Founding Software Engineer — Product

Roark; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Roark is seeking an early-stage founder-level frontend engineer to own customer-facing surfaces of a scoring platform. You will take features from a one-sentence request to production, staying close to users and iterating quickly.

The role spans a Next.js/React frontend, GraphQL API, and a Postgres data model, collaborating with design to ensure a polished user experience and a culture of rapid, thoughtful shipping.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building production web applications with strong TypeScript and React experience.
• Comfort owning a feature end-to-end including API design, data modeling, and UI polish.
• Portfolio or war stories showing product taste with attention to spacing, latency, and empty states.
• Bias to ship: prefer releasing a small version to users this week over a larger one next month.
• Clear written communication suited to a remote team that writes things down.

Responsibilities

• Design and build product surfaces end to end with a Next.js/React frontend, GraphQL API, and a Postgres data model from schema to pixel.
• Translate messy workflows such as test suites, issue triage, and run reviews into intuitive interfaces.
• Collaborate with design to ensure a high-quality system and push back when something reads wrong.
• Attend customer calls, observe usage, and ship fixes within the same week.
• Raise the quality bar with tests, instrumentation, and avoiding silent failures.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Next.js

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

API design

Data modeling

UI polish

Tools

Drizzle

Bun

AWS

Job description

Role overview

An early-stage founding role owning the customer-facing surfaces of a platform used to score calls, file issues, and verify fixes. The engineer takes features from a one-sentence customer request all the way to production and stays close to the people using what they ship.

Responsibilities

• Design and build product surfaces end to end, spanning a Next.js and React frontend, a GraphQL API, and a Postgres data model from schema to pixel.
• Translate messy real-world workflows such as test suites, issue triage, and run reviews into interfaces that feel obvious in hindsight.
• Work directly with design on a system that takes craft seriously, and push back when something reads wrong.
• Sit in on customer calls, watch people use shipped features, and ship fixes the same week.
• Raise the quality bar with selective tests, instrumentation everywhere, and no silent failures.

Requirements

• 4+ years building production web applications, with deep TypeScript and React experience.
• Comfort owning a feature across the full stack, including API design, data modeling, and UI polish.
• A portfolio or set of war stories showing product taste, including attention to spacing, latency, and empty states.
• Bias to ship: preference for putting a small version in front of a user this week over a larger version next month.
• Clear written communication suited to a remote team that writes things down.

Nice to have

• Day-to-day work in a stack of TypeScript, Next.js, React, GraphQL, Postgres with Drizzle, Bun, and AWS via SST.