Founding Full-Stack Engineer – Remote, Own the Platform

Smart Working; Islamabad; Remote; PKR 984,000 - 1,443,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Working seeks a Founding Engineer to own the AI-native PSA platform end-to-end, spanning frontend, backend and infrastructure. You will operate as a senior/staff IC with strong ownership, guiding architecture and delivery without a large supporting team.

You will scale the platform, drive security and compliance readiness, and work directly with founders in a remote-first environment focused on high-ambiguity, long-term impact, and customer value.

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 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 companys 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

React/TypeScript frontend

Node/Postgres backend

Next.js or Vue/Nuxt

AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor, Cla

CI/CD and cloud deployment

End-to-end ownership

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Copilot

Job description

Smart Working seeks a Founding Engineer to own the AI-native PSA platform end-to-end, spanning frontend, backend and infrastructure. You will operate as a senior/staff IC with strong ownership, guiding architecture and delivery without a large supporting team.

You will scale the platform, drive security and compliance readiness, and work directly with founders in a remote-first environment focused on high-ambiguity, long-term impact, and customer value.