Senior Full Stack Engineer – Community & Creator Platform
WorkFour — The National Campaign for the 4-Day Workweek
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Architect Multi-Tenant Infrastructure: You will own the "topography" of our platform routing. This means designing and implementing the systems for wildcard DNS and subdomain provisioning that ensure every creator has a performant, personalized home.
- Design Event-Driven Pipelines: Beyond just building APIs, you will architect the flow of data through AWS EventBridge, SQS, and Lambda. You’ll ensure our analytics and publishing pipelines are resilient, scalable, and future-proofed.
- Maintain & Evolve the Technical North Star: You will help define the architectural patterns the rest of the team follows. You aren't just building a feed; you are optimizing a social graph and real-time WebSocket architecture for high-signal interaction.
- AI-Native Engineering Leadership: As an AI-first company, you will set the bar for how we use Claude and Cursor. You’ll pioneer workflows that use AI to automate boilerplate, allowing you to focus on high-level system design.
- Drive Product Discovery: You are a partner, not an order-taker. You are expected to bring technical curiosity to every spec—probing for "unspoken" requirements like data consistency in real-time feeds or the downstream impacts of schema changes on creator analytics. You ask the questions that product and design haven't thought of yet.
Requirements
- 6+ Years Experience: Proven track record building consumer social apps or content publishing tools in fast-moving, high-agency environments.
- TypeScript Mastery: Deep expertise in Node.js, React, and relational database design. You write clean, type-safe code that balances speed with maintainability.
- Infrastructure Fluency: You are operationally self-sufficient. Proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation is a huge plus, as you’ll manage the cloud resources for your own services.
- Pragmatic Problem Solver: You know when to hit the primary database and when to use Redis for caching. You make smart trade-offs between "quick wins" and long-term improvements.
Benefits
- Competitive pay (we don't pay based on location, we assign value to the role)
- Equity in Workweek
- Remote operations with the ability to work in the time zone of your choice (or work IRL in our Austin, TX office)
- Unlimited PTO with a minimum of 3 days/quarter used
- 100% health insurance coverage, 75% coverage for dependents, and $150/month towards an HSA (or $150/month health stipend if insurance not used)
- 120 days of parental leave to use within one year of childbirth (available 12 months after your start date and only available every 365 days)
- 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
- $500 one-time stipend for any home office needs used after the first 90 days
- 5-week sabbatical after 4 years on staff
- 2 volunteering days per year
- 1x/year in-person team retreat
- $100/month book stipend
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptNode.jsReactrelational database designAWS EventBridgeSQSLambdaTerraformCloudFormationWebSocket architecture
Soft Skills
pragmatic problem solvertechnical curiosityleadershipcollaborationcommunication