Founding Technical Lead - Full Stack Engineer
Compensation: $80k – $150k • 2.0% – 3.0%
The Role Marquee is building the professional identity platform for human opportunity. We're currently in beta and preparing for public launch.
We're looking for a Founding Technical Lead who has built 0→1 and scaled — someone who understands what it takes to turn an early product into a production-grade platform built for growth.
You'll take technical ownership of Marquee as we move from founder-built beta to launch and scale. You'll inherit a working product and partner directly with the founder to evolve the architecture, build a strong and scalable data foundation, ship new product and AI capabilities, and ultimately build the engineering function.
This is a deeply hands-on role for someone who can move comfortably between product, code, architecture, AI and data. Strong database and data infrastructure experience is critical. Production AI/LLM experience is required.
What You'll Own -Technical architecture and engineering roadmap -Evolution of the existing beta into a scalable, production-grade platform -Database architecture, data modeling, data infrastructure and performance -Backend systems, APIs and infrastructure -Search, discovery, matching and AI-powered product capabilities -Security, authentication, permissions and data integrity -Performance, reliability, testing and observability -Technical decisions around what to keep, rebuild, buy or integrate -Engineering standards, CI/CD and how we ship -Hiring and leading additional engineers as the company grows
Our Stack -Frontend: Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS -Backend / Infra: Vercel, serverless + edge functions, TypeScript -Data & Auth: Supabase, Postgres, Auth, RLS -AI: Anthropic Claude API The stack is a starting point. You'll have meaningful ownership over how the architecture evolves as we scale and optimize.
What You Bring -6+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in startups or high-growth products -Experience building products 0→1 and taking them through meaningful scale -Strong full-stack engineering and systems architecture experience -Deep understanding of relational databases, data modeling, PostgreSQL and the data infrastructure required to support a growing product -Experience designing and evolving systems for meaningful scale -Strong TypeScript / React / modern web development experience -Production experience building and shipping AI/LLM-powered products -Experience with search, discovery, matching or other data-intensive products is a strong plus -Strong understanding of APIs, authentication, security and cloud infrastructure -Experience establishing CI/CD, testing, monitoring and production engineering practices -Excellent product judgment and comfort making pragmatic technical decisions -Comfortable being deeply hands-on now and building a team over time -High-EQ leader who can scale an engineering organization
Bonus Points -Next.js App Router + Vercel at production scale -Supabase / Postgres / RLS depth -Consumer, marketplace, network or creator product experience -Search or recommendation systems experience -You've established the engineering playbook for a small team
A note on fit: This is not a role for someone looking to learn AI on the job. You should have already shipped AI/LLM functionality into a real production product and be comfortable making architectural decisions about how AI, application logic and data work together.
Founder will be in touch if you are a fit, and schedule interviews for late September. This role will start on a contract basis as we prepare for launch.