Founding Full-Stack Engineer — Remote

Smart Working Solutions; Pakistan; Remote; PKR 33,306,000 - 49,958,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Global collaboration

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Smart Working is seeking a Founding Engineer to own the platform across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, shipping customer-facing features as a solo generalist. This senior IC role offers significant ownership and the potential to grow with the company as it scales.

You will work remotely with global teams, drive security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2 readiness by 2027), and use AI-assisted coding tools while ensuring correctness and robustness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally including early-stage startup or high-ownership experience.
• 5+ years of senior-level full-stack engineering experience across a React/TypeScript frontend and Node/Postgres-style backend, or a strong modern JavaScript/TypeScript full-stack equivalent such as Next.js or Vue/Nuxt, with proven end-to-end ownership.
• 4+ years of senior-level experience with solo ownership of cloud deployment, releases and CI/CD, or a proven record of shipping and operating production infrastructure without a dedicated DevOps/platform team.
• 3+ years of senior-level experience with Postgres/Supabase or equivalent, including row-level security and edge functions. Deep relational database experience with another Postgres-based backend, Firebase or PlanetScale is also acceptable.
• 1–2+ years of senior-level experience using AI-assisted/agentic coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or Copilot to ship production software, or demonstrable heavy and disciplined use of LLMs within a professional development workflow.
• Have a clear method for checking AI-generated output rather than trusting it blindly.
• Be comfortable operating as a senior/staff-level individual contributor generalist and owning a product or platform end-to-end solo or near-solo; formal project-leadership titles are not required.

Responsibilities

• Own the product end-to-end as a solo generalist, building, shipping and deploying across frontend, backend and infrastructure without a supporting team.
• Keep the live platform healthy, including handling incidents and defects and managing safe releases and rollback.
• Use AI/agentic coding tools to increase personal output while independently verifying correctness, security and robustness rather than trusting AI-generated output blindly.
• Lead the platform towards ISO 27001 and SOC 2 readiness by April 2027, translating external compliance requirements into concrete engineering controls; prior certification experience is not required.
• Make the AI assistant and orchestration features reliable, measurable and safe.
• Decide what to preserve, isolate, improve or replace in the current platform based on customer risk and commercial value, without undertaking an unnecessary rebuild.
• Move fluidly across frontend and backend as a true full-stack generalist, with no fixed frontend/backend split.
• Harden, scale and evolve the existing product, including delivery intelligence, AI assistant, SOW ingestion, project/resource/commercial management and a beta orchestration layer, while continuing to ship customer-facing improvements.
• Work solo end-to-end as the company's hands-on technical owner, with the potential to help decide on and shape the first supporting engineering hire once funding closes.
• Work effectively with high ambiguity, evolving scope and close, direct collaboration with both technical and non-technical founders.

Skills

Full-stack

React/TypeScript

Node/Postgres

CI/CD ownership

Postgres/Supabase

AI-assisted coding

Tools

Next.js or Vue/Nuxt

Job description

Smart Working is seeking a Founding Engineer to own the platform across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, shipping customer-facing features as a solo generalist. This senior IC role offers significant ownership and the potential to grow with the company as it scales.

You will work remotely with global teams, drive security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2 readiness by 2027), and use AI-assisted coding tools while ensuring correctness and robustness.