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Lead Full-stack Engineer (Laravel/React)
Job Description
In this hands-on leadership role you’ll help design, build, and scale a core platform for an AI-powered business management product.
You’ll work across both frontend and backend of applications and mobile experiences, playing a direct role in shaping both the product and the tech stack.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a startup environment: fast-paced, high ownership, and focused on turning ideas into production-quality software.
Why This Role
- High ownership and direct product impact
- Real users, real scale, and meaningful problems
- Modern stack with AI-assisted development workflows
- Opportunity to help shape both product and engineering direction
- Competitive Salary depending on experience and monthly stipend for benefits
Location:
- Must be in the Greater-Phoenix area
- Work will be remote but possible plans for collaborative space to be located in Tempe next year
Compensation:
- Depending on experience but open to senior and lead engineers
- 175K-210K plus equity
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain a cloud-based platform across backend, frontend, and mobile
- Develop and ship features end-to-end across web and mobile applications
- Create scalable APIs and reusable UI components
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams
- Write tests, maintain documentation, and ensure system reliability
- Continuously improve performance, scalability, and development processes
Ideal candidate is someone who:
- has strong Laravel, React, Vue, Node, and preferably React-Native development experience and can lead mobile initiatives.
- is equally comfortable working on front-end and back-end development.
- can move between web and mobile as priorities shift in a fast-paced startup environment
Background Profile:
- 7+ years of mobile, software, and/or full-stack development experience
- Staff, Principal, Tech Lead experience preferred
- Experience with PHP (Laravel) and MySQL
- Solid experience with Vue, React, and NodeJS
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.)
- Experience deploying to AWS and working with serverless environments
- Hands-on, recent experience building and maintaining React Native apps preferred
- Experience with Expo, Xcode, and Android Studio
- Strong understanding of system design, security, and engineering best practices
- Proven ability to ship high-quality software quickly
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and fast-changing environments
- Experience with Agile/Scrum teams
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Startup, SaaS, or early-stage product experience strongly preferred
- Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder to be considered as no sponsorship is available for this role.
Meet Your Recruiter
Eric Posner
Senior Talent Finder and Account Manager
Recruiting since: 2008
Alma mater: Arizona State University
Driven by his long-standing desire to serve, you can count on Eric to go the extra mile and build a relationship that withstands the test of time. As a Senior Talent Finder and Account Manager at The Finders, he leverages his technical and business acumen to help companies identify the market’s preeminent infrastructure, developer, and senior leadership personnel. Plus, countless job seekers benefit from Eric’s career path expertise, as well as his highly effective candidate advocacy.
“I’ve always loved helping others. I worked in the restaurant industry for more than 15 years before falling in love with recruiting and many skills directly transferred, such as how to skill build, create rapport, multitask, work under pressure, communicate, understand people, and ensure that everyone has a positive experience.”
Spare time: Painting, outdoors, foodie
Sports: Arizona Cardinals, Phoenix Suns