Senior AI & Full-Stack Engineer - DevOps & Technical Leadership

M365connect; Caracas; Remote; VES 79,295,000 - 132,159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Job summary

M365connect is seeking a Senior AI & Full-Stack Engineer for a fully remote, full-time position. You will develop applications across frontend and backend, integrate AI capabilities, and manage Linux infrastructure, databases, and deployment processes.

You will lead developers, mentor colleagues, coordinate outsourced contributors, and review external work. This role offers growth into broader technical leadership as the startup scales and explores new AI-driven solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven senior-level experience delivering production web apps.
• Strong frontend with modern framework, JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Strong backend with secure APIs, integrations, validation, and error handling.
• Practical AI or LLM integration experience, including latency and cost considerations.
• Hands-on AI coding assistants or agentic development workflows.
• Strong SQL and relational database experience including migrations, indexing, performance.
• Linux administration and Docker deployment experience.
• Understanding DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, firewalls, and reverse proxies.
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions; familiarity with Azure DevOps.
• Strong Git, pull requests, code reviews, and release management skills.
• Experience leading a development team or coordinating technical delivery.
• Mentoring ability and ability to explain decisions clearly.
• Experience working with outsourced developers or distributed teams.
• Ability to work independently within a startup budget; long-term role.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain web applications across frontend and backend.
• Build AI-powered features, integrations, internal tools, and automations.
• Use AI coding assistants and coding agents with testing and human reviews.
• Translate business requirements into tasks and acceptance criteria.
• Design APIs, business logic, authentication, authorization, and third-party integrations.
• Manage database schemas, migrations, indexing, performance, backups and recovery.
• Administer Linux servers, including services, permissions, networking, updates.
• Build and maintain Docker environments and container orchestration.
• Maintain DNS, TLS certificates, reverse proxies, and security basics.
• Maintain CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Perform deployments with migration checks and rollback procedures.
• Investigate production incidents and address root causes.
• Coordinate outsourced developers and review deliverables.
• Mentor developers through code reviews and demonstrations.
• Keep implementation proportionate, avoid unnecessary complexity.

Skills

Senior engineer

Frontend (JS/TS)

Backend/API design

AI integration

GitHub Actions CI/CD

Linux administration

Docker deployment

SQL databases

Team leadership

Mentoring

Distributed teams

Tools

GitHub

Azure DevOps

PostgreSQL

Job description

Location: 100% Remote

Employment: Full-time, long-term position

Start date: As soon as possible after selection and agreement

Salary: Startup-aligned starting compensation, based on experience and responsibilities, with the potential for substantial growth during the first few years

About Us

We are a startup developing software products, web applications, AI-powered tools, integrations, and business automations across different projects.

Our delivery model combines internal ownership with outsourced development. We work with external developers and specialists, and we need strong technical leadership to turn their contributions into reliable, maintainable software.

AI-assisted and agentic development are central to how we work. We want to move quickly, make sensible technical decisions, and build solutions that our team can understand, operate, and improve.

We are looking for an experienced engineer who wants to join at an early stage, take meaningful responsibility, and grow with the company.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior AI & Full-Stack Engineer who can develop applications across frontend and backend, integrate AI capabilities, and manage the Linux infrastructure, databases, and deployment processes supporting them.

You should be comfortable taking a project from an initial business requirement through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation. You will work across different products and internal initiatives, helping us choose practical solutions and deliver them efficiently.

Alongside hands-on engineering, your responsibilities may include leading developers, mentoring less experienced colleagues, coordinating outsourced contributors, and reviewing externally delivered work. Previous team leadership and mentoring experience are therefore important.

This is an opportunity to help establish the engineering foundations of a growing startup and develop into a broader technical leadership position.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain web applications across frontend and backend.
• Build AI-powered features, integrations, internal tools, and business automations.
• Use AI coding assistants and coding agents effectively, with appropriate testing and human review.
• Translate business requirements into clear implementation tasks and verifiable acceptance criteria.
• Design APIs, business logic, authentication, authorization, and third-party integrations.
• Manage database schemas, migrations, query performance, backups, and recovery procedures.
• Administer Linux servers, including application services, permissions, updates, networking, and troubleshooting.
• Build and maintain Docker environments, including container networking, persistent storage, configuration, and health checks.
• Manage DNS records, domain routing, TLS certificates, and reverse proxies.
• Maintain CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and appropriate build agents or runners.
• Carry out deployments with migration checks, rollback procedures, and post-deployment verification.
• Investigate production incidents and address their underlying causes.
• Coordinate outsourced developers and specialists, clarify requirements, review deliverables, and manage technical dependencies.
• Mentor developers through code reviews, practical demonstrations, and constructive feedback.
• Keep implementation proportionate to the problem, controlling unnecessary complexity, infrastructure costs, and maintenance overhead.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated senior-level experience delivering and maintaining production web applications.
• Strong frontend development skills using a modern framework, JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Strong backend development experience, including secure APIs, integrations, validation, and error handling.
• Practical experience integrating AI or LLM capabilities into software, including checking output quality, handling failures, and managing latency and usage costs.
• Substantial hands-on experience with AI coding assistants or agentic development workflows, with examples of working results you independently verified.
• Strong SQL and relational database experience, including migrations, indexing, performance analysis, and backup and recovery.
• Hands-on Linux administration and Docker deployment experience.
• A working understanding of DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, firewalls, ports, and reverse proxies.
• Practical CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and familiarity with Azure DevOps repositories, pipelines, and build agents.
• Strong Git, pull-request, code-review, and release-management skills.
• Previous experience leading a development team or coordinating technical delivery.
• Proven mentoring experience and the ability to explain technical decisions clearly.
• Experience working with outsourced developers, contractors, or distributed teams.
• The ability to work independently, prioritize competing needs, and make sound decisions with a limited startup budget.
• Interest in a long-term, full-time role with increasing responsibility.

Especially Valuable Experience

• Building products or engineering processes in an early-stage startup.
• Taking responsibility for several applications or services at the same time.
• Evaluating outsourced work for correctness, security, maintainability, and operational readiness.
• Developing AI agents, tool integrations, retrieval workflows, or reliable automation.
• Operating PostgreSQL and multi-service Docker environments.
• Establishing deployment standards, monitoring, incident procedures, and practical documentation.
• Helping junior developers become more effective through structured mentoring.

Growth, Responsibility and Compensation

Joining at this stage offers the opportunity to influence how we build software, organize delivery, and develop our engineering team.

Initial compensation will reflect our startup budget, your experience, and the agreed scope of responsibility. As your contribution and responsibilities grow alongside the business, we aim to provide substantial salary progression during the first few years.

For a strong contributor, the role can develop into positions such as Technical Lead, Engineering Lead, or Head of Engineering. Progression will depend on demonstrated results, leadership capability, company growth, and financial capacity. Compensation expectations and progression milestones will be discussed openly during recruitment.

What We Offer

• A fully remote, full-time role with a long-term perspective.
• Direct involvement in technical decisions across multiple products and initiatives.
• The opportunity to build, lead, and mentor a distributed engineering team.
• Broad ownership across software, AI integration, infrastructure, and delivery.
• Close collaboration with startup leadership.
• The potential for significant career and compensation growth as the company develops.

Remote Working Arrangement

Our remote working setup includes a time-tracking tool that records mouse-click and keyboard-activity metrics and captures screenshots of the screen. This monitoring is part of the working arrangement and will be explained during the recruitment process.

Applicants should be comfortable working with this setup.