Full Stack Engineer

Touchstones; India; Remote; INR 3,300,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early-employee equity

Job summary

Touchstones is an AI-native hiring company seeking a mid-senior engineer to build end-to-end web apps and tooling. The role is remote from India, with a full-time commitment and collaboration with the founder.

You will work on reviewer experiences, assessment tooling, and backend APIs, while leveraging AI coding tools to verify outputs and ensure robust, scalable systems. Overlaps with US Pacific mornings are expected.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building production web apps end to end.
• Strong TypeScript, React/Next.js, Node.js and PostgreSQL.
• Experience designing REST APIs, authentication and multi-tenant data models.
• Comfortable using AI coding tools daily, with a strong eye for verifying their output.
• Ownership, speed and good product taste.
• Able to overlap with US Pacific mornings.

Responsibilities

• Build the reviewer experience: evidence packets, rubric views, work-trail timelines and the shareable sample reports.
• Develop hiring-team tools to author assessments and invite candidates.
• Create backend APIs, webhooks and the Verify API, and maintain integrity logs.
• Improve performance, accessibility and reliability across the stack with tests and observability.
• Deliver end-to-end features from spec to production, often within a week.

Skills

TypeScript

React/Next.js

Node.js

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

AI coding tools

Multi-tenant data

Tools

Webhooks/HMAC

Audit logging

Job description

Touchstones is an AI-native hiring company. We build role-specific engineering work samples where candidates are allowed to use AI. We capture the work trail and map every piece of evidence to the hiring team's rubric, and a human reviewer makes the call. We've run 850+ candidate screens, growing 145% month over month, and we're backed by Mucker Capital. You'd be one of the first engineers, working directly with the founder.

Location: Remote (India). Full-time, Mid-Senior level.

What you'll do

• Build the reviewer experience: evidence packets, rubric views, work-trail timelines and the shareable sample reports.
• Build hiring-team tools to author assessments (prompt, criteria weights, trusted tests) and invite candidates.
• Build backend APIs, webhooks and the Verify API, plus the append-only, hash-chained integrity log.
• Work on performance, accessibility and reliability across the stack, with tests and observability.
• Ship end to end, from spec to production, often within a week.

Requirements

• 4+ years building production web apps end to end.
• Strong TypeScript, React/Next.js, Node.js and Postgres.
• Experience designing REST APIs, authentication and multi-tenant data models.
• Comfortable using AI coding tools daily, with a strong eye for verifying their output.
• Ownership, speed and good product taste.
• Able to overlap with US Pacific mornings.

Nice to have

• Experience with webhooks/HMAC, idempotency or audit logs.
• Previous early-stage startup experience.
• Interest in hiring, developer tools or AI products.

Compensation

• India: competitive, up to INR 55 LPA, plus early-employee equity.