Full Stack Engineer

Protech Talent; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Protech Talent is seeking a Senior/Staff Full-Stack Engineer to own product and feature development. You will interface directly with users and internal teams to shape what gets built in a fast-growing startup with visa-friendly options.

You will redesign workflow orchestration, build agentic AI systems, and own architecture across backend and frontend using TypeScript/React on the frontend and Python/Node on the backend, with FastAPI and GraphQL.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience shipping complex products across the full stack (frontend and backend).
• Founded engineer or senior technical leader experience at a VC-backed early-stage startup (Seed/Series A).
• Product-minded execution: ownership from user discovery to production deployment.

Responsibilities

• Redesign Workflow Orchestration: architect scalable task/workflow systems for multi-step processes.
• Build Agentic AI Systems: deploy LLM-powered agents to automate legal ops and document processing.
• Own Core Architecture: drive data modeling, schema design, migrations, and API access controls.

Skills

TypeScript/React

Python/Node

FastAPI

GraphQL

SQL Data Modeling

Job description

Location: Hybrid (3–4 days/week in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY)

Compensation: $200,000 – $350,000 Base Salary + 0.25% – 1% Equity

Visa Status: Open to Visa Transfers (OPT, H-1B)

The Company

Our client is an exceptionally capital-efficient, high-growth startup modernizing one of the most broken, high-stakes processes in the talent ecosystem: U.S. immigration.

Built by founders with deep domain expertise, they are the infrastructure behind global talent mobility. Their traction is staggering: they have already hit $10M in revenue on just $2M in venture funding, with a clear path to 4x growth this year. They are solving a massive, deeply human problem by building an AI-native platform that automates complex legal workflows at scale.

The Role

As a Senior/Staff Full-Stack Engineer, you will have full ownership of product/feature development. You will interface directly with users and internal legal operations teams to shape exactly what gets built.

You will own the hardest technical challenges: redesigning workflow orchestration systems, shaping complex API and data architectures, and building agentic LLM systems that automate legal processes end-to-end.

• Redesign Workflow Orchestration: Architect and build robust, scalable task and workflow orchestration systems for complex, multi-step legal processes.
• Build Agentic AI Systems: Develop and deploy LLM-powered agents that automate end-to-end legal operations and document processing.
• Own Core Architecture: Drive data modeling, schema design, database migrations, and complex API access controls across the backend.
• Ship Full-Stack Features: Build polished, fast, and reliable user-facing customer portals and internal legal-ops tooling.
• Operate Without a PM: Talk directly to end-users and operational teams, translate business pain points into technical specs, and ship multiple times a day.
• Backend: Python or Node, FastAPI, GraphQL
• 2+ Years Experience: Proven track record shipping complex products across the full stack (frontend and backend), with a strong lean toward backend/systems architecture.
• Early-Stage Builder DNA: You have been a founding engineer, early employee, or technical leader at a VC-backed early-stage startup (Seed/Series A).
• Product-Minded Execution: You thrive in environments without PMs, taking end-to-end ownership of the product from user discovery to production deployment.
• Technical Depth: Deep expertise in TypeScript/React on the frontend and Python or Node on the backend, with strong SQL data modeling skills.
• Exceptional Communication: Ability to independently triage issues and confidently explain technical decisions and business impact to non-technical stakeholders.
• Massive Equity & Revenue: 0.25%–1% equity in a company generating $10M+ in revenue with only $2M raised.
• Real-World Impact: Build software that actively helps high-skilled immigrants navigate one of the most stressful, frustrating systems in the world.
• Extreme Autonomy: Shape product direction directly with the CEO and users.

1. Intro Call (30 mins): High-level conversation covering your background, your motivation for joining a small, PM-less team, and general technical orientation.
2. Technical Screen (1 hour): A practical coding and architecture session grounded in real engineering challenges (e.g., data structuring, API redesign, security constraints). No LeetCode or algorithmic puzzles.
3. System Design (1 hour): Deep dive into scaling backend systems, workflow orchestration, and data models.
4. Virtual Onsite (3 - 4 hours): Comprehensive technical and cultural rounds with the founding team, focusing on how you tackle complex business processes and communicate technical trade-offs.