Zapata Quantum

Full-stack Engineer

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for a small engineering team, setting technical direction and supporting the team’s execution and delivery.
• Design, architect, build, and continuously improve a modern, interactive web application, including selecting appropriate frameworks, system architecture, and technical approaches.
• Lead architectural and product-related technical decisions, exercising independent judgment when evaluating tools, technologies, tradeoffs, and design patterns.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for software design, code quality, testing, documentation, security, and maintainability.
• Mentor and support other engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, collaborative problem-solving, and constructive feedback.
• Break complex initiatives into clear technical plans, coordinate engineering priorities, and help ensure projects are delivered on time and to a high standard.
• Independently analyze complex technical problems and develop scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Design and implement backend systems, data models, APIs, and integrations that support complex application functionality.
• Design and develop clean, intuitive user experiences for navigating and interacting with complex technical content.
• Integrate AI-enabled features such as intelligent search, recommendations, contextual assistance, and other emerging application capabilities.
• Collaborate with product, design, domain experts, and company leadership to translate business and user needs into practical technical solutions.
• Remain actively involved in software development while balancing individual contributions with leadership of the broader engineering effort.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development tools, when they can meaningfully improve productivity, quality, or application performance.

Lead Full-Stack Engineer