Founding Full-Stack Platform Engineer

OMNIVERSE; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

OMNIVERSE is seeking an engineer to own and improve player-facing features in our React app, while building secure server-authoritative services for games, wallets, promotions, payments, and accounts. You will enhance Supabase/Postgres schemas, security, and observability, ensuring real-time consistency and auditable systems.

Ideal candidates bring strong TypeScript/React experience and backend PostgreSQL/serverless skills, with a proven ability to work independently in an early-stage

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience with TypeScript and modern React.
• Backend experience with PostgreSQL and API or serverless service development.
• Experience designing or maintaining transactional systems where correctness and auditability matter.
• Ability to work independently in an early-stage environment and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve player-facing features in the existing React application.
• Develop secure server-authoritative services for games, wallets, promotions, payments, and account operations.
• Integrate payment, identity, compliance, analytics, and communications providers.
• Review AI-assisted code and establish practical engineering standards for human and agent contributors.
• Write tests and documentation that make high-risk systems understandable and maintainable.
• Collaborate directly with the founders and product/game teams on priorities and release decisions.

Skills

TypeScript

React

API design

Serverless

PostgreSQL

Security fundamentals

Tools

Supabase

WebSockets

Netlify

PostgreSQL

Job description

This is a hands-on role for someone comfortable making architectural decisions, shipping product, documenting tradeoffs, and improving an existing codebase without rebuilding everything from scratch.

What you will own

• Build and improve player-facing features in the existing React application.
• Develop secure server-authoritative services for games, wallets, promotions, payments, and account operations.
• Improve Supabase/Postgres schemas, row-level security, Edge Functions, migrations, observability, and performance.
• Strengthen real-time behavior, cross-device consistency, idempotency, auditability, and failure recovery.
• Integrate payment, identity, compliance, analytics, and communications providers.
• Review AI-assisted code and establish practical engineering standards for human and agent contributors.
• Write tests and documentation that make high-risk systems understandable and maintainable.
• Collaborate directly with the founders and product/game teams on priorities and release decisions.
• Strong professional experience with TypeScript and modern React.
• Backend experience with PostgreSQL and API or serverless service development.
• Experience designing or maintaining transactional systems where correctness and auditability matter.
• Ability to work independently in an early-stage environment and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD, security fundamentals, and production debugging.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Supabase, WebSockets, Netlify, payment processing, gaming systems, fintech, loyalty economies, or regulated consumer products.
• Experience with server-authoritative game logic, ledgers, wallet systems, fraud controls, or high-integrity random-number workflows.
• Experience collaborating with AI coding agents while retaining human review and change control.

Proposed compensation

Contractor engagement: you set your own hours, work from anywhere in the United States, and supply your own equipment. There is no fixed schedule and no required location beyond being able to overlap US time zones when a handoff or incident needs it. Contractor engagements do not include employee benefits. Timing and final classification will be agreed before an offer.

A good-faith range for this posting. The final offer depends on experience and scope.