Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (SDE II)

Lead Product Engineer - Pod Captain 

A Little Bit About the Role

There is a version of this role that attracts the wrong person: a senior engineer who wants a title upgrade and a slightly bigger scope. That person will struggle here. The Lead PE is not a promotion for being a great individual engineer. It is a fundamentally different job.

Your success at this level is measured entirely by what your Island delivers — not by the quality of your own code. You will still write code, often the hardest and most risk-laden on the project: auth systems, payment integrations, data migrations, the things nobody else should touch. But that is a fraction of the role. The majority is managing delivery, owning the client relationship on the technical side, unblocking engineers before problems compound, and making scope calls under pressure with incomplete information.

You are also the technical and commercial bridge between your Island and the client. You own every piece of technical communication that goes to them — what is being built, what risks exist, what the honest timeline is. When a client pushes for something technically unsound, you push back directly and professionally, always with an alternative. When something breaks in production, you own the post-mortem process and the client receives it within 24 hours. You protect your team from unfiltered client pressure; you translate it into clear, actionable direction instead.

On top of delivery and client management, you are the AI operating standard for your Island. Every engineer on your pod uses Cursor and Claude within the rules you define. You set those rules before the first line of code is written, govern how they evolve, and you are accountable when AI-generated code ships without being understood.

If you are energised by all of that — by the accountability, by owning outcomes rather than tasks, by the combination of technical depth and people management — this role will suit you well. If you want to spend most of your time in code, this is not the right level.

AI Governance Expectation

You set the AI standard for your entire Island. If an engineer on your pod is shipping AI-generated code they do not understand, or underusing AI tools entirely, both are your problem to fix — not theirs alone.

At Lead level, AI governance means:

• Authoring the .cursorrules file before the first PR is opened. This defines how every engineer on the team writes code, uses Cursor, and structures prompts. You update it as the team learns, and you submit it to the Fountane Mainland at the close of every engagement.
• Evaluating new AI tools before they reach client code. You are the gate. A tool that looks useful in a demo can create untraceable technical debt in production. You decide what enters the workflow.
• Governing prompt discipline across the team: scoped prompts, codebase context hygiene, no AI-generated code that the author cannot explain line by line.
• Using Claude for architecture reasoning, sprint planning, risk documentation, and client-facing technical communication — not just Cursor for code generation. AI works at every layer of the Lead role, not just the coding layer.
• Staying ahead of the Golden Stack. You should know what Cursor and Claude can and cannot do at the codebase level better than anyone on your Island. When the Mainland updates the standard toolchain, you integrate the change into your Island’s workflow first.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Architecture & Standards Ownership

Design the full-stack architecture for every engagement before the first sprint starts: service boundaries, API contracts, database schema, state management strategy across web and mobile surfaces, and the security baseline. Author the .cursorrules file that governs how the entire Island writes code and uses AI. Own the highest-risk code personally — auth systems, payment integrations, live data migrations — these are not delegated regardless of workload. Enforce Mainland security standards across the entire codebase: input validation, correct auth scoping, safe data handling. If a security issue reaches production that was visible in a PR, that is a failure you own.

CE Prototype Gatekeeping

Review every Concept Engineer prototype before any engineer touches it. This is not a courtesy review — you have veto authority. If the scope is technically unrealistic for the sprint, the architecture is unbuildable as specified, or the prototype makes promises the codebase cannot keep, the sprint does not start until those are resolved. The time to surface a structural problem is before it is built, not after it is demoed. Produce a written checklist verdict for every prototype review — approved, approved with conditions, or blocked with reasons.

Client Technical Communication & Scope Ownership

Own all technical communication with the client directly. This means: what is being built each sprint, what risks exist and what is being done about them, honest timelines when estimates change, and clear explanations of technical decisions in plain language. Push back on risky or scope-expanding requests professionally and always with an alternative — “we cannot do X because Y; here is what achieves the same outcome.” Manage scope creep actively: every request that expands the engagement goes through you, gets assessed for impact, and is either absorbed, priced, or declined with a rationale. Renewal conversations are yours to lead in coordination with the CE.

Island Integration Audit

When a prospective client wants fractional augmentation — one or two roles rather than a full Island — you conduct the Island Integration Audit. This means evaluating their existing engineering team against Fountane Mainland SOPs: coding standards, AI tool usage, deployment practices, and documentation quality. If they pass, fractional deployment proceeds. If they do not, you produce a written audit report that either recommends full Island deployment or a Mainland upskilling programme. You are protecting your team’s velocity — a fractional deployment into a dysfunctional team destroys it.

Delivery & Velocity Management

Review the work cycle board every morning. Flag anything stuck, stale, or at risk before it becomes a client problem — not after. Communicate risks to the CE proactively with options, not just problems. Track every engineer’s billing hours: a shortfall spotted on Wednesday is a Thursday conversation, not a Friday surprise. If an engineer is consistently under-billing, that is either a workload problem, a capability problem, or a motivation problem — each has a different resolution and you are responsible for diagnosing which one it is.

Production Incident Ownership

When something breaks in production, you own the resolution process end to end: take technical lead, make the call on rollback vs. hotfix, communicate status to the client directly if the incident affects them, and own the post-mortem. The client receives the post-mortem within 24 hours of resolution — this is a hard commitment, not a target. The post-mortem covers: what happened, why it happened, what was done to fix it, and what structural change prevents recurrence. You produce it; it is not delegated to the engineer who caused the issue.

Automation & Infrastructure Boundary Arbitration

The Automation Engineer owns the test gates within the CI/CD pipeline. The Infrastructure Engineer owns the pipeline configuration itself. When these overlap and conflict — which they will — you arbitrate. The resolution must be documented in the Island’s .cursorrules and SOP onboarding document so the boundary does not need to be relitigated every sprint. This is not optional housekeeping; an unresolved boundary between these two roles is one of the most common sources of deployment failures on Islands.

Full Stack Ownership — Web & Mobile

You review and own work across the entire application layer: React / Next.js web frontends, React Native or Flutter mobile apps, Node.js / Python backends, and database schema. You cannot delegate a review of mobile code because you do not know mobile, or backend code because your background is frontend. If there is a gap in your full-stack depth, that is something to resolve before taking this role, not on the job.

People Management & Mentoring

Hold bi-weekly 1:1s with every engineer on the Island — focused on growth, blockers, and career direction, not status updates. Status belongs on the board; 1:1s are for the person. Address performance gaps early, directly, and specifically: a pattern spotted in week two is a conversation in week two, not month three. Protect the team from unfiltered client anxiety — absorb it, process it, and give the team clear direction instead of noise. If an engineer is struggling, that is your problem to solve before it becomes the client’s problem to notice.

Network Contribution

At the close of every engagement, submit to the Fountane Mainland: the .cursorrules file, all prompt templates used, a short retrospective on what worked and what did not, and any reusable patterns or scripts developed during the engagement. This is a Lead-level obligation, not a nice-to-have. The network’s collective capability grows through what Leads bring back from the field. An engagement that ends without a Mainland submission has left the network no smarter than it was before.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two years in a role where you were accountable for delivery outcomes — not just your own code. You should be able to describe an engagement where something went wrong on your watch, what you did about it, and what you would do differently. If your experience is entirely individual-contributor, this role will be a difficult fit.
• Genuinely full stack across web and mobile: React / Next.js, React Native or Flutter, Node.js or Python, and database architecture including schema design and migrations. You review and own work across all of these surfaces — not just the ones you are most comfortable in.
• Hands-on, daily Cursor and Claude usage with the ability to set and enforce standards for how a team uses them — not just personal proficiency. You should be able to describe the .cursorrules file you would write for a standard SMB engagement and explain the decisions behind it.
• Proven ability to communicate technical risk and decisions directly to non-technical clients — not through a PM, directly, in plain language. You should be able to describe a client pushback you navigated and how you handled it.
• Experience managing scope on a real engagement: a client who wanted more than was in the contract, and how you resolved it without damaging the relationship or the team’s velocity.
• Has conducted security-aware architecture design: auth systems, input validation, safe data handling. You should be able to describe a security decision you made and why.
• Has led or coordinated a small engineering team — run 1:1s, addressed performance gaps, made scope calls under pressure. Management experience at a staffing agency or outsourcing firm counts if the accountability was real.
• Comfortable having direct, specific performance conversations early — not after the situation has compounded. You should be able to describe a time you addressed a performance issue at the first sign rather than waiting.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

About Fountane

Fountane is a technology ventures lab - one part product studio, one part startup engine. We build high-quality software and AI products for clients ranging from fast-moving startups to large enterprises, and we co-build and invest in new companies when we see the right opportunity.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Minneapolis, we have grown to 60+ people across four continents and were recognised as one of America’s fastest-growing companies, ranking No. 699 on the Inc. 5000 with 595% three-year growth.

We are serious about craft, direct about expectations, and operate at the frontier of AI-assisted engineering. Lead PEs here carry real authority and real accountability — over delivery, over people, and over client outcomes. If that combination is what you are looking for, this is the place.

Senior Agentic Engineer — Ai1 Platform (Operations)

Team: Operations · Type: Full-time · Location: Fully remote (global, async-first)

Who we are

MyZone AI builds and runs Ai1 — a managed, multi-agent AI platform that gives each client their own isolated, always-on team of AI agents working across the channels and tools they already use. We're a small, AI-first, high-trust team that ships like a much bigger one. We work fully remote and async — what you ship and how clearly you write matter more than your hours.

The role

You'll join the Operations team. 

• Agentic engineering — complex agent skills and workflows, multi-agent orchestration, custom integrations, and the prompting and guardrails that make autonomous agents reliable.

What you'll do

Build agents that do real work

• Design complex, reusable skills and multi-step recipes that automate entire business processes — production automations, not demos.
• Architect multi-agent workflows: delegation, parallel execution, and agents that hand off and reassemble work.
• Build custom MCP connectors and API integrations for any tool that doesn't have one yet.
• Engineer robust prompts, human-in-the-loop controls, and built-in QA so automations are safe to run autonomously.
• Ship automations as self-contained installers that deploy across many client instances with zero rework.

Own application code end-to-end

• Own one or more services in our modular platform (Node/Express backends, React frontends) — schema, API, and UI.
• Ship features across CRM, operations, pipeline, reporting, onboarding, assessments, and chatbots.
• Contribute to our Next.js portal (Next.js 15, TypeScript, Prisma, PostgreSQL).
• Keep your components healthy: clean migrations, green CI, solid tests.

Set the bar

• Work clean: feature branches, real PRs, green CI, small changes, semantic versioning.
• Be security-conscious by default — credentials are treated like credit-card numbers; high-risk actions route through human review.
• Mentor, set patterns, and raise the team's technical level.

Who we're looking for

Must-haves

• 5+ years of professional software engineering with strong full-stack depth: Node.js / TypeScript and modern React.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents in production — tool/function calling, orchestration, memory, and evaluation. You've shipped something that uses an LLM to reliably do real work.
• Fluency with the Anthropic / Claude API (or equivalent) and real depth in prompt/context engineering.
• Strong with PostgreSQL and pragmatic API design.
• Able to own a service end-to-end and ship independently in a low-oversight, async environment.
• Excellent written communication and sound judgment around security and autonomous actions.

Bonus

• Built MCP connectors, agent frameworks, or similar orchestration layers.
• Next.js 15, Prisma, Vercel, monorepos (pnpm / Turborepo).
• Light DevOps: Linux VPS, PM2, nginx, CI.
• Used coding agents (Claude Code–style tools) to build real things.
• Integrations: Slack/Teams apps, Twilio, Google Workspace, GitHub.

How we work

Fully remote, global, async-first — no required location. Small, high-trust, and low-bureaucracy, so you'll own real work and thrive without hand-holding. Everyone here builds automations, versions their work, and maintains what they ship.

MyZone AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We hire the best person for the work, wherever they are.

Company Description

13kbs.com is a forward-thinking company committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower businesses to excel in the digital era. We bridge the gap between innovation and practicality, ensuring efficiency, security, and scalability at every step.

Our key services include AI-powered solutions, scalable full-stack development, cloud & AWS expertise, comprehensive firewall & compliance reviews, and automation testing. At 13kbs.com, we deliver high-impact solutions that align with the evolving demands of technology while maintaining a strong focus on privacy and reliability.

Role Description:

MERN Stack Developer (On-Site – Rajkot)

This is a full-time, on-site role for a MERN Stack Developer based in Rajkot. The developer will be responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining seamless user experiences using technologies such as MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js.

Daily responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features; writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code; debugging and optimising applications; and ensuring application scalability and security.

• Qualifications & RequirementsExperience: 1–3 years of hands-on experience in MERN stack development
• Proficient in: MongoDB/Postgres, React, and Node.js
• Front-end expertise: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Strong understanding of: RESTful APIs and web services
• Familiarity with: Git or other version control systems
• Experience with cloud services: Especially AWS
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Soft Skills: Strong problem-solving abilities and effective communication skills
• Language Requirement: Candidate must be able to understand and communicate in Gujarati
• Location: Must be based in Rajkot or nearby areas
• Work Type: Full-time, work from office only (no remote option)

Important Note

Only apply if you meet all the above criteria, including 1–3 years of experience, proximity to Rajkot, and Gujarati proficiency.

Must-Have:

- 5+ years React/Next.js experience

- 2+ years TypeScript

- AI API integration experience

- Supabase or similar BaaS platform

- PostgreSQL proficiency

Red Flags:

- No TypeScript experience

- Only frontend or only backend experience

- No AI/LLM integration background

- Unfamiliar with modern React patterns (Server Components, App Router)

Joining: Immediate

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

·      Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

·      Ability to design and document the product features, codes.

·      Self-driven and ability to take up ownership of things

·      Write clean code to develop functional applications, automation scripts, test cases

·      Troubleshoot and debug applications

·      Collaborate with developers, cross-functional teams to identify issue, new features and come up with solutions

·      Gather and address technical and design requirements

·      Provide training and support to internal teams

·      Build reusable code and libraries for future use

·      Ability to sync with other developers, designers to identify issues, new features and improvements

Requirements and skills:

·      Solid understanding of linux development environment and systems

·      Expert level knowledge of Python along with frameworks like Django, flask

·      Proficient in writing unit test cases using Pytest framework.

·      Expert level knowledge of SQL databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL

·      Good knowledge of design principles and databases

·      Knowledge of front technologies like Typescript, ReactJs

·      Knowledge of Caching techniques using Memcached and Redis

·      Experience of using queueing service line Kafka

·      Solid understanding of microservices architecture

·      Knowledge of AWS cloud services

·      Expert in serverless technologies like lambda along with API gateway

·      Knowledge of Git, Jira, CI/CD pipelines and containerization like docker

·      Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools like Grafana or Newrelic

Job Description

Job Purpose 

We work in the latest technology, and our foundations are data structures, algorithms, strong logical reasoning, and mathematics. We are looking for very strong engineers who love coding, optimizing, and making sure their code is the most efficient possible.

You will be involved with hardcore development. If you are an assembler of code or packages from different places to build something, you may not find our team to be the right fit.

You must be someone who can build anything from the ground up. Programming language should not be any barrier for you, as you should be able to pick up any programming language or underlying technology within a week.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Core development. Ready to participate in designing, brainstorming, and development process. You must give sleepless nights to meet deadlines whenever required.

Desired Candidate Profile

Essential Skills 

• Reliable, Accountable and Trustworthy
• Ability to understand software requirements based on a wireframe/program specification
• Familiarity with GoLang / PHP / Python / Java / C / C++ / Linux Shell and Scripting / HTML / CSS / JS / Node.js is a plus
• Effective communication skills to ensure smooth coordination of tasks with Team Leader
• Knowledge of MongoDB, MySQL, and PL/SQL is a plus
• Familiarity with ML, TensorFlow, and Keras is a plus
• Knowledge of web servers such as Apache, NGNIX, and the HTTP protocol is plus
• Knowledge of multi-process, threads, memory, and filesystem on Linux is desirable

Job Responsibilities

·        Responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to, the following.

·        Development experience 3-6 years

·        Experience working with Azure cloud-hosted web applications and technologies.

·        Design and develop back-end microservices and REST APIs for connected devices, web applications, and mobile applications.

·        Stay up to date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, and understand trends and opportunities that ensure we are using the best techniques and tools.

• Meeting with the software development team to define the scope and scale of software projects.
• Designing software system architecture.
• Completing data structures and design patterns.
• Designing and implementing scalable web services, applications, and APIs.
• Developing and maintaining internal software tools.
• Writing low-level and high-level code.
• Troubleshooting and bug fixing.
• Identifying bottlenecks and improving software efficiency.
• Collaborating with the design team on developing micro-services.
• Writing technical documents.
• Be an active professional in continuous learning resulting in enhancement in organizational objectives.
• Provide technical support to all internal teams and customers as it relates to the product.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or computer science.
• Previous experience as a full stack engineer and IoT Products.
• Advanced knowledge of front-end languages including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, React.
• Proficient in back-end languages including Nodejs and basic knowledge of Java, C#.
• Experience with cloud computing APIs and Cloud Providers such as Azure or AWS.

·        Working knowledge of database systems (Cassandra, CosmosDB, Redis, PostgreSQL)

·        Messaging systems (RabbitMQ, MQTT, Kafka)

·        Cloud-based distributed application scaling & data processing in the cloud

·        Agile / Scrum methodology

• Advanced troubleshooting skills.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks.
• Good communication skills.

High-level project management skills.

StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.

Why Work with Us:

• Get an opportunity to contribute to an exciting, forward-thinking and fast-moving Start-Up.

• Shape-Up your career by working with young and supportive teams and peers!

• Innovation and Creativity is all what matters!

• Experience and understand the startup which is transforming the video marketing industry.

• Friendly Policies, good-competitive salaries, Team Outings and what not!

Job Responsibilities:

• Building and scaling web products that directly impact our customers and partners.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and implement the same.
• Implement user interfaces in React alongside Node.js.
• Translate several RESTful data sources to be used in a front-end application.
• Dig into bugs and feature requests along with writing the tests.

Job Requirements:

• Should have minimum 2 years of experience in the respective field.
• Proficient knowledge of Node.js, Express.js, MySQL.
• You should know how to build scalable web apps.
• You should know how to build front-end components.
• Proficiency in JavaScript Development.
• Good understanding of micro-server architecture and REST API.
• Should be comfortable with HTML, CSS, and related technologies
• You should know why a framework is necessary.
• Proficient in code versioning tools like Git.

Are you excited at the possibility of developing an already stellar team to meet the growing needs of our platform and business? Does this opportunity to build a groundbreaking team and solve hard problems sound amazing to you? If so, we would love to have you onboard!*

Brownie Points For:

- Experience building/working on Chrome Extensions.
- Proficiency with Socket.io and/or Redis.
- Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Webpack.

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Cloud app development experience
• Strong Django and ReactJS experience
• Advanced knowledge of Python and relational databases
• Understanding of APIs, pagination, searching, sorting 
• Experience with building, modifying and extending API endpoints (REST or

GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.

• Creating high performance UI etc.
• Experience with SQL and NOSQL databases

• Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements

collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.

• Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and

influencing skills.

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.