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Founding Engineer

EngineeringRemote (US)full-timeSalary + meaningful equity$140k–$180k + equity

About the role

You'll be the first engineering hire after the founder. You'll work end-to-end on the Verdaxi platform — frontend, backend, data, infrastructure — and you'll have a direct, durable hand in the architectural decisions that compound for years.

This is not a role for someone who wants to be handed a ticket queue. The compliance product is live; the rest of the platform is on the roadmap. We need someone who can take a feature from "operator told us this hurts" to "shipped, audited, monitored" without a lot of intermediate process.

Tech stack

  • Nuxt 4 + Vue 3 + TypeScript
  • @nuxt/ui v4 (Tailwind v4)
  • PostgreSQL via Drizzle ORM
  • BetterAuth for auth
  • Cloudflare R2 / AWS S3 for files
  • Resend for email
  • Deployed to Cloudflare or AWS, opinions welcome

What you'll do

  • Build new compliance features end-to-end — schema, server routes, UI, tests, docs
  • Help shape the architecture of upcoming modules (operations, business operations, regulators)
  • Set engineering practices that scale beyond the two of us
  • Carry pager rotation (light, but real — we run production for paying customers)
  • Shape hiring as we add more engineers

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years building production web applications, ideally with a strong full-stack bias
  • Real experience in TypeScript, Vue or React, and a relational database
  • Demonstrated ability to make architectural decisions and explain why
  • Bias toward shipping, with the discipline to not ship the wrong thing
  • Experience in a regulated/compliance-mattered domain (healthcare, finance, life sciences, cannabis) is a major plus
  • Comfort working without a layer of product/design between you and the customer

What we offer

  • Competitive salary plus meaningful founding-engineer equity
  • Bootstrapped — the equity is in something that has to actually work, with no clock pressure to vaporize it
  • Health, dental, vision (full-time)
  • Flexible PTO, US-based, remote-first with periodic in-person team weeks
  • Real influence on what we build, how we build, and who we hire next

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