Principal Full Stack Engineer

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🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

💵 $90 - $120 / hour

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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PhillyTech (SaaS Talent)

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🎯 Recruiter

Consulting • Marketing • Recruitment

PhillyTech (SaaS Talent) is a leading recruiting and talent acquisition firm focused on helping SaaS and tech startups hire top talent in the United States and Latin America. They specialize in sourcing, recruiting, and onboarding highly skilled professionals across various roles, including IT, product, sales, marketing, and finance. PhillyTech offers comprehensive services such as contingency recruiting, staff augmentation, and business development coaching. With over 25 years of experience, they provide strategic talent acquisition, helping companies scale, innovate, and maintain a competitive advantage in the rapidly evolving tech industry. Additionally, they host 'The SaaS Pulse Show,' a platform where tech leaders share expert insights.

📋 Description

• Lead a small engineering team by setting technical direction, mentoring developers, delegating work, running code and design reviews, coordinating contractors, removing blockers, and maintaining accountability for quality and delivery • Design and implement proprietary AI capabilities including retrieval and RAG pipelines, embeddings/vector search, persistent memory and member context, stateful workflows, tool use, orchestration, guardrails, and AI-driven personalization • Assess the production codebase for security vulnerabilities, scalability and performance bottlenecks, architecture risks, data protection concerns, and reliability issues • Prioritize and implement pragmatic improvements for a safe and stable public launch • Take ownership of the platform's technical health, stability, security, scalability, reliability, and continued evolution • Own features end to end from data modeling and architecture through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support • Work across the full stack with a strong backend focus and hands-on Vue.js frontend development • Serve as the internal technical counterpart to outside engineering partners by reviewing architecture and code, validating deliverables, and ensuring product, security, scalability, and production requirements are met • Partner with the existing platform engineer on technical knowledge transfer covering architecture, codebase knowledge, environments, infrastructure, accounts, deployment processes, documentation, and operational procedures • Design, automate, and execute functional, regression, load, and smoke testing • Design and evolve relational data models, PostgreSQL schemas, queries, indexes, migrations, and Prisma models • Work across integrations including Stripe Connect, LiveKit, Twilio, Zoom, Anthropic, and pgvector • Use AI coding agents to accelerate development while maintaining correctness, reliability, security, and maintainability

🎯 Requirements

• 8 to 12+ years of software engineering experience • Strong production experience with Vue.js • Deep hands-on experience with relational database design • PostgreSQL experience preferred • Experience with Nuxt and Prisma is a plus • Strong experience owning significant portions of a production platform across backend architecture, databases, APIs and integrations, infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support • Proven experience developing an AI-native SaaS product or substantial proprietary AI product capability from initial architecture through production launch and ongoing operation • Proven experience assessing production applications for security, scalability, reliability, and performance risks • Hands-on experience identifying vulnerabilities, protecting sensitive customer data, diagnosing bottlenecks, and implementing pragmatic improvements • Demonstrated technical leadership of small development teams, including hands-on mentorship, architecture reviews, work planning, coordination, and shipping results while personally contributing code • Experience reviewing and validating engineers' or external development partners' work, including architecture decisions, code quality, testing, security, scalability, and production readiness • Ability to quickly understand and contribute within an existing codebase and technical direction • Experience owning production readiness, including monitoring, incident troubleshooting, release processes, technical QA, and resolving critical production issues • Proven experience using AI coding agents on a production codebase • Extremely organized and self-sufficient, with ability to operate independently and make sound technical decisions in a fast-paced environment • Excited to work in a startup environment, with a track record of adapting to changing priorities and taking increasing technical ownership • Must be available within at least 5-6 hours of an 8-5 or 9-6 MST schedule • Position is not available in California, New York, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania

🏖️ Benefits

• Multiple medical insurance options • Employer contribution toward medical insurance premiums • Dental and vision insurance options • Supplemental life insurance • Voluntary short-term and long-term disability insurance • 15 days of PTO annually • 7 paid company holidays • Access to company-certified coaches and personal development opportunities • Opportunities to attend company live events • Travel and leisure membership benefits • Opportunity to transition into a full-time W2 position with benefits after 3 months, based on performance