Senior Full Stack Engineer

• Design, build, and ship full-stack features end to end - database schema, backend APIs, and frontend UI - at a senior level of ownership and code quality

• Make and document architecture decisions (ADRs) for the platform, not just individual features

• Set and enforce engineering patterns - auth, data access, delivery, privacy - that every subsequent app on the platform reuses

• Integrate third-party/bought services (identity, payments, email, analytics, LLM vendors) rather than building them in-house

• Build and maintain backend services and REST/GraphQL APIs with clean, documented interfaces

• Review code and mentor less experienced engineers as the team grows

• Deploy and monitor applications on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), with real ownership of production reliability

• Work directly with founders to translate product and architecture decisions into working software under real deadlines

• Debug and resolve production issues across the stack, including the ones with no obvious owner

• Own privacy- and security-relevant design decisions - data retention, encryption, access boundaries - as first-class engineering work, not an afterthought

• 5+ years of professional full-stack development experience, including time spent owning architecture decisions, not just implementing tickets

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, with deep hands-on experience in a modern frontend framework (React or Next.js preferred)

• Solid backend experience with Node.js (Express/Nest) and/or Python (FastAPI/Django/Flask), including designing services from scratch

• Strong command of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) - schema design, query performance, migrations, and data integrity under concurrent load

• Experience building and consuming REST APIs; familiarity with GraphQL is a plus

• Real production experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and DevOps fundamentals - CI/CD, containers (Docker), infrastructure as code, environment/secrets management

• Version control fluency (Git) and experience setting code review and branching standards for a team, not just following them

• A genuinely dynamic background: exposure to multiple domains, stacks, company sizes, or project types (agency, startup, freelance, or varied employer history all count)

• Comfortable working fully remote and independently, owning ambiguous problems end to end, and communicating clearly with non-technical founders

• Track record of making sound trade-off calls with limited information - and explaining the reasoning, not just the decision

Nice to Have

• Experience integrating LLM/AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) into production applications, including evals, prompt versioning, or guardrails

• Familiarity with authentication/identity providers (e.g., WorkOS, Auth0, Clerk) and OAuth2 flows

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu) and container-orchestrated deploys (ECS or similar)

• Experience designing privacy-by-design systems - per-record encryption, data retention policies, least-privilege access

• Prior experience as a technical lead, founding engineer, or first hire at an early-stage startup or consultancy

• Basic design sensibility - comfortable shipping clean, usable UI without heavy hand-holding from a designer

• Full-time remote role, with real architectural ownership from day one

• Direct influence over the patterns every future app on the platform will inherit

• A fast-moving, builder-first environment with minimal bureaucracy

• Competitive compensation, commensurate with experience

Raochra is a sensemaking consultancy - we help founders and leaders close the “Clarity Gap” between what a project is assumed to need and what it actually needs, before strategic engagements begin. We’re now building that diagnostic discipline into software, starting with Intent Check, an anonymous-by-design product that surfaces real misalignment without ever linking an answer to a person. Engineering here means production rigor as much as product craft: twelve-factor services, infrastructure as code, one deployable artifact promoted by digest, and privacy engineered into the architecture rather than bolted on., Raochra is hiring a remote Senior Full Stack Engineer to help lead the build of Intent Check, our first platform app, and to set the patterns - auth, delivery, data, privacy - every app after it will inherit. Stack: Next.js/TypeScript on the front end, Node/Postgres on the back, deployed on AWS. This is a senior, high-trust role: you’ll own architecture decisions as much as code, work directly with the founders with no layers of process in between, and be expected to spot the gaps - in the data model, in a security boundary, in an assumption no one wrote down - before they become production problems. A dynamic background spanning varied stacks, industries, or company sizes is a real asset: we need someone who orients fast on ambiguous, high-stakes problems rather than waiting for a fully-specified ticket.