Full Stack Developer & Systems Lead

This is not a typical full stack job. You will be the technical owner of everything that runs on electrons at our facility - from the application layer down to the network switch. Your largest ongoing responsibility is our custom operations platform (React frontend, FastAPI backend, NetSuite integration), which manages production, inventory, warehouse operations, and customer billing logic. This system was built using AI-assisted development workflows, and we expect it to continue being developed that way.

You will work directly with the Co-Founder who functions as the product owner and has deep involvement in functional design. You'll receive well-defined specifications, architecture documents, and clear business logic - your job is to ship, integrate, maintain, and improve. Over time, we are looking for you to take more and more ownership as you learn our business, developing ideas for new functionality and improvements to existing functionality.

What You'll Own

Application Development (Internal Systems)

• Ongoing feature development, bug fixes, and refactoring of our React/FastAPI platform
• Migration of proprietary production management system from cloud-hosted deployment to an on-site architecture with cloud sync and offline resilience (we have an architectural direction; you'll execute and refine it)
• NetSuite integration maintenance and expansion (REST/SuiteTalk, saved searches, custom records)
• EDI and middleware workflows (Celigo) connecting customers, NetSuite, and Internal System
• RFID infrastructure software integration (fixed readers, mobile/forklift readers, RFID label printing)

Industrial & Facility Systems Integration

• Partner with our PLC programming contractor to surface PLC and production-line data into production management system and other systems (OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT, or similar)
• AI vision camera deployment and management for production monitoring and quality applications
• Refrigeration monitoring and alerting integration (KE2 Therm controllers across 12 zones)
• Facility audio/visual systems (digital signage, automated audio alerts via webhooks)

IT Infrastructure & Networking

• Own the facility network: UniFi switching, wireless (including freezer/production environments), cameras, access control, and VoIP
• Server hardware for on-prem deployment: provisioning, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery
• Endpoint management, user accounts, and day-to-day IT support for office and floor staff
• Security posture across the network, applications, and physical systems

Requirements - Read These Carefully

We are deliberately strict on the items below and deliberately flexible on everything else.

Do you have experience in VLAN?, * AI-native development is your default mode. You have substantial, demonstrable experience using Claude Code (or equivalent agentic coding tools) as a core part of your daily workflow - not as autocomplete, but for architecture, implementation, debugging, and refactoring. You should be able to walk us through real projects you've shipped this way and articulate where AI tools excel and where they fail. If you're skeptical of AI-assisted development or treat it as a novelty, this is not your role.

• On-site, five days a week, in Dallas. You will be working with physical hardware - readers, cameras, controllers, servers, network gear, production equipment. This work cannot be done remotely, and we won't consider hybrid arrangements. If you're not genuinely excited to work in a manufacturing environment, please don't apply.
• Full stack shipping ability. You can independently take a feature from spec to production across a React frontend and Python backend, including database design, API design, and deployment.
• Systems-level comfort. You're at home in Linux, networking fundamentals (VLANs, DHCP, DNS, firewalls), and physical infrastructure. You don't need to be a network engineer - but you need to be unafraid of a switch closet, a server rack, or a config file.
• Extreme ownership and self-direction. You are the technology department. There is no senior engineer to escalate to, no IT helpdesk behind you. You diagnose, you decide, you fix. You communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders and you do what you say you'll do.

What we explicitly do NOT require:

• Prior experience with NetSuite, Celigo, RFID, PLCs, UniFi, or any specific tool in our stack. Modern AI tooling has changed the calculus: we care far more about your ability to rapidly learn and orchestrate unfamiliar technologies than about checkbox experience with any particular one.
• A computer science degree or any specific credential.
• A specific number of years of experience. We care what you've shipped, not how long you've been around., * Experience in manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, or another physical-operations environment
• Industrial protocol exposure (OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT) or SCADA/PLC familiarity
• ERP integration experience of any flavor
• Experience with offline-first or edge-sync architectures
• Home-lab tinkerers, hardware hobbyists, and people who fix their own stuff tend to thrive here

Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance, * Type: Full-time, W-2
• Compensation: Competitive salary commensurate with demonstrated ability
• Reports to: Co-Founder
• Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, * Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Mockingbird Food Group is a fast-growing food manufacturing and co-packing operation in Dallas serving national enterprise brands. We run a modern, technology-forward facility: a custom-built operations platform, NetSuite ERP, RFID-enabled warehouse infrastructure, AI vision cameras, automated refrigeration controls, and PLC-driven production equipment. We are a manufacturing company that operates like a software company - and we're hiring our first full-time developer to own that stack end to end.