Founding Engineer (Full-Stack or Mobile)

Noovid; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Worldwide remote

Equity

Product ownership

Open decisions

Learning budget

Paid vacation

Job summary

Noovid seeks a senior software leader to own a marketplace used by brands and creators. You will steer major product surfaces, guide cross-functional teams, and set engineering standards while improving a live product used by both brands and creators.

You will drive decisions across campaign, matching, delivery, revisions, and payments, or own the mobile experience. Expect high-leverage technical impact and strong product ownership.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years building production software with senior scope.
• Ownership of a product or platform within a small team.
• Full-stack path: comfortable with TS/React, APIs, relational data, infra.
• Mobile path: production mobile app shipping and maintenance.
• Clear communication of trade-offs and confident product decisions.
• Fluent English is the working language.

Responsibilities

• Own a major product surface from data/APIs to UI or mobile flows.
• Identify friction, roadmap it, and ship measurable improvements.
• Set architecture, testing, observability, security and performance standards.
• Act as a senior technical voice in decisions on implementation and direction.
• Document the technical landscape and key decisions for future engineers.
• Within six months, understand risks and deliver an end-to-end improvement with an initial roadmap.

Skills

7+ years experience

Full-stack TS/React

APIs

Relational databases

Infrastructure

Mobile development

Communication skills

Fluent English

Job description

Role overview

Take senior ownership of a marketplace used by brands commissioning videos and creators managing their work. You may lead the web marketplace across campaign, matching, delivery, revision, and payment flows, or own the mobile experience creators use day to day. In either track, you will make high-leverage technical and product decisions, set engineering standards, and improve a live product used by both sides of the marketplace.

Responsibilities

• Own a major product surface from data and APIs through user interfaces or mobile workflows.
• Identify friction for brands and creators, turn it into a prioritized roadmap, and ship measurable improvements.
• Establish practical standards for architecture, testing, observability, security, accessibility, and performance.
• Act as a senior technical voice in decisions about implementation and product direction.
• Document the technical landscape and key decisions so future engineers can contribute quickly.
• In the first six months, understand system risks, deliver a meaningful end-to-end improvement, and create an initial technical roadmap with a foundational improvement.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience building production software, including senior- or staff-level scope.
• Previous ownership of a product or platform within a small team.
• For the full-stack path: comfort with relational data, APIs, TypeScript, React, and infrastructure.
• For the mobile path: experience shipping and maintaining a production mobile application used regularly by customers.
• Clear communication of technical trade-offs and confidence making product decisions.
• Fluent English, which is the working language.

Nice to have

• Experience with marketplaces, payments, or video infrastructure.
• Ability to work across tracks, such as a full-stack engineer with mobile experience or a mobile engineer comfortable going deep on APIs.
• Early-stage or first-engineer experience.
• Portuguese or Spanish language skills.

Benefits and work setup

• Worldwide remote work with written processes designed to support distributed teams.
• Meaningful equity participation.
• Ownership of complete problems from discovery through shipped results.
• Direct involvement in open technical and product decisions.
• Annual learning and development budget.
• Paid vacation that employees are expected to use.