Lead Full-Stack Engineer

Palmos Labs, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Palmos Labs, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer to own the design, development, and reliability of our product platform. You will move quickly from concept to production, guiding architecture and delivery across frontend, backend, APIs, and cloud.

You will work directly with founders and customers to translate needs into pragmatic technical solutions and establish strong monitoring, security, and deployment standards in a fast-paced startup.

Qualifications

• Strong full-stack ownership of production web apps.
• Deep frontend experience with modern frameworks and robust backend APIs/services/data models.
• Familiar with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, authentication, and secure SDLC.
• Proven ability to work independently and make decisions with incomplete information.
• Excellent debugging skills and customer-focused mindset.
• Thrives in a fast-paced early-startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Architect scalable, secure, maintainable systems for an early-stage company.
• Translate product and customer needs into pragmatic technical solutions and ship features quickly.
• Debug production issues, improve performance and reliability, and establish monitoring/alerting.
• Collaborate with founders, product stakeholders, and customers to prioritize technical work.
• Provide on-call support and timely incident resolution.
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, and deployment.

Skills

Full-stack ownership

Frontend expertise

Backend APIs

Cloud & CI/CD

Observability & security

Independent problem-solver

Debugging

Customer-oriented

Startup mindset

Job description

We are a small company seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer to own the design, development, and reliability of our product platform. This role is ideal for a highly independent builder who enjoys solving ambiguous, complex problems and moving quickly from concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Architect scalable, secure, maintainable systems appropriate for an early-stage company.
• Translate product and customer needs into pragmatic technical solutions and ship high-quality features quickly.
• Debug complex production issues, improve performance and reliability, and establish monitoring and alerting.
• Work directly with founders, product stakeholders, and customers to prioritize technical work.
• Provide on-call customer and technical support, including timely investigation and resolution of production incidents.
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, security, and deployment.

Qualifications

• Strong full-stack engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production web applications.
• Deep frontend experience with modern web frameworks and strong backend experience building APIs, services, and data models.
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, authentication, and secure software development practices.
• Proven ability to work independently, make sound technical decisions with incomplete information, and solve complex problems hands-on.
• Excellent debugging skills and a customer-oriented mindset.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced early start-up environment where priorities evolve and everyone contributes beyond a narrow job scope.

Preferred

• Experience building products in regulated, healthcare, enterprise SaaS, or data-intensive environments.
• Prior startup experience or experience as an early engineering hire.

Palmos Labs is a remote first company with headquarters in San Francisco, CA. You must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis to apply for any of our roles.