SENIOR FULL STACK ENGINEER

Player-Coach | Venture-Backed Hospitality SaaS | New York City | In-Person Onsite 5 Days

THE COMPANY AND THE ROLE

Our client is a seed-stage, venture-backed hospitality operations platform based in New York. The product manages smart devices, guest experiences, and field teams for operators running thousands of short-term rental and boutique hotel units across multiple regions. The company has strong product-market fit, very low customer churn, and a clear lead in its niche.

The company is mid-rebuild, migrating off a legacy no-code platform onto a hand-built TypeScript monorepo with a new database, API layer, dashboard, and mobile app. You join at the point where the architecture is being set. You will not inherit a legacy system. You will build the one that replaces it, and you will define the patterns every future engineer at the company inherits.

This is a full-stack role with a strong backend emphasis, and candidates should be comfortable spending the majority of their time designing services, APIs, databases, and integrations.

This is a player-coach role. Most of your week is hands-on building, The rest is leading: code review, architectural guidance, and pairing with the engineers around you.

You own both your output and the team's output.

(~80% hands-on coding / 20% mentoring, code review, and technical leadership.)

WHAT THIS ROLE IS AND IS NOT

This role is

• A building role. New product, new architecture.
• In-person in New York City, full-time.
• Full-stack with a backend lean.
• AI-native. Daily use of Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot.
• A leadership seat. You own the team's output, not just your own.

This role is not

• An optimization or maintenance role.
• Remote or hybrid.
• A single-layer or frontend-only specialist seat.
• A role where AI tooling is optional or experimental.
• A pure individual-contributor role with no team accountability.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Ship full vertical slices across the TypeScript monorepo, from schema migration to backend service to typed frontend component, in a single pull request.
• Drive the rebuild through its remaining phases: web dashboard, admin surface, mobile app, and public API.
• Build for a multi-region, data-residency-sensitive product from day one.
• Integrate with the messy real world: property management systems, smart locks, payments, and a high-frequency telemetry pipeline.
• Lead and mentor through code review, architectural guidance, and pairing, and set the quality bar.
• Establish AI-assisted development practices that scale as the team grows.

WHO YOU ARE

• Five or more years writing production TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Two or more years leading engineers as a tech lead, engineering manager, or senior engineer who genuinely owned team output.
• True full-stack range. You can write a schema migration, a backend service, and a typed frontend component in the same afternoon.
• Strong relational database instincts: schema design, migrations, indexes, and query plans.
• Demonstrated fluency with AI coding tools. You can articulate where they accelerate you and where they quietly mislead you.
• Sound architectural judgment. You know when to build, buy, refactor, or ship as-is.
• Clear written communication. The team is async-first, and decisions happen in writing.

Bonus: Nest-style backends, App-Router frontends, offline-first mobile, end-to-end type safety, or high-frequency event pipelines, and vertical SaaS with deep integration surface area.

COMPENSATION

$185,000 to $210,000 per year, based on experience.

Full-time and in-person at the company's office in New York City.

Equity ownership

401k match

Health insurance

To learn more or refer a candidate, reach EqualAccess at recruiting@theequalaccess.com.