Full-Stack Software Engineer
Summary
DroneSight is hiring its first engineer to work directly with the founder on Android/iOS apps, a web app with an interactive drone-detection map, backend services, and internal tools for its networked Remote ID receiver hardware. A generalist full-stack role, 100% remote, requiring significant daily overlap with US Eastern Time.
- Improve and extend our Android and iOS apps: fix bugs, improve stability, and ship new features.
- Develop and maintain our web application, interactive detection map, and backend services.
- Build features involving maps, drone detections, user accounts, sensor management, historical data, and data visualization.
- Work with embedded software running on our networked Remote ID receivers.
- Build internal tools for device provisioning, fleet monitoring, diagnostics, and customer support.
- Investigate performance and reliability issues across devices, networks, backend, and apps.
- Turn product ideas and user feedback into working software, working directly with the founder.
- Write tests and documentation appropriate to each system.
- Use AI-assisted development tools while staying responsible for quality, security, and correctness.
Fluent written and spoken English. You will work daily with our US-based founder and need to explain technical decisions and trade-offs clearly.
- 3+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong experience building production web applications, backend services, or mobile apps.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, and the ability to pick up others quickly.
- Experience with APIs, databases, Git, testing, and production systems.
- Ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and make progress independently.
- A practical, product-oriented mindset: you care whether the whole system works reliably for users.
- Experience using AI coding tools effectively, including reviewing, testing, and correcting AI-generated code.
- Availability for significant daily overlap with US Eastern Time.
- 15 paid vacation days per year + 10 paid US public holidays
- 100% remote
- First engineering hire: real ownership and direct work with the founder
- Hands-on work with hardware, drones, and IoT