Full-Stack Software Engineer

Stealth Startup; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stealth Startup in Austin, TX, is hiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer to design and build the software systems that run our machines and the business around them. This role owns the full stack: real-time machine data, backend services, and operator interfaces used to monitor and control production.

It is a hands-on, ownership-heavy role for someone who has shipped products in fast-paced startup environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, including startups with broad ownership of the app stack.
• Experience building and supporting live applications and services.
• Broad knowledge of software architecture and tradeoffs between monolith and microservice.
• Familiarity with Golang, Postgres schema design and SQL.
• Experience in a CI/CD environment with automated tests, builds, and releases.

Responsibilities

• Design and build full-stack web applications for internal tooling, machine monitoring, operations management, and public storefronts.
• Architect and implement an ERP system from scratch: production scheduling, inventory tracking, and order management with automation.
• Build machine orchestration interfaces with real-time dashboards and industrial protocol integration.
• Design and maintain web applications and services that solve core problems.
• Contribute to a robust CI/CD pipeline with automated testing and containerized builds.

Skills

Full-stack software engineering

Live applications experience

CI/CD practices

Distributed team collaboration

Startup experience

Tools

Golang

PostgreSQL

CI/CD tooling

Job description

We are a venture-backed manufacturing startup building the most advanced automated production facilities in the United States. We are on a mission to make American manufacturing economically viable — through intelligent machinery, automation, and a relentless focus on execution. We are early, we are moving fast, and we are looking for exceptional people who want to build something that matters.

Role Summary

We’re hiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer - someone who will design and build the software systems that run our machines and the business around them. This role owns the full stack: real-time machine data, backend services, and the operator interfaces used to monitor and control production. It is a hands-on, ownership-heavy role for someone who has experience shipping products in fast-paced startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build full-stack web applications for internal tooling, machine monitoring, operations management, and public store fronts
• Architect and implement a custom ERP system from scratch - production scheduling, inventory tracking, equipment status, and order management with a high degree of automation and minimal manual data entry
• Build machine orchestration interfaces with real-time dashboards and control surfaces that integrate with industrial equipment over well-known protocols
• Design and maintain web applications and services that solve core problems
• Contribute to development of a robust CI/CD pipeline - automated testing, containerized builds, and deployment
• Build AI and automation into the systems that power the manufacturing floor
• Work directly alongside controls and electrical engineers to define integration contracts between software and machine hardware

Preferred Experience

• 6+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, including meaningful time at startups with broad ownership of the application stack
• Experience building and supporting live applications and services
• Broad knowledge of software architecture and able to consider the tradeoffs between centralized vs distributed and monolith vs microservice
• Deep experience with building multi-tiered applications and services in Golang
• RDBMS and PostgreSQL fluency in schema design and writing and reading raw SQL
• Experience working in a CI/CD environment with test, build, and release pipelines
• Care deeply about engineering excellence with Git hygiene, documentation, and constructive code review
• Comfortable using AI to increase velocity and reduce defects but to implement everything or make every decision
• Effective communicator and collaborator in a distributed team environment
• Flexible with schedule and hours; thrives in a startup environment where priorities shift and urgency is real

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with OPC-UA or other industrial automation and communication protocols
• Knowledge of event streaming technologies like NATS or MQTT
• Experience with document or time-series databases
• Container orchestration with Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate or Cloud Run
• Prior work experience in a manufacturing domain
• Experience at an early-stage hard tech or deep tech startup
• Any prior team lead or mentorship experience

Additional

• Willingness to travel as needed for vendor visits, factory acceptance testing, and on-site equipment commissioning
• Comfort with a startup pace - this role demands flexibility, self-direction, and a bias toward getting things done over waiting for perfect conditions

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity in our hiring practices.