swift Concurrency, Combine, CoreData, RevenueCat, WatchKit, HealthKit, XCTest, etc. The backend uses Firebase (Auth, RTDB, Firestore). Experience with these additional technologies is a plus, but not required if you're a fast learner.

Team

You'll work closely with our Android developer to keep both apps consistent so users get the same features, logic, and algorithms on both platforms. You'll also work with our founder and designer to understand user needs and advise on technical feasibility. You'll work with QA and support to investigate and fix bugs. We communicate mostly in writing and minimize meetings. You'll have plenty of time to focus on coding and building a great app.

How to apply

Our goal is to find the best iOS developer with the right skills who fits well with our team. We designed our hiring process to be fair, efficient, and respectful of your time.

We’ll start with a short online test (~20 min). This saves us both time, so interviews are only with candidates who have the required skills. If you pass, you'll be invited to a live coding interview with one of our engineers (~30 min). Successful candidates will then move to a third interview to go over your work history (~30min). Finalists will do a short paid trial on real tasks from our codebase. 

We’re organized so the process will move quickly. We’re looking for someone who can start as soon as possible.

We’re a fast‑growing, mission‑driven company building next‑generation training and a 3D immersive training platform. Our customers critical‑infrastructure organizations that need operators to perform better, faster, and more safely in the real world.

We’re looking for a Senior UX Designer who loves turning complexity into clarity. You’ll shape the experience across multiple products to help our users to get from learning to readiness quickly and confidently. If you want to design products with real‑world impact, move fast, and help define a category, this is your role.

What You’ll Do?

• Own the experience for key flows across our portfolio - set UX direction, unify patterns, and raise the bar for usability.
• Simplify complex workflows into intuitive journeys for trainees, instructors, and administrators.
• Prototype quickly and iterate with PMs, engineers, and domain experts; ship improvements on short cycles.
• Champion consistency - evolve a lightweight design system that scales across products and surfaces (2D/3D).
• Bring the user voice - turn field feedback and observations into clear, actionable design decisions.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 5–8+ years in UX/Product Design with end‑to‑end product ownership.
• Portfolio showing clear thinking, interaction craft, and impact (not just visuals).
• Comfortable working in dynamic, high‑growth environments with evolving requirements.
• Ability to collaborate across disciplines and communicate decisions simply and persuasively.
• Big advantage: familiarity with 3D design or gaming environment

Why Join Us

• Real impact: your work helps people perform better in high‑stakes situations.
• High growth: a chance to shape product and process in a company that moves fast.
• Scope & ownership: influence the UX across multiple products and user types.
• Team & culture: pragmatic, collaborative, and biased toward action.

About Us

We are a product company building AI agents and digital employees for modern businesses. We automate repetitive operations so teams can focus on creative and strategic work. We're forming our core team and looking for a marketer who builds systems, not just campaigns.

Your Mission

Build a marketing machine that generates a predictable flow of qualified B2B and B2C leads and rapidly validates product hypotheses through real traffic and paying customers.

What You'll Do

- Define positioning and messaging for key segments (founders, C-level, SMB, mid-market) 

- Design and run omnichannel funnels: Meta, Google, LinkedIn, email, content, partnerships 

- Run A/B tests on landing pages, offers, pricing and onboarding flows - Set up full funnel tracking and analytics: CAC, LTV, ROMI, conversion by step 

- Own budgets and reallocate spend based on performance data 

- Collaborate with sales and product: share campaign insights, prepare enablement materials

Requirements

- 5+ years in digital marketing / growth at a tech company: SaaS, B2B software or mobile 

- Proven track record of growing a product from near zero to repeatable sales 

- Hands-on experience with Meta Ads, Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads — Strong funnel and CRO skills — you know how to move numbers from impression to paid 

- Comfortable building dashboards in GA4, Mixpanel, Amplitude or similar 

- Upper-Intermediate+ English, written and spoken 

- Experience with US or EU markets is a strong plus

You're a Great Fit If You

- Think like a founder: unit economics matter more to you than vanity metrics 

- Love running fast experiments over building perfect long-term campaigns 

- Are genuinely excited about AI, agents and automation 

- Can create structure in ambiguity 

- without waiting to be told what to do

What We Offer

- Direct collaboration with the founder and core product/engineering team 

- Real influence on product direction and go-to-market strategy 

- Remote-first, flexible schedule, outcome-focused culture 

- Competitive salary + potential equity or profit share after proving mutual fit

US Company is searching for a Senior Java Developer with strong experience in developing and maintaining enterprise microservices-based platforms. Interesting long-term project (3+ years), distributed team, full-time, official contract. Remote work, European business hours.
 

Brief project description:
The platform is a set of microservices deployed on cloud infrastructure and partially - legacy code, supporting core business processes in delivery service across Europe. The role focuses on performance, security, maintainability, and implementing new features in a high-availability production environment.

Main Requirements:

• Strong experience in building scalable microservices: 8+ years
• Solid understanding of event-driven systems and API design
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Knowledge of cloud deployment (AWS, Azure, OpenShift)
• Ownership of assigned modules and code quality

Tech Skills:

• Microservices architecture, REST APIs, message brokers
• Refactoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting production issues
• Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Security best practices for backend services

Programming Languages & Frameworks:

• Java 8–21: 10+ years
• Spring Boot / Quarkus: 10+ years
• SQL (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra): 8+ years
• RabbitMQ, Kafka: 7+ years

Work conditions:

• Distributed team, remote work
• Scrum approach, 5–6 team members / team
• Full-time (40 hours per week), European business hours
• Official contract: salary, sick-leave days, holidays, vacations

Hiring process:

• Preliminary interview – 25-30 mins
• Internal tech interview (backend, Java, cloud) – 1 hour
• Interview with team and Tech Lead – 1 hour

Team in UA is looking for an experienced and highly talented Senior Back-End Software Engineer to join the ambitious AI-first team working on a product in the FinTech domain. 

Requirements: We are seeking a candidate with:

• Experience Leveraging AI: You understand and have experienced the great benefits of using agentic AI tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor to automate routine development tasks and to be more productive. 
• Product mindset: Your focus is on delivering a great product that adds value to users. You understand and enjoy the unique challenges of making business and technology tradeoffs. 
• Proven Expertise: 5+ years of commercial software development experience, primarily as a Java backend developer within product teams.
• Educational Background: A BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong command of Go programming language, ORM frameworks, relational databases, and SQL.
• Systems Design & Architecture: Solid experience in designing systems and willingness to lead the engineering process using modern methodologies.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Services (GCP) and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Terraform.
• Leadership & Communication: A collaborative team player with strong communication abilities.
• Self-Organization: Ability to estimate work, commit to deadlines, and deliver high-quality code.
• Adaptability: Ready to thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
• Language Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary: Annual performance review with potential for compensation adjustments.
• Flexible Work Environment: Option to work remotely or from a company-sponsored co-working space.
• State-of-the-Art Equipment: Company-provided laptop, monitor(s), and other peripherals to ensure a comfortable and efficient workspace.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Includes 17 business days of paid time off, 5 paid sick leave days, and more.

Professional Development: Partial or full sponsorship for English classes, relevant technology courses, and conference attendance.

We are a professional SEO company working with international clients in highly competitive iGaming and casino niches.
Our team of specialists creates and scales SEO strategies for project portfolios where results and a systematic approach truly matter.
We continuously improve our processes, implement cutting-edge optimization methods, and are looking for a Head of SEO who will help us scale the direction and build teams for effective project growth.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement SEO strategies for project portfolios and international brands
• Build, manage, and scale teams of SEO specialists, team leads, and experts of various profiles
• Optimize internal processes to scale the SEO direction and increase overall efficiency
• Work with highly competitive geographies, continuously improving approaches and adapting to search engine algorithm updates
• Collaborate with all key departments of the company to ensure effective traffic monetization
   

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in SEO
• 2+ years of experience managing SEO teams or SEO directions
• Experience working with large-scale SEO projects and multi-brand structures
• Strong technical SEO expertise (indexing, redirects, canonicals, server responses)
• Practical understanding of Google Core Updates, E-E-A-T, and anti-spam filters
• Experience setting tasks for developers and controlling their execution
• Understanding of a performance-driven approach to SEO and traffic monetization
• Experience in iGaming, casino, affiliate, or other highly competitive niches will be a strong advantage
• Strong analytical and strategic mindset combined with a realistic assessment of team resources and capabilities
   

What We Offer

• A key role in developing the SEO direction of an international holding
• High level of autonomy in strategic decision-making and the opportunity to implement your own ideas
• Long-term cooperation with a stable and fast-growing company
• Direct support from company owners and a senior team with deep SEO expertise
• Flexible cooperation format (in-house or contract), modern tools, and all necessary resources to execute ambitious plans
  
  📩 Ready to build a high-impact affiliate program from the ground up? Send us your CV — let’s talk!

Our platform simplifies the entire journey—from selecting a product, to purchasing, connecting, and launching it. We aim to challenge outdated and complex processes such as DNS configuration, subscription management, switching between products or add-ons, and more. By leveraging modern technology, we remove complexity behind the scenes and provide customers with an intuitive, world-class experience.

This platform will unify how customers interact with digital products, making complex operations easy for anyone and redefining what “seamless” means in our industry and beyond.

Your expertise:

• Solid proficiency with JavaScript (ES6+)
• Basic to intermediate TypeScript knowledge and willingness to grow
• Experience with Node.js server-side development
• Knowledge and experience with Docker
• Practical experience working with SQL (queries, schemas, indexing basics)
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• Understanding of asynchronous programming in Node.js
• Awareness of clean code principles and maintainable coding practices
• Understanding of Object-Oriented programming
• Basic understanding of SOLID principles
• Experience writing unit tests (integration tests is a bonus)
• Understanding of HTTP protocol
• Basic familiarity with common web security threats and mitigation
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Willingness to work across all stages of the application lifecycle: development, environments, deployments, maintenance
• Systematic approach to problem-solving

Will definitely be a plus: 

• Experience with another programming language besides JS / TS
• Basic understanding of client-side concepts:
  • event loop, micro/macro tasks
  • browser as a platform and devtools
• Experience with ReactJS and its ecosystem
• Competent English (reading, writing, speaking)
  
  You will be involved into:
• Participate in full-cycle development of backend features (and occasionally frontend)
• Support and maintain existing functionality
• Contribute engineering expertise to help deliver new product functionality
• Implement features according to product vision with proper test coverage
• Validate functional and non-functional requirements
• Collaborate with business stakeholders when needed to deliver high-quality functionality

Dear candidates, please note that we give preference to developers from Vinnytsia.

Who are we?

Skai helps thousands of the most successful brands in the world reach customers and grow their brands on digital channels. The company offers best-of-breed advertising technology on the most impactful, highest-ROI media channels as well as a suite of data-driven insights, planning and measurement solutions to complement and maximize return from our solutions.
We’re 700 employees strong and growing every day! ~$7 billion in ad spend being managed on the SkaiTM platform every year, driving hundreds of billions in commerce decisions and sales transactions.
Established in 2006, we are a thriving organization, with a unique, vibrant startup culture with an incredible track record of success and an amazing future in sight!

Technical Skills:

Hands-on experience (5+ years) with Java object-oriented design and implementation;

Spring ecosystem: Spring Boot, Spring Web, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Scheduler;

Knowledge of web environments, REST API’s, Web services, Unit Testing, Java Build Tools;

Experience in usage of data storage: Redis, MySQL;

Experience in using message brokers: Kafka, RabbitMQ;

Knowledge of basic AWS stuff: EC2, RDS, S3, Load Balancer;

High-load / scalable systems design, performance tuning;

Testing: unit, integration, contract testing, test automation;

Security: authentication/authorization, OAuth2/JWT, secure coding practices;

Experience with Git.

Architectural Skills:

System architecture design: defining components, boundaries, integration patterns, and deployment topologies;

Microservices design: API contracts, data ownership, and inter-service communication patterns;

Scalability & performance: capacity planning, load testing, caching strategies, and performance tuning;

Reliability & resilience: circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, graceful degradation, and failover strategies

Observability & operability: logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting;

Leadership Skills:

Code quality & standards: enforce best practices, testing strategies, and maintainable code guidelines;

Project & delivery leadership: estimation, risk identification, prioritization, and driving timely delivery;

Communication: clear, concise technical communication to engineers and non-technical stakeholders;

Delegation & empowerment: assign ownership, trust engineers, and unblock teams rather than micromanage;

Conflict resolution & influence: navigate trade-offs, resolve disagreements, and build consensus;

Strategic thinking: roadmap contribution, technical vision, and aligning engineering work with business goals;

Continuous improvement: retrospectives, process optimization, and fostering a culture of learning.

Senior Backend / Automation Engineer — Data Intelligence Platform

Qail Labs Inc | Remote | Contract-to-hire

We're building a social media intelligence platform that collects and analyzes public content across audience segments in real time. We need an engineer who can own the infrastructure, data collection pipeline, and backend.

What you'll do

Build and maintain the data collection infrastructure: provisioning servers, managing browser-based scrapers, and automating data pipelines at scale. Design the backend API, data storage layer, and integrate with the Next.js dashboard. Monitor system health and scale from prototype to production.

Must have

• Python (FastAPI or similar async framework)
• Browser automation at scale (Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium)
• Residential proxy management — rotation strategies, sticky sessions, IP health monitoring
• Web scraping at production scale — handling rate limits, retries, and data quality
• CAPTCHA solving service integration (2Captcha, CapMonster, or similar)
• Docker / Docker Compose on bare metal or cloud (Hetzner, AWS, etc.)
• PostgreSQL and Redis

Strong plus

• LLM API integration (OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek)
• Next.js / React
• Experience with social media data collection
• Disposable email/phone verification pipelines

How we work

Small team, milestone-based delivery with live demos. You'll work directly with the founder. We move fast and ship weekly.

Compensation

Competitive, based on experience. Contract starting immediately with path to ongoing engagement.

This is not a coding role. This is a systems-of-systems role. 

If you build things with AI, this posting isn't for you. 

If you build the systems that govern how AI builds things — keep reading.

What This Role Is

LifeChef is a HIPAA-compliant healthcare platform delivering Medically Tailored Meals. Our engineering team builds on a methodology called Enso — a spec-driven, AI-augmented development framework where every feature starts with a specification, gets built with AI assistance, and is validated against defined criteria.

Enso v1 is linear: spec → generate → validate → ship. It works. But it's hitting scaling limits — the document graph grows with every feature, validation complexity compounds, and the process requires increasing human oversight to maintain quality. This is a familiar problem in any AI-assisted workflow that outgrows its initial architecture.

We need someone to take Enso from v1 to v2: a true agentic system where specialized AI agents handle research, specification validation, code generation oversight, quality assurance, and deviation detection — with structured autonomy, clear escalation paths, and human-in-the-loop at defined decision points, not everywhere.

You would partner directly with the CTO (who designed the current methodology and has strong opinions about where it needs to go) to architect, build, and maintain this system. The first 30 days are heavy collaboration — translating vision into working architecture. After that, you own the evolution of the process while the CTO focuses on product and team.

What You'd Actually Build and Maintain

• Agent topology for the development lifecycle: research agents, spec validation agents, code review agents, compliance checking agents, red-team/adversarial agents — each with defined boundaries, confidence thresholds, and escalation triggers
• Spec-to-code reconciliation system: agents that validate whether implemented code actually satisfies the specification, flagging deviations and ambiguities rather than silently passing
• Multi-model orchestration strategy: routing different tasks to different models based on cost, capability, and risk (expensive models for reasoning, cheap models for classification, open-source where it fits)
• Structured output validation: ensuring agent outputs are parseable, auditable, and actionable — not just "LLM said it's fine"
• Governance and escalation framework: what agents decide autonomously vs. what requires human sign-off, circuit breakers for low-confidence situations, audit logging for compliance
• Evolution engine: the system should improve itself — tracking where agents fail, where human overrides happen, and feeding that back into prompt refinement and architecture changes
• Integration with existing CI/CD: the agentic layer hooks into GitHub Actions, automated testing (Vitest), PHI scanning, secret detection, and compliance validation already in the pipeline

This is infrastructure that the development team operates within. You're not shipping product features — you're shipping the machine that makes product development faster, safer, and more consistent.

What We Need From You

Hard requirements:

• You have designed or built at least one agentic system where AI agents operate with structured autonomy — multi-step workflows with validation, error handling, and escalation. Not just API wrappers. Not just chatbots.
• You understand agent topology as a design problem: which agents need to exist, what their boundaries are, how they communicate, how you prevent cascading failures.
• You have hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, custom implementations — the specific tool matters less than the depth of understanding).
• You think in terms of eval frameworks and validation: how do you know if an agent's output is good? How do you measure drift? How do you build confidence scoring that's actually useful?
• You understand multi-model strategies: when to use which model, cost/capability tradeoffs, how to tier your model usage so you're not burning expensive tokens on classification tasks.
• You can work in both Python and TypeScript, or at minimum are comfortable in one and willing to operate in the other. Our product stack is TypeScript-first but agentic tooling often lives in Python.
• Strong written communication. This role involves heavy async documentation of architectural decisions, process design, and system behavior.

What sets you apart:

• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) — building custom MCP servers, tool-use architectures
• Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI-native development tools as part of your own workflow (you should be using what you're building systems around)
• Experience in healthcare, fintech, or regulated environments where AI outputs must be auditable and compliant
• Understanding of prompt engineering at the systems level — not "write a good prompt" but "design a prompt architecture that's maintainable, versionable, and testable"
• You've thought seriously about adversarial validation — red-team agents, cross-model verification, structured disagreement as a quality signal
• You have opinions about where agentic AI is overhyped and where it genuinely works, and you can defend those opinions with specifics

What we explicitly don't require:

• A portfolio of 50 agentic projects. The field is young. One deep project with real orchestration depth beats ten shallow ones.
• Product development skills. You won't be building UI or shipping user-facing features.
• Healthcare domain expertise. We'll teach you the domain. You teach us the orchestration.

How We Evaluate

1. Screening questions (in your application) — We're looking for specificity and honesty, not keyword density.
2. Architecture conversation with CTO (90 min) — We'll describe our current system, its limitations, and where we want to go. You'll tell us how you'd approach it. This is a two-way design conversation, not a quiz.
3. Small design exercise (async, take-home) — Given a simplified version of our spec validation problem, design an agent topology. We're evaluating how you think about boundaries, failure modes, and escalation — not production-ready code.
4. Trial sprint (60–90 days) — Heavy pairing with CTO in the first 30 days, increasing autonomy after. Defined milestones at 30, 60, and 90 days.

The Team and Context

Small, senior engineering team, primarily Ukraine-based. The CTO (Jay) designed the Enso methodology, has 20+ years of engineering experience across healthcare, threat intelligence, and enterprise platforms, and has built the governance architecture (constitutions, spec-gates, validation layers) that you'd be evolving. He's technical, direct, and has strong opinions — but he's hiring you because he needs a partner in this, not an executor.

The product stack is Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS serverless (Lambda, CDK, Amplify Gen 2), with Vitest testing, Pino structured logging, and HIPAA compliance enforced in CI. You don't need to know this stack deeply, but you need to understand it well enough to build agentic tooling that integrates with it.

We're building toward autonomous agentic systems for clinical operations — this development process work is the foundation that makes that possible. If the idea of designing the system that governs how an engineering team builds software excites you, this is the role.

How to Apply

Reply with:

• The most complex agentic or LLM orchestration system you've built — what it did, how it was structured, what you learned
• Your honest take on where agentic AI is right now and what's actually hard
• What interests you about building process infrastructure vs. product features

Generic responses get skipped. We know the field is young — we'd rather hear about one deep experience than a list of tools you've touched.