Full-Stack Software Engineer (Node.js)

The role
You’ll work directly alongside our two-person core engineering team to design, build, and ship features across our platform — a microservices Node.js codebase (Hapi.js APIs, Sequelize/PostgreSQL, Google PubSub, PM2) with a React/Redux frontend.

This is a build-and-own role. We’re looking for someone who can take a problem from a rough idea to a shipped, working feature without hand-holding — scoping it, building it, testing it, and getting it out the door.

Projects you might own in your first year

Third-party integrations — e.g., syncing gift cards with Shopify, or building a Faire integration to sync wholesale orders into the platform
Sales tax enhancements to keep merchants compliant as they grow
Stripe billing integrations for subscription and payment flows
Inventory counting tools that make stock-takes faster and less painful for store staff …and plenty more — we don’t run out of interesting problems
Who you are
You ship. You can take a project to completion independently and deliver it end-to-end.
You thrive in a startup — comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration, and wearing multiple hats.
You have an entrepreneurial, ownership mindset — you think about the business outcome, not just the ticket.
You’re not afraid to talk to customers. You see talking to merchants as the fastest way to build the right thing, not a distraction from coding.
You write simple, clean, maintainable code and value readability over cleverness.

Requirements
Strong proficiency in JavaScript/Node.js and building backend services
Comfortable with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and an ORM (we use Sequelize) Experience building or consuming REST APIs and integrating with third-party services (payments, webhooks, OAuth, etc.) Solid front-end skills with a modern framework (we use React/Redux) Sound grasp of Git and collaborative development workflows Able to debug across a distributed system and reason about data flow between services Available during our core hours, 12:00–3:00 PM ET, every workday (otherwise flexible)

Nice to have
Experience with retail, e-commerce, or ERP systems
Familiarity with payments/billing (Stripe), messaging (Twilio/SendGrid), or accounting (QuickBooks) integrations
Experience with microservices, message queues (PubSub/Kafka), or event-driven architecture
Exposure to sales tax / compliance tooling
Experience with iOS development with Swift / an interest in learning None of these are dealbreakers — if you’re a strong engineer who learns fast, we’ll get you up to speed.