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Senior Full-Stack & Platform Engineer

Gumball Digital · United States · 2 days ago
RemoteRemoteEngineeringFull-time

The Role

You’ll be the technical owner of our production platform from end to end. Applications
Your consumer survey and offer web applications running on AWS EC2.
You’ll build new features while keeping the platform fast under real production traffic, including:

  • Real-time offer serving
  • Lead capture
  • Event tracking
  • Customer-facing web experiences
Data Platform
You’ll own our high-traffic PostgreSQL database (Supabase, currently ~50GB and growing).
Responsibilities include:
  • Schemadesign
  • Query optimization
  • Index strategy
  • Performance tuning
  • Database reliability
  • Performance matters.
  • A single missing database index recently cost us thousands of dollars per day. We want someone who proactively owns performance before it becomes a business problem.
Infrastructure
You’ll own the production environment.
  • AWS EC2
  • Linux servers
  • Deployments
  • Monitoring
  • Logging
  • Observability
  • Performance
  • Uptime
Integrations
Maintain and improve integrations with systems including:
  • Everflow
  • TrustedForm
  • IPQ
  • Google APIs
  • Tracking pixels and postbacks
  • Internal AI tooling (our OpenClaw-based AI agent, Zelda)
What You’ll Own

What You’ll Own

  • Applications
  • Data Platform
  • Infrastructure
  • Integrations

What You’re Expected To Do In Your First 90 Days

  • Learning the complete survey → offer → revenue pipeline
  • Becoming the go-to technical owner of the production platform
  • Implementing meaningful monitoring and alerting for database and application health
  • Shipping at least one customer-facing feature
  • Delivering measurable improvements in reliability or performance

Required

  • 7+ years building and owning production web applications
  • Extensive PostgreSQL experience including indexing, query optimization, schema design, and troubleshooting under load (required)
  • Strong AWS, EC2, Linux, and production operations experience
  • Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and modern JavaScript front-end frameworks
  • Experience with API and systems integration
  • Experience building observable, reliable production systems
  • Comfortable owning systems independently in a small remote company
  • Excellent communication skills and a high level of accountability

Bonus Points

  • Experience with any of the following is a plus:
    • Performance marketing
    • Affiliate marketing
    • AdTech
    • Lead generation
    • Offer serving
    • Attribution systems
    • TrustedForm or consent platforms
    • High-volume web applications
    • AI-assisted software development
    • Observability and production monitoring
    • Taking legacy codebases from “working” to “well engineered”

We’re Looking For

  • Ownership
  • Autonomy
  • The opportunity to build systems that have an immediate business impact

Why This Role Is Different

  • This isn’t a ticket-taking engineering job.
  • You’ll own a real production platform that generates revenue every day.
  • You’ll have the freedom to make architectural decisions, improve reliability, and build new capabilities without navigating layers of management.
  • The scope is similar to what many engineers only experience as a technical founder, but with the stability of an established, profitable business.

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