#8007 Smartest Platform Engineer Who Hasn't Had Their Shot Yet

We're building something big and special. We need one hungry, full-time engineer who makes sure that what we build actually works, every day, for every user. One AI. One platform. Every market. We're not building a CRUD app. We're building infrastructure that scales to millions of users across 20+ integrated portals sharing one database, one auth system, one payment system, and one AI layer. Building fast is the easy part. Proving it works, shipping it and keeping it running is the hard part, and that is this job. We're looking for one engineer who wants to own that and grow with us long-term. This is not a job for someone who needs hand-holding or asks "how do I do this" or spending hours on Google and Stack Overflow when AI and documentation can solve it in minutes. This is a job for someone who has been building things on their own, learning on their own, and hasn't had the right opportunity yet. This is a job for someone who is a problem solver. Someone who has figured out that AI can force-feed your skillset and let you do things at the speed of 10 traditional coders. Someone who is driven and hungry for that one break that can open up the world. The role: Platform Engineer (tests, releases and production) You own the road from "it works on my machine" to "it works for every user, every day". Nothing is done until it is in production, tested and monitored. • Make CI block every merge that breaks a test, and keep the test suite green and honest. • Write route tests for every page of every portal, and run the end-to-end scenarios before each release. • Run releases one portal at a time, and keep the development and production branches identical. • Watch production: errors, slow pages, scheduled jobs, costs, backups and restore drills. When something breaks, you know before a user tells us. What you'll be working with: Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase (PostgreSQL, RLS), Drizzle, Stripe Connect, GitHub Actions, Vitest, Playwright, Upstash Redis, Vercel, Cloudflare R2. What we don't care about: • Your degree • Your years of experience • Whether you've worked at a big company • When you work during the day, as long as you get the hours in and push for progress at a steady pace What we actually care about: • You write TypeScript and Node on the backend (Next.js a plus), and you know PostgreSQL and migrations • You've set up CI yourself (GitHub Actions or similar) and written the tests that make it mean something (Vitest, Playwright or similar) • You've built something real people used, that broke, and that you fixed. We will ask how you found out • You think in systems, not just endpoints • You use AI every single day, all day. You hate the idea of going back to writing code the old way now that you've embraced AI • You say "not done" when it is not done • You want a long-term home where your work matters What we expect: • That you consistently go the extra mile. • That you have opinions and are not afraid to express them What you get: • Long-term engagement • Real ownership of how we ship and run everything • A front-row seat building a platform that aims to compete with the biggest marketplaces in the world • The chance to prove what you can do • A career-defining opportunity from day one, with bragging rights to match • The chance to be part of something special from the very beginning Compensation: $250 USD/month. Long-term engagement with room to grow as the platform grows. Hours: Full time, 40 hours a week. This has to be your main job. We do not want applications from anyone who plans to do this part-time or as a second job. To apply: Tell us what you've built. Show us something real: a repo where CI stops a bad merge, and the story of one production failure you handled. Answer the screening questions. We're not looking for the most experienced person in the room. We're looking for the smartest person who hasn't had their shot yet.