Lead Full Stack Engineer

The role

You will lead engineering for one or more initiatives, architect the stack, and write clean code. You will work with product managers, designers, and engineers to take products from idea to production.

What you will do

• Lead engineering for one or more initiatives
• Architect the stack
• Write clean code
• Work with product managers, designers, and other engineers to take products from idea to production
• Work with startup founders to build MVPs
• Build internal AI tools
• Help grow the team and interview future candidates
• Mentor other engineers

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, including leading projects or people
• Experience with end-to-end product development, from idea to production
• Growth mindset: able to quickly learn new languages, frameworks, and more
• Comfortable communicating in English, written and verbal
• Frontend experience: TypeScript, React
• Backend experience: TypeScript or Python, Node.js or FastAPI
• Experience with databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc)
• Ability to accurately estimate timelines and scope

Nice to have

• Experience using AI tools for coding (e.g. Cursor)
• Experience building products using Generative AI / LLMs (e.g. using OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, prompt engineering, RAG, etc)
• Things you've built that you'd like to show us — work projects, open source, or side projects

Benefits

• Support work-life balance

About the company

Sierra Studio is a product development company with a focus on AI. They create products across all areas of software including web, mobile apps, and AI and large language models.