Lead Full Stack Engineer (DevOps + AI)

Peptidology; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) with match

PTO

Job summary

Peptidology is seeking a software developer with strong DevOps skills to own the entire platform—code, servers, deployments, monitoring, backups and security. You’ll build tools for ops, quality, customer service and finance to protect margin and grow revenue.

The role is AI-native, using Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and more; you’ll work with the founder and core staff in a small team, with options for remote, hybrid, or Phoenix, AZ in-person work.

Qualifications

• Requires a track record of shipping products and owning outcomes.
• Experience running DevOps on a live ecommerce store; uptime, performance, incident response and backups.
• Familiarity with integrating AI tooling into product workflows.
• Background in ecommerce or biotech is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the full platform: code, servers, deployments, monitoring, backups, security.
• Develop new tools for ops, quality, customer service and finance to grow revenue or save hours.
• Oversee the AI toolchain: agents, workflows and guardrails.
• Design screens or brief UX/UI work with external teams as needed.
• Ensure clean handover from founders/contractors.

Skills

Software development

DevOps on live store

AI-native tooling

eCommerce background

UX/UI judgment

Direct communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

WordPress

WooCommerce

Linux

nginx

Redis

Cloudflare

GitHub

Claude

ChatGPT

Gemini

Grok

n8n

Job description

Peptidology · Remote, hybrid or in person (Phoenix, AZ) · Contract-to-hire

What you'd be taking over

• Our own ERP: purchasing, lots, batches, inventory, lab testing, releases. The ops and quality team lives in it every day.
• Our own LIMS: every lot is tested by independent labs. The system takes in the lab reports, checks them, and publishes certificates customers can verify.
• The storefront: WordPress and WooCommerce on a hand-built theme, with custom plugins for checkout, fraud screening, store credit, the Lab Partnership program and customer accounts.
• The infrastructure: Linux, nginx, Redis, Cloudflare, GitHub. Main is production within about a minute, so every release is gated, verified and owned.

How we work

• AI is how we build. We spend low five figures a month on AI tooling across Claude, Gemini, Grok and ChatGPT. You'll use all four, every day, and pick the right one for each job.
• We're focused on objectives we can measure.
• When building product, you'll work directly with the founder and key staff.
• Small team, no committee. You scope it, you ship it, you verify it, you own it.
• We check before we claim. Real logins on staging, counts before and after, nothing called live until it's proven live.
• Plain English. Short sentences. Technical detail at the end.

What you'll own

• The whole platform: code, servers, deploys, monitoring, backups, security.
• New product: tools for ops, quality, customer service and finance, and the features customers touch. Everything we build has to grow revenue, protect margin or save the team hours.
• The AI toolchain: the agents, workflows and guardrails that let a small team ship like a big one.
• Design: you can design a screen yourself and make it good. When a project needs more, you brief and run an outside UX/UI team.
• The handover from me and our contractor, done cleanly, with nothing lost.

Who I'm looking for

• A software developer first. You've built products people use, not only kept servers running.
• DevOps on a live store: uptime, performance, incident response, patching, backups, access control. You've been the one on call.
• AI-native: you already use Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, n8n, etc to design, write, review and test code, and you can show me the before and after.
• A background in eCommerce or biotech. Both is better.
• A design eye, and the judgment to know when to bring in a UX/UI team.
• Direct and plain. You say what's done, what's not, and what you checked.

Nice to have

• Payments, fraud and chargebacks on a high-volume store.
• Lab or quality systems: certificates of analysis, lot tracking, chain of custody.
• Marketing data: GA4, Google Ads, Meta and TikTok pixels, email and SMS platforms.

Pay and setup

• Contract-to-hire. A 90-day contract, extendable to six months, then conversion to a full-time hire.
• $60 to $95 an hour on contract, then $120K to $190K a year once hired, plus company-paid healthcare, 401(k) with match, and PTO. Where you land in the range depends on what you've shipped.
• Remote, hybrid or in person in Phoenix, AZ. All three work.
• No benefits during the contract.