Software Engineer - Core Team

Uncover; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Competitive salary and equity

Distributed/remote-friendly team

Job summary

FOSSA, a rapidly growing series-B company with a distributed team, is seeking a senior full-stack software engineer. You will design, build, and ship features across the stack using Node.js, TypeScript, React, and PostgreSQL, owning work end-to-end from scope to live rollout.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, and support to turn customer problems into solid software, improve reliability for enterprise-scale users, review code, mentor others, and participate in on-call rotations to keep

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building and shipping scalable SaaS products.
• Full-stack engineer owning features end to end in a large codebase.
• Strong SQL and relational DB experience with performance in mind.
• Ability to mentor others and participate in on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship full-stack features used daily by customers.
• Own work end to end: scoping, implementation, testing, rollout, live follow-up.
• Work with Node.js, TypeScript, React, and PostgreSQL across the stack.
• Partner with product, design, and support to translate customer problems into software.
• Improve reliability and performance for enterprise-scale users.
• Review code and help raise the team's quality bar.
• Participate in on-call rotation and keep systems operable.

Skills

Full-stack development

Node.js

TypeScript

React

PostgreSQL

SQL queries

Code review

Observability tooling

Mentoring

On-call support

AI tooling interest

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

About the Role

Modern software runs on open source - and managing the compliance, security, and regulatory complexity that comes with it is one of the biggest problems facing engineering and legal teams today. FOSSA is the platform they use to address these challenges. We help thousands of organizations automate license compliance, prioritize vulnerabilities, generate and operationalize SBOMs, and meet regulatory requirements. Whether it's scanning AI-generated code for IP risks or helping a company through M&A due diligence, FOSSA gives teams the confidence to ship software they trust. FOSSA is a rapidly growing series-B company with a truly distributed team. While our roots are in San Francisco, our growing team has members in several countries across many time zones. We're always working to find the perfect balance of effective approaches to distributed work, while maintaining the direct personal connections that help us work better together and love our jobs.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and ship full-stack features that customers use daily, from database schema through to interface.
• Own your work end to end, including scoping, implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-through once it is live.
• Work in a variety of languages and tools, including Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Postgres.
• Partner with product, design, and support to turn customer problems into working software.
• Improve the reliability and performance of a system that runs at meaningful scale for large enterprise customers.
• Review code thoughtfully and help raise the quality bar for the team.
• Take part in an on-call rotation and help make the systems you own easier to operate.

What We're Looking For

• Demonstrated experience building and shipping scalable SaaS products, with real ownership of what you built.
• Experience as a full-stack software engineer owning and building features end to end.
• Solid experience with relational databases and writing performant SQL queries.
• Experience working in a large existing codebase, including proactivity in sharing ideas and informed opinions with others.
• Experience with agentic tooling and AI-assisted workflows, or a strong interest in getting good at using them. We use these tools daily and expect them to keep changing how we build.
• Ability to break down complex problems, drive towards a solution, and communicate it with the team and other stakeholders (both verbally and written).
• You thrive in an environment that prefers prototypes over proposals.
• Ability to mentor and be mentored by others.
• Experience with observability tooling.
• A growth mindset and willingness to learn new things.
• Attention to detail and quality to anticipate edge cases ahead of time.

Why you'll love working at FOSSA

• Amazing team culture and environment
• Named by Built In as Best Startup to work for 2024, 2025, 2026 and Forbes 2022
• Competitive salary and equity package
• Unlimited PTO

FOSSA is an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

The annual cash compensation range for this position is $130,000 - $185,000 USD. Final compensation will be determined based on experience and skills and may vary from the range listed.