Staff-Level Full-Stack Engineer – Remote with travel to Mclean, VA a few days/month – Competitive Salary + Equity + Opportunity to work with an Ambitious, Rapidly-Growing Start-Up
North America
September 24, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Staff-Level Full-Stack Engineer – Remote with travel to Mclean, VA a few days/month – Competitive Salary + Equity + Opportunity to work with an Ambitious, Rapidly-Growing Start-Up
This young, early-stage start-up challenger are currently looking for an experienced Full-Stack Engineer to join their small team and help drive the business forwards.
This could be an excellent opportunity for an experienced Software Engineer with a natural propensity for customer-facing work to take that next step into an exciting position with a very well-run and ambitious organisation in an innovative, exciting space.
This young and agile company are building cutting-edge AI platforms and utilizing Applied to AI to drive their software engineering principles. They are in a unique space where there is an opportunity for them to gain significant market share very quickly.
About the Company:
Seed-stage company, $7M seed round closed last year
Business has moved past pure architecture and now needs execution and ownership
• ~15 employees currently
• Scaling to ~20 employees over next 2 months
• 6-7 active customer contracts already live
This is early-stage.
Candidates joining now will meaningfully shape:
• Product architecture
• Engineering culture
• Customer delivery
• Technical direction
About the Staff-Level Full-Stack Engineer Vacancy:
This is:
• Full-stack product engineering
• Feature ownership
• Customer-driven development
• Frontend + backend implementation
• Ambiguous start-up environment
The ideal candidate can:
Take a feature from customer request through to production deployment.
This is NOT platform engineering.
NOT SRE.
NOT internal tooling.
Ideal Requirements for the Staff-Level Full-Stack Engineer Vacancy:
Core Technical Requirements:
Frontend
• TypeScript
• React
• Next.js
• Modern frontend architecture
Backend
• Python
• FastAPI
• Flask
Databases
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• SQLAlchemy
• Relational databases
Cloud
• AWS preferred
• Helpful but NOT core requirement
The biggest requirement:
A nimble full-stack engineer who can independently own features in an ambiguous
environment.
This means:
• Start-up mindset
• Product thinking
• Autonomous execution
• Able to gather missing requirements themselves
• Comfortable without structure
Apply to the Role:
Roles like these are snapped up very quickly, so act now if you do not want to miss out! Reply to this advert or email your CV to richard@weareorbis.com