Principal Software Engineer

What You'll Own

• End-to-end technical ownership of a high-revenue web platform and mobile app
• Architecture design and long-term technical strategy
• Server-side rendering pipeline using Node.js, Fastify 5, and React 19
• Data layer across MySQL and BigQuery
• GCP infrastructure including Cloud Run, Cloud Build, and Global Load Balancer
• Ad-tech integrations including Google Ad Manager, GTM, GTag, and GPT.js
• Performance optimization at scale, where every millisecond counts
• ML pipeline maintenance and optimization for ad-tech performance

Must-Have Qualifications

These are non-negotiable. Please only apply if you have strong, production-proven experience in all of the following:

• Node.js with TypeScript in production
• React in a server-side rendering context
• MySQL including database design, query optimization, and ORM usage
• BigQuery for querying and managing large-scale datasets
• GCP with hands-on experience in Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL, and Load Balancing. GCP certification is a significant bonus

Nice-to-Have Experience

• Ad-tech industry experience including ad serving, yield optimization, and programmatic advertising
• Affiliate marketing experience, particularly with Anura and Everflow
• Cloudflare including CDN configuration, caching strategies, and Workers
• Fastify, especially Fastify 5 patterns
• Flutter for mobile app contribution
• Golang or Rust for high-performance service work
• Machine learning applied to ad-tech optimization (not LLMs or agents)
• Experience in DeFi, crypto, NFT, blockchain, fintech, or healthcare verticals

About Working With Us

We are a small, senior team that moves fast and cares deeply about craft. You will have genuine ownership and direct influence over product and technical direction. No committee approvals, no lengthy processes, just high-autonomy contract work across interesting problems.

Benefits

• Fully remote work
• Flexible hours
• Paid vacation and sick days