Lead Engineer, Full-Stack SaaS — Remote with Big Impact

SafetyClerk; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SafetyClerk is hiring a Lead Engineer to architect, build, and scale our Construction Tech / Insurtech SaaS platform. You’ll own systems end-to-end across web, mobile, and data services, collaborating with founders on technical strategy.

We value mentoring, design systems, and strong API/data modeling skills, with a frontend focus on TypeScript and React Native. Remote-friendly with NY/Miami preference.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead role.
• Strong backend experience in Python with Flask or a similar framework, plus relational database design with Postgres or equivalent.
• Solid frontend experience with modern TypeScript, React or React Native, and component driven UI.
• Comfortable across the stack: API design, data modeling, frontend rendering, build pipelines, and deployment.
• Experience writing and maintaining tests at multiple levels (unit, integration, end to end).
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead technical discussions with both engineers and non technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of major features across Flask monolith, Next.js site, Expo mobile app, and FastAPI data services.
• Design clean, well typed APIs and database schemas with SQLAlchemy and Alembic.
• Drive code quality, testing, and review standards across the engineering team.
• Build and evolve the shared design system of native Lit Web Components used by Flask and React Native components used by mobile.
• Partner with Product and Customer Success to translate operational and compliance workflows into reliable software.
• Own performance, reliability, and observability of customer facing systems.
• Mentor engineers, run technical design reviews, and shape long term technical strategy.
• Participate in hiring and help grow the engineering team as the company scales.

Skills

Backend Python

Flask

React/React Native

SQL/PostgreSQL

API design

Testing (unit/integration)

Tools

Next.js

TypeScript

Tailwind

Jest

Pytest

Rollup

Job description

SafetyClerk is hiring a Lead Engineer to architect, build, and scale our Construction Tech / Insurtech SaaS platform. You’ll own systems end-to-end across web, mobile, and data services, collaborating with founders on technical strategy.

We value mentoring, design systems, and strong API/data modeling skills, with a frontend focus on TypeScript and React Native. Remote-friendly with NY/Miami preference.