Senior Founding Engineer (Full Stack)
About The Position
FlightCast is trying to make running a video podcast not suck! We’re building tech to make publishing video and audio everywhere one-click, and bringing all your analytics and ads under one roof. We’re co-founded by Steven Bartlett - Diary of a CEO - the second largest podcast in the world. We are purpose-built to help make the largest podcasts even bigger. MISSION Help scale FlightCast from an early-stage creator platform into the best infrastructure for video-first podcast publishing and analytics. With weekly guidance from our CTO, you will work largely solo to build major features, improve system architecture, and scale the platform so it can support both individual creators and enterprise podcast teams. This role is about building product pieces end-to-end, shipping meaningful product improvements quickly, and helping transform the platform from a strong V1 into a world-class V2 and beyond.
Requirements
- You’ve used TypeScript, React and Next.js a lot, and have some experience with React Query, tRPC, and Drizzle/Prisma.
- Experience with Golang or Kubernetes (Our media system runs on this stack)
- Experience building or working with large scale analytics data systems such as ClickHouse or Tinybird (we use Tinybird)
- You’ve built several, full-stack SaaS applications, by yourself, from idea to launch.
- You code in your free time, and read/watch programming content.
- You can dig into the code yourself (or with AI), figure out how things work, then build improvements and new features end-to-end.
- You have experience building at early-stage startups and shipping production software to real customers.
Nice To Haves
- Bonus points for familiarity with Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects.
- Bonus Points: You have been a CTO or technical founder at a prior startup.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable systems for creators and enterprise users
- Develop complex functionality such as publishing workflows, analytics pipelines, permissions systems, and media processing.
- Upgrade core platform architecture
- Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability across the codebase as the product scales.
- Reduce engineering bottlenecks
- Own technical areas end-to-end so work can move faster without constant oversight from the CTO.
- Improve the overall developer experience
- Help evolve the codebase from early product architecture into a clean, scalable system that the team can build on easily.
- Ship meaningful product improvements quickly
- Build and release new features that improve how creators publish, manage, and analyse their content.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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