Staff Full-Stack Engineer, Quality & Delivery

Propel Labs; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Propel Labs, a remote-first studio, is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer focused on Quality & Delivery. You will lead critical builds, shape the engineering quality system, and fuse product outcomes with robust architecture.

Stack: TypeScript, React, Python, PostgreSQL, ECS/Lambda, Terraform. We value senior judgment, bias toward outcomes, and collaboration over hours; join a small team with CEO involvement and direct impact.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in TypeScript, React and Python software development.
• Experience with cloud-native services and container orchestration.
• Ability to own quality metrics and delivery processes.

Responsibilities

• Raise the team's bar without bureaucracy.
• Ship production code and own quality delivery as a product.
• Be the human PR review and gate for releases.
• Own the quality delivery system as a product.
• Ship spec-first and drive architecture decisions.
• Orchestrate AI initiatives at staff level.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Python

PostgreSQL

ECS/Lambda

Terraform

Job description

Propel Labs | Staff Full-Stack Engineer, Quality & Delivery | Remote (North America hours) | Full-time | https://propellabs.ai

Hello HN, Lisa here from Propel! We're a bunch of interdisciplinary builder-maker-designers leading a venture studio and building software for mining and deep-tech companies. Think IDEO for AI: a small senior team, direct CEO involvement, technical depth married with design craft. We are not a dev shop and not a consultancy, we're not about scope or hours, we're only about outcomes. We embed through the lifecycle of challenges and the same senior people stay on the problem.

AI agents have made engineering throughput cheap, so senior judgment is now the scarce asset: what to build, what to gate, what to trust to production. We're looking for an experienced engineer to join our small crew and play a ~70/30 build-to-lead role:

• Raise the team's bar without bureaucracy
• Ship production code
• Be the human PR review
• Own the quality delivery system as a product
• Ship spec-first
• Orchestrate AI at staff level

Stack: TypeScript, React, Python, PostgreSQL, ECS/Lambda, Terraform.

We work on fascinating projects with physical implications to the world but more importantly we just really don't work with a*holes, I wake up happy to see my colleagues, the crew loves to laugh and we walk the walk.

Full role details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R7rPplGTziBmvnKSocRRQ5Pg4cPhUUreny1DPx7y0Zs/edit?usp=sharing