Founding Full-Stack Engineer: AI-Powered Payments Platform

Delano Consulting; California; On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Delano Consulting seeks a founding Full-Stack Engineer to own product development for a stealth consumer platform in California. You will lead web, iOS, Android, payments, messaging, and AI pipelines, turning briefs into designed visuals and live features.

You’ll ship a Stripe‑connected marketplace, 10DLC communications, and calendar/scheduling tools, with a strong emphasis on UI polish and product quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping production software, at least one consumer product you built mostly solo.
• Proficient in React Native (Expo or bare) with at least one app on App Store and Google Play.
• Stripe Connect in production knowledge: KYC, payouts, webhooks, ledger reconciliation.
• Experience with Twilio or similar; understand 10DLC requirements.
• Experience with LLM and image-model APIs in shipped products.
• Postgres with a typed ORM (Drizzle) and AWS production experience.
• Maintaining testing habits with Vitest, Playwright, CI that blocks merges.
• Strong eye for visual design and details (screen polish)

Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end engineering for a two‑sided platform across web, iOS, and Android.
• Implement sign‑in, profiles, and business account verification flows.
• Integrate Stripe Connect, KYC, payouts, webhooks, and ledger reconciliation.
• Incorporate AI features like an AI art director and LLM APIs into product workflows.
• Build calendars, app store submissions, and push notification logic.
• Maintain robust testing, CI, and quality gates for releases.

Skills

React Native

TypeScript

Frontend & Backend

App Store deployment

AI integration

Product shipping

Testing & CI

UI/visual polish

Tools

Stripe Connect

Twilio/10DLC

Drizzle ORM

PostgreSQL

AWS

CI/CD

Vitest/Playwright

Job description

Delano Consulting seeks a founding Full-Stack Engineer to own product development for a stealth consumer platform in California. You will lead web, iOS, Android, payments, messaging, and AI pipelines, turning briefs into designed visuals and live features.

You’ll ship a Stripe‑connected marketplace, 10DLC communications, and calendar/scheduling tools, with a strong emphasis on UI polish and product quality.