Founding End-to-End Full-Stack Engineer

Primitive Instruments Corporation; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision for you and

Substantial equity

Unlimited vacation

Equinox membership

Job summary

Primitive Instruments Corporation is seeking an experienced engineer to own features end-to-end across the stack—from database schemas to React components and deployment pipelines. You will design GraphQL schemas, build dashboards, and own platform observability and SLOs while collaborating with hardware and ML teams.

The role emphasizes ownership across Django, Python, and a modern React framework, with production responsibility and cross-domain influence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production web apps; deep on at least one side (Python or TypeScript) and credible on the other.
• Shipped Django + a modern React framework (Next.js, Remix) in production, not just side projects.
• Strong on GraphQL schema design — pagination, permissions, N+1, error contracts, codegen.
• Comfortable operating services in Kubernetes; you can read a pod's logs, events, and resource limits before asking for help.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve features end-to-end across the stack — from database schema and GraphQL resolvers to React components and the deploy pipeline that ships them
• Design schema and mutations in Strawberry GraphQL: pagination, permissions, error contracts, query performance
• Build the dashboard in Next.js (App Router), Turborepo, and our shared packages/ui design system, using TanStack Query with codegen'd hooks
• Operate the platform in production: EKS (Auto Mode), Celery workers, PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions for CI
• Wire observability that actually gets used — Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Alloy — and the SLOs and alerts that go with it
• Lead cross-stack performance work: a slow page is usually three problems in three layers, and you'll find all three
• Mentor new engineers as the team grows; raise the bar on API design, type safety, and code review across both sides of the stack
• Participate in the on-call rotation for the platform

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Django

Next.js

GraphQL

Kubernetes

Codegen

Mentoring

Tools

TanStack Query

Turborepo

pnpm

AWS EKS

Celery

PostgreSQL

Grafana

Loki

Job description

Primitive Instruments Corporation is seeking an experienced engineer to own features end-to-end across the stack—from database schemas to React components and deployment pipelines. You will design GraphQL schemas, build dashboards, and own platform observability and SLOs while collaborating with hardware and ML teams.

The role emphasizes ownership across Django, Python, and a modern React framework, with production responsibility and cross-domain influence.